1 00:01:57,659 --> 00:01:59,702 How do you do? 2 00:01:59,787 --> 00:02:01,579 My name is Deems Taylor, 3 00:02:01,663 --> 00:02:04,832 and it's my very pleasant duty to welcome you here 4 00:02:04,917 --> 00:02:07,960 on behalf of Walt Disney, Leopold Stokowski 5 00:02:08,045 --> 00:02:11,631 and all the other artists and musicians whose combined talents 6 00:02:11,715 --> 00:02:16,093 went into the creation of this new form of entertainment, Fantasia. 7 00:02:18,305 --> 00:02:19,972 What you're going to see 8 00:02:20,057 --> 00:02:22,642 are the designs and pictures and stories 9 00:02:22,726 --> 00:02:25,895 that music inspired in the minds and imaginations 10 00:02:25,979 --> 00:02:28,439 of a group of artists. 11 00:02:28,524 --> 00:02:29,982 In other words, these are not going to be 12 00:02:30,067 --> 00:02:32,860 the interpretations of trained musicians. 13 00:02:32,945 --> 00:02:35,238 Which I think is all to the good. 14 00:02:35,322 --> 00:02:38,699 Now, there are three kinds of music on this Fantasia program. 15 00:02:38,784 --> 00:02:41,744 First is the kind that tells a definite story. 16 00:02:41,829 --> 00:02:44,831 Then there's the kind that, while it has no specific plot, 17 00:02:44,915 --> 00:02:48,501 does paint a series of, more or less, definite pictures. 18 00:02:48,585 --> 00:02:50,127 Then there's a third kind, 19 00:02:50,212 --> 00:02:53,381 music that exists simply for its own sake. 20 00:02:53,465 --> 00:02:56,509 Now, the number that opens our Fantasia program, 21 00:02:56,593 --> 00:03:00,137 the Toccata and Fugue, is music of this third kind, 22 00:03:00,222 --> 00:03:02,515 what we call absolute music. 23 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:07,103 Even the title has no meaning beyond a description of the form of the music. 24 00:03:07,187 --> 00:03:11,941 What you will see on the screen is a picture of the various abstract images 25 00:03:12,025 --> 00:03:14,026 that might pass through your mind 26 00:03:14,111 --> 00:03:17,697 if you sat in a concert hall listening to this music. 27 00:03:17,781 --> 00:03:20,575 At first you're more or less conscious of the orchestra. 28 00:03:20,659 --> 00:03:23,911 So our picture opens with a series of impressions 29 00:03:23,996 --> 00:03:25,872 of the conductor and the players. 30 00:03:25,956 --> 00:03:29,834 Then the music begins to suggest other things to your imagination. 31 00:03:29,918 --> 00:03:33,588 They might be, oh, just masses of color. 32 00:03:33,672 --> 00:03:37,091 Or they may be cloud forms or great landscapes 33 00:03:37,175 --> 00:03:42,138 or vague shadows or geometrical objects floating in space. 34 00:03:43,140 --> 00:03:44,599 So now we present 35 00:03:44,683 --> 00:03:48,936 the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, 36 00:03:49,021 --> 00:03:52,398 interpreted in pictures by Walt Disney and his associates, 37 00:03:52,482 --> 00:03:54,942 and in music by the Philadelphia Orchestra 38 00:03:55,027 --> 00:03:58,696 and its conductor, Leopold Stokowski. 39 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:48,660 You know, it's funny how wrong an artist can be about his own work. 40 00:13:48,745 --> 00:13:52,331 Now, the one composition of Tchaikovsky's that he really detested 41 00:13:52,415 --> 00:13:54,041 was his Nutcracker Suite, 42 00:13:54,125 --> 00:13:56,960 which is probably the most popular thing he ever wrote. 43 00:13:57,045 --> 00:14:00,214 It's a series of dances taken out of a full-length ballet 44 00:14:00,298 --> 00:14:01,548 called The Nutcracker 45 00:14:01,633 --> 00:14:04,927 that he once composed for the St. Petersburg opera house. 46 00:14:05,011 --> 00:14:08,430 It wasn't much of a success and nobody performs it nowadays, 47 00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:12,142 but I'm pretty sure you'll recognize the music of the Suite when you hear it. 48 00:14:12,227 --> 00:14:15,812 Incidentally, you won't see any nutcracker on the screen. 49 00:14:15,897 --> 00:14:18,106 There's nothing left of him but the title. 50 00:28:51,188 --> 00:28:55,108 And now we're going to hear a piece of music that tells a very definite story. 51 00:28:55,192 --> 00:28:57,902 As a matter of fact, in this case, the story came first 52 00:28:57,986 --> 00:29:01,364 and the composer wrote the music to go with it. 53 00:29:01,448 --> 00:29:05,493 It's a very old story, one that goes back almost 2,000 years. 54 00:29:05,577 --> 00:29:09,080 A legend about a sorcerer who had an apprentice. 55 00:29:09,164 --> 00:29:12,417 He was a bright young lad, very anxious to learn the business. 56 00:29:12,501 --> 00:29:15,086 As a matter of fact, he was a little bit too bright 57 00:29:15,170 --> 00:29:18,714 because he started practicing some of the boss's best magic tricks 58 00:29:18,799 --> 00:29:21,509 before learning how to control them. 59 00:29:21,593 --> 00:29:24,929 One day, for instance, when he'd been told by his master 60 00:29:25,013 --> 00:29:29,058 to carry water to fill a cauldron, he had the brilliant idea 61 00:29:29,143 --> 00:29:32,770 of bringing a broomstick to life to carry the water for him. 62 00:29:32,855 --> 00:29:35,606 Well, this worked very well, at first. 63 00:29:35,691 --> 00:29:38,943 Unfortunately, however, having forgotten the magic formula 64 00:29:39,027 --> 00:29:42,280 that would make the broomstick stop carrying the water, 65 00:29:42,364 --> 00:29:45,199 he found he'd started something he couldn't finish. 66 00:39:11,099 --> 00:39:14,601 Mr. Stokowski. Mr. Stokowski. 67 00:39:16,980 --> 00:39:19,898 My congratulations, sir. 68 00:39:19,983 --> 00:39:22,484 Congratulations to you, Mickey. 69 00:39:22,569 --> 00:39:24,403 Gee, thanks. 70 00:39:24,487 --> 00:39:27,740 Well, so long. I'll be seein' ya. 71 00:39:29,117 --> 00:39:30,617 Goodbye. 72 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:43,005 When Igor Stravinsky wrote his ballet, The Rite of Spring... 73 00:39:58,271 --> 00:39:59,730 I repeat, 74 00:39:59,814 --> 00:40:03,734 when Igor Stravinsky wrote his ballet, The Rite of Spring, 75 00:40:03,818 --> 00:40:07,154 his purpose was, in his own words, to "express primitive life." 76 00:40:07,238 --> 00:40:11,241 And so Walt Disney and his fellow artists have taken him at his word. 77 00:40:11,326 --> 00:40:14,161 Instead of presenting the ballet in its original form, 78 00:40:14,245 --> 00:40:19,041 as a simple series of tribal dances, they have visualized it as a pageant, 79 00:40:19,125 --> 00:40:23,087 as the story of the growth of life on Earth. 80 00:40:23,171 --> 00:40:25,506 And that story, as you're going to see it, 81 00:40:25,590 --> 00:40:28,008 isn't the product of anybody's imagination. 82 00:40:28,093 --> 00:40:32,179 It's a coldly accurate reproduction ofwhat science thinks went on 83 00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:35,557 during the first few billion years of this planet's existence. 84 00:40:35,642 --> 00:40:39,478 Science, not art, wrote the scenario of this picture. 85 00:40:39,562 --> 00:40:42,523 According to science, the first living things here 86 00:40:42,607 --> 00:40:44,983 were single-celled organisms, 87 00:40:45,068 --> 00:40:49,279 tiny little white or green blobs of nothing in particular 88 00:40:49,364 --> 00:40:51,698 that lived under the water. 89 00:40:51,783 --> 00:40:54,368 And then, as the ages passed, the oceans began to swarm 90 00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:56,662 with all kinds of marine creatures. 91 00:40:56,746 --> 00:40:59,790 Finally, after about a billion years, 92 00:40:59,874 --> 00:41:02,626 certain fish, more ambitious than the rest, 93 00:41:02,710 --> 00:41:06,672 crawled up on land and became the first amphibians. 94 00:41:06,756 --> 00:41:09,883 And then, several hundred million years ago, 95 00:41:09,968 --> 00:41:14,096 nature went off on another tack and produced the dinosaurs. 96 00:41:14,180 --> 00:41:17,141 Now, the name "dinosaur" comes from two Greek words 97 00:41:17,225 --> 00:41:19,268 meaning "terrible lizard." 98 00:41:19,352 --> 00:41:21,478 And they certainly were all of that. 99 00:41:21,563 --> 00:41:23,772 They came in all shapes and sizes, 100 00:41:23,857 --> 00:41:27,484 from little, crawling horrors about the size of a chicken 101 00:41:27,569 --> 00:41:30,737 to hundred-ton nightmares. 102 00:41:30,822 --> 00:41:32,906 They were not very bright. 103 00:41:32,991 --> 00:41:35,784 Even the biggest of them had only the brain of a pigeon. 104 00:41:35,869 --> 00:41:39,329 They lived in the air and water as well as on land. 105 00:41:39,414 --> 00:41:41,582 As a rule, they were vegetarians, 106 00:41:41,666 --> 00:41:44,334 rather amiable and easy to get along with. 107 00:41:44,419 --> 00:41:48,005 However, there were bullies and gangsters among them. 108 00:41:48,089 --> 00:41:51,508 The worst of the lot, a brute named tyrannosaurus rex, 109 00:41:51,593 --> 00:41:55,387 was probably the meanest killer that ever roamed the Earth. 110 00:41:56,264 --> 00:42:00,601 The dinosaurs were lords of creation for about 200 million years. 111 00:42:00,685 --> 00:42:04,354 And then... Well, we don't exactly know what happened. 112 00:42:04,439 --> 00:42:08,442 Some scientists think that great droughts and earthquakes 113 00:42:08,526 --> 00:42:11,862 turned the whole world into a gigantic dustbowl. 114 00:42:11,946 --> 00:42:15,782 In any case, the dinosaurs were wiped out. 115 00:42:15,867 --> 00:42:17,826 That is where our story ends. 116 00:42:17,911 --> 00:42:21,538 Where it begins is at a time infinitely far back, 117 00:42:21,623 --> 00:42:23,707 when there was no life at all on Earth. 118 00:42:23,791 --> 00:42:25,542 Nothing but clouds of steam, 119 00:42:25,627 --> 00:42:29,213 boiling seas and exploding volcanoes. 120 00:42:29,297 --> 00:42:33,258 So now, imagine yourselves out in space 121 00:42:33,343 --> 00:42:35,844 billions and billions of years ago, 122 00:42:35,929 --> 00:42:39,306 looking down on this lonely, tormented little planet, 123 00:42:39,390 --> 00:42:42,351 spinning through an empty sea of nothingness. 124 01:05:27,048 --> 01:05:29,925 And now we'll have a 15-minute intermission. 125 01:08:48,666 --> 01:08:51,043 Before we get into the second half of the program, 126 01:08:51,127 --> 01:08:53,587 I'd like to introduce somebody to you, 127 01:08:53,671 --> 01:08:56,632 somebody who's very important to Fantasia. 128 01:08:56,716 --> 01:08:59,051 He's very shy and very retiring. 129 01:08:59,135 --> 01:09:02,679 I just happened to run across him one day at the Disney studios. 130 01:09:02,764 --> 01:09:04,681 But when I did, I suddenly realized 131 01:09:04,766 --> 01:09:08,393 that here was not only an indispensable member of the organization, 132 01:09:08,478 --> 01:09:12,147 but a screen personality whose possibilities nobody around the place 133 01:09:12,232 --> 01:09:13,524 had ever noticed. 134 01:09:13,608 --> 01:09:17,694 And so I'm very happy to have this opportunity to introduce to you 135 01:09:17,779 --> 01:09:19,738 the soundtrack. 136 01:09:20,990 --> 01:09:22,491 All right. Come on. 137 01:09:22,575 --> 01:09:24,952 That's all right. Don't be timid. 138 01:09:27,747 --> 01:09:29,456 Atta soundtrack. 139 01:09:29,541 --> 01:09:32,042 Now, watching him, I discovered that every beautiful sound 140 01:09:32,126 --> 01:09:35,045 also creates an equally beautiful picture. 141 01:09:35,129 --> 01:09:38,924 Now, look. Will the soundtrack kindly produce a sound? 142 01:09:39,801 --> 01:09:43,428 Go on, don't be nervous. Go ahead. Any sound. 143 01:09:46,057 --> 01:09:49,643 Well, that isn't quite what I had in mind. 144 01:09:50,937 --> 01:09:53,605 Suppose we hear and see the harp. 145 01:10:13,835 --> 01:10:18,005 Now one of the strings, say, the violin. 146 01:10:39,402 --> 01:10:43,155 And now... now, one of the woodwinds, a flute. 147 01:10:49,412 --> 01:10:51,079 Very pretty. 148 01:10:51,164 --> 01:10:54,291 Now, let's have a brass instrument, the trumpet. 149 01:11:11,684 --> 01:11:16,021 All right. Now, how about a low instrument, the bassoon? 150 01:11:26,574 --> 01:11:30,160 Go on. Go on. Drop the other shoe, will you? 151 01:11:35,583 --> 01:11:39,378 Well, now to finish, suppose we see some of the percussion instruments, 152 01:11:39,462 --> 01:11:41,505 beginning with the bass drum. 153 01:12:07,573 --> 01:12:09,741 Thanks a lot, old man. 154 01:12:15,707 --> 01:12:18,709 The symphony that Beethoven called the Pastoral, 155 01:12:18,793 --> 01:12:22,337 his sixth, is one of the few pieces of music he ever wrote 156 01:12:22,422 --> 01:12:24,673 that tells something like a definite story. 157 01:12:24,757 --> 01:12:27,676 He was a great nature lover, and in this symphony, 158 01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,846 he paints a musical picture of a day in the country. 159 01:12:30,930 --> 01:12:32,931 Now, of course, the country that Beethoven described 160 01:12:33,016 --> 01:12:35,684 was the countryside with which he was familiar. 161 01:12:35,768 --> 01:12:38,520 But his music covers a much wider field than that, 162 01:12:38,604 --> 01:12:42,566 so Walt Disney has given the Pastoral Symphony a mythological setting. 163 01:12:42,650 --> 01:12:47,070 And that setting is of Mt. Olympus, the abode of the gods. 164 01:12:47,155 --> 01:12:50,532 And here, first of all, we meet a group of fabulous creatures 165 01:12:50,616 --> 01:12:52,451 of the field and forest, 166 01:12:52,535 --> 01:12:56,538 unicorns, fauns, Pegasus, the flying horse, 167 01:12:56,622 --> 01:12:59,291 and his entire family, the centaurs, 168 01:12:59,375 --> 01:13:03,795 those strange creatures that are half-man and half-horse. 169 01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:06,882 And their girlfriends, the centaur-ettes. 170 01:13:06,966 --> 01:13:10,177 Later on, we meet our old friend, Bacchus, the god ofwine, 171 01:13:10,261 --> 01:13:12,387 presiding over a bacchanal. 172 01:13:12,472 --> 01:13:14,347 The party is interrupted by a storm. 173 01:13:14,432 --> 01:13:17,100 And now, we see Vulcan forging thunderbolts 174 01:13:17,185 --> 01:13:20,145 and handing them over to the king of all the gods, Zeus, 175 01:13:20,229 --> 01:13:22,397 who plays darts with them. 176 01:13:22,482 --> 01:13:26,234 As the storm clears, we see Iris, the goddess of the rainbow. 177 01:13:26,319 --> 01:13:30,155 And Apollo, driving his sun chariot across the sky. 178 01:13:30,239 --> 01:13:32,199 And then Morpheus, the god of sleep, 179 01:13:32,283 --> 01:13:34,951 covers everything with his cloak of night, 180 01:13:35,036 --> 01:13:37,996 as Diana, using the new moon as a bow, 181 01:13:38,081 --> 01:13:42,501 shoots an arrow of fire that spangles the sky with stars. 182 01:36:12,725 --> 01:36:16,812 Now we're going to do one of the most famous and popular ballets ever written, 183 01:36:16,896 --> 01:36:20,441 The Dance of the Hours from Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda. 184 01:36:20,525 --> 01:36:23,193 It's a pageant of the hours of the day. 185 01:36:23,278 --> 01:36:26,447 We see first a group of dancers in costumes 186 01:36:26,531 --> 01:36:28,824 to suggest the delicate light of dawn. 187 01:36:28,908 --> 01:36:30,367 Then a second group enters 188 01:36:30,452 --> 01:36:33,537 dressed to represent the brilliant light of noon day. 189 01:36:33,621 --> 01:36:36,331 As these withdraw, a third group enters 190 01:36:36,416 --> 01:36:40,878 in costumes that suggest the delicate tones of early evening. 191 01:36:40,962 --> 01:36:45,549 Then a last group, all in black, the somber hours of the night. 192 01:36:45,633 --> 01:36:48,302 Suddenly, the orchestra bursts into a brilliant finale 193 01:36:48,386 --> 01:36:53,140 in which the hours of darkness are overcome by the hours of light. 194 01:36:53,224 --> 01:36:57,019 All this takes place in the great hall with its garden beyond, 195 01:36:57,103 --> 01:37:00,772 of the palace of Duke Alvise, a Venetian nobleman. 196 01:49:23,974 --> 01:49:26,434 The last number on our Fantasia program 197 01:49:26,518 --> 01:49:29,562 is a combination of two pieces of music so utterly different 198 01:49:29,647 --> 01:49:34,234 in construction and mood that they set each other off perfectly. 199 01:49:34,318 --> 01:49:36,736 The firstis A Night on Bald Mountain, 200 01:49:36,820 --> 01:49:40,907 by one of Russia's greatest composers, Modest Mussorgsky. 201 01:49:40,991 --> 01:49:45,078 The second is Franz Schubert's world-famous Ave Maria. 202 01:49:45,162 --> 01:49:47,956 Musically and dramatically, we have here a picture 203 01:49:48,040 --> 01:49:50,583 of the struggle between the profane and the sacred. 204 01:49:50,668 --> 01:49:53,419 Bald Mountain, according to tradition, 205 01:49:53,504 --> 01:49:56,756 is the gathering place of Satan and his followers. 206 01:49:56,840 --> 01:50:00,802 Here on Walpurgis Night, which is the equivalent of our own Halloween, 207 01:50:00,886 --> 01:50:04,722 the creatures of evil gather to worship their master. 208 01:50:04,807 --> 01:50:07,433 Under his spell, they dance furiously 209 01:50:07,518 --> 01:50:10,311 until the coming of dawn and the sounds of church bells 210 01:50:10,396 --> 01:50:15,275 send the infernal army slinking back into their abodes of darkness. 211 01:50:15,359 --> 01:50:18,861 And then we hear the Ave Maria, with its message of the triumph 212 01:50:18,946 --> 01:50:23,032 of hope and life over the powers of despair and death.