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Choir Matthew Wachtel Fantasia Paper Assigned 9/30/15 Due: 10/5/15
Fantasia was a musical movie full of triumphantly animated acting from the 1940’s. Yes, I said the 1940’s! Since it was in the 1940’s you wouldn’t have thought it would have had such good animation. This paper is going to explain the history of Fantasia. What was happening in the world at the time of the creation of Fantasia, and how well the audience liked it? My paper will explore the impact that Fantasia had on the people who watched it.

First off let’s look at why they made the movie Fantasia. It is hard to believe but Mickey Mouse was losing his popularity. For some reason even Popeye was more popular than Mickey …show more content…

Mr. Disney wanted to create some type of a silly but elaborate symphony that he would call The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Mr. Disney wanted to bring classical music to his young audience and hopefully create a love for it. Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” comes next. If you’ve seen the movie and don’t remember this scene you need to watch again because this was my favorite part being one the most entertaining, parts in the movie for me, for me it was entertaining because it was intense, and exciting. The next one is “The Pastoral Symphony” the one of the things I remember from this scene are the Pegasus, and another is all the mythical creature gathering with the wine god Bacchus to celebrate, all is well until Zeus decides to crash the party and start heaving lightning bolts at everyone. Next up was Amilcare Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours”, now when …show more content…

German dictator Adolf Hitler attacked Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and then France. He destroyed opposing forces with "blitzkrieg," a strategy that stresses surprise, speed, and overwhelming force using air planes and utilizes ground forces. U.S. unemployment rates soared higher than ever. CBS shows first colored television in New York City. New transportation, first multi-lane (super-highway) built. Congress passed several laws referring to national defense, including the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. Those allowed drafting, and training men for the army and navy, marines and National Guard. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected. The dictators of Germany, Japan and Italy join forces. The US advocates peace but starts supplying Britain aid to help that country defend itself. The first modern pesticides, electricity and indoor plumbing were made available for farmers. Farmers are hanging on during the Dust Bowl. According Rotten Tomatoes in 1940 Fantasia had an 8.6/10 rating and an eighty-three percent audience rating. Then in 1999, they made it again and called it Fantasia 2000.According to Rotten Tomatoes, the new movie got a slighter worse review of seventy-five percent which makes of an eight percent difference. Fantasia has grown in reputation over the years and is now widely

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