To gain inspiration in how the shapes would move, Hunt and his associates visited San Diego Zoo, a butterfly farm, and observed slow motion footage of bats. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised several of its sequences, while also deeming its overall quality uneven in comparison to its predecessor. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor acts as the film's Master of Ceremonies, who introduces each segment in live action interstitial scenes. In 1940, Walt Disney released Fantasia, his third animated feature film, consisting of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music. The eyes of the whales were drawn by hand, as the desired looks and glances were not fully achievable using CGI.

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The "Deluxe Edition" package included the film, a "making of" feature, a commemorative lithograph, a 16-page booklet, a two-disc soundtrack of the Stokowski score and a certificate of authenticity signed by Roy E. From the beginning of its development, Disney expressed the greater importance of music in Fantasia compared to his past work: "In our ordinary stuff, our music is always under action, but on this. Thus, she concluded that the film was "cruel", "brutal and brutalizing", and a negative "caricature of the Decline of the West.Featured in the crowd emerging from the hotel are depictions of Brooks Atkinson and Hirschfeld, along with his wife Dolly Haas.

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Introduced by Steve Martin, who gives a brief history on Fantasia 's original purpose, after which Itzhak Perlman introduces the segment proper.Since then, this marked the first time that a release of the film had been processed from the original and not from a copy.

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Fischinger, like Disney, was used to having full control over his work and was not used to working in a group. It features a variety of dances, just as in the original, but danced by animated fairies, fish, flowers, mushrooms, and leaves; no actual nutcracker is ever seen in this version. Fantasia dumps conventional formulas overboard and reveals the scope of films for imaginative excursion.

On September 28, 1996, The Firebird was the final piece to be recorded; its session lasted for three hours. The servant has been excised from all prints in circulation since 1969 (often by the use of pan and zoom, so the scene doesn't focus on her), although the clip has recently turned up on various blogs and internet media. However, for Night on Bald Mountain, he used Mussorgsky's original orchestration instead of Leopold Stokowski's own edition that was part of the original soundtrack. Thompson also claimed that the film depicted nature as being "titanic" while man was nothing more than "a moving lichen on the stone of time.