Fantasia 2000
Fantasia 2000 poster
Directed by	See "Credits" below
Produced by	Roy E. Disney Donald W. Ernst
Written by	See "Credits" below
Starring	James Levine Chicago Symphony Orchestra See "Credits" below for hosts
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	December 17, 1999 (premiere) January 1, 2000 (IMAX) June 16, 2000 (general)
Running time	75 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$80,000,000 (estimated)[citation needed]
Preceded by	Fantasia (1940)
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Fantasia 2000 is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. A followup to 1940's Fantasia, the film is the thirty-eighth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It premiered in the United States on December 17, 1999, was released to IMAX theaters on January 1, 2000, and was later released to standard theaters nationwide on June 16, 2000. As with its predecessor, the film visualizes classical music compositions with various forms of animation and live-action introductions. The music is performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, arranged and conducted by James Levine, excepting two pieces arranged by Peter Schickele, and the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment from the original film. Image File history File links Fantasia 2000 Poster This is a copyrighted poster. ... Fantasia 2000 is the thirty-eighth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. ... Roy E. 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Program

The composers and their works, in the order they are used in the film, are:

• Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in c minor-I. Allegro con brio – abstract patterns resembling butterflies and bats explore a world of light and darkness which are conquered by light at last.
• Ottorino Respighi's Pines of Rome – this segment features a pod of frolicking humpback whales in an unusual 'aerial' setting, and within icebergs. The final section, the Via Appia gives the impression of the larger pod of adults in migration.
• George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue – an episode of 1930s-era New York City, depicting the day in the lives of several people within the Depression-era bustling metropolis, as scenes drawn in the style of Al Hirschfeld's famous cartoons of the era, including an animated cameo of Gershwin the composer, himself at the piano. The little girl in the hotel is based on the Eloise character created by Kay Thompson.
• Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major-I. Allegro – a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Steadfast Tin Soldier. The setting is appropriate - the concerto was written as a gift by Shostakovich to his musically gifted young son, and the percussive rhythms also suit a story about a soldier. However, the ending is a happy one in contrast with that of the original story.
• Camille Saint-Saëns's The Carnival of the Animals, Finale – A flock of ballerina flamingos (itself a nod to the Hippopotami, Ostriches and Elephants of Dance of the Hours from Fantasia), with a rebellious slapstick Flamingo with a yo-yo, designed to delight children with the on-screen hysterics; music arranged by Peter Schickele. A number of real yo-yo tricks including "Walk the Dog", "Rock the Cradle" and "UFO".
• Paul Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice – a segment from the original Fantasia featuring Mickey Mouse, conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
• Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance - Marches 1, 2, 3 and 4 – a retelling of the story of Noah's Ark, with Donald Duck as first mate to Noah. Donald musters the animals to the Ark, and misses, loses, and is reunited with Daisy Duck in the process; music arranged by Peter Schickele, including a wordless soprano solo as part of the No. 1 march ('Land of Hope and Glory').
• Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite - 1919 Version – the story of a spring Sprite and her companion Elk. After a long winter she restores the life to the forest but accidentally awakes the Firebird spirit of a nearby volcano. Angered the Firebird proceeds in destroying the forest and seemingly the sprite. She is restored to life however after the destruction and the forest life is reborn with her. The story is considered an exercise in the theme of Life-death-rebirth deities.

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History

Origins

The plan for the original Fantasia movie was for it to be a kind of permanently running show, periodically adding new episodes while others would be rotated out. However, the film's failure to achieve success at the box office, combined with the loss of the European market due to World War II, meant that the plan went unused. Accordingly, Fantasia 2000 implemented this idea by retaining the sequence with Mickey Mouse as the sorcerer's apprentice, arguably the most popular segment from the original film. Mickey Mouse an Academy Award-winning comic animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. ...

Development for Fantasia 2000 began in 1990, and production began the following year. The music selections were made as a collective decision by Roy E. Disney, James Levine, and members of the production staff. Most were decisions driven by the musical preferences of the team; Roy personally chose the Pines of Rome. Other pieces were discovered long after the story ideas were set, such as the Steadfast Tin Soldier, where the visuals were based on artwork done for the original Fantasia, but the Shostakovitch piece was presented to the team by an animator relatively late into the production schedule.

Rhapsody in Blue was a work already in progress by director Eric Goldberg (lead animator for the Genie in Aladdin, also inspired by Al Hirschfeld's art), when Disney approached him to complete the piece for the movie. This decision was ideal given the head start on the work and so that the film could include a work from an American composer. Taking on Rhapsody in Blue also allowed Disney to keep the animators assigned to their feature Kingdom of the Sun (later released as The Emperor's New Groove) busy while Kingdom went through an extensive re-write. Some press articles written after the completion of Groove reversed the roles, saying that Goldberg first approached Disney for Rhapsody for Fantasia 2000 and was initially rejected, and later the producers came back to him as a result of the need find something to do with the animation staff while the Kingdom rewrite was going on. Eric Goldberg (born in 1955) is an American animator and film director. ... This article is about the Disney film. ... Al Hirschfeld photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist, best known for his simple black and white satirical portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars. ... The Emperors New Groove is a 2000 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures through Buena Vista Distribution on December 15, 2000. ...

One significant difference in the musical styles between the films is that in Fantasia 2000 the piano features prominently in more than half of the selections, while the original Fantasia did not have a piano in any segment. A short grand piano, with the top up. ...

Fantasia 2000 features many technical innovations, that would later be utilized in the Disney studio's other animation works, particularly in the use of computers. Both Pines of Rome and The Steadfast Tin Soldier were primarily CGI pieces, completed before Pixar's landmark film Toy Story was released. The horns on the elk in The Firebird were CGI-rendered on top of hand-drawn animation (giving them a higher consistency, when compared to Bambi which was all drawn by hand), a technique that would be used in Treasure Planet for the character Silver. Pixar Animation Studios is an American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California (USA). ... Toy Story is a CGI animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 22, 1995, and Australia on December 7, 1995, as well as in the United Kingdom on 22 March 1996. ... This article is about the 1942 Walt Disney film. ... Treasure Planet is a 2002 science fiction animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002. ...

The producers felt that some break between the musical segments was necessary to "cleanse the palate", so a series of "interstitials" were directed by Disney animation producer Don Hahn. Instead of using a single narrator as in Fantasia, the individual pieces are introduced by celebrities. After the film opens with Beethoven's Fifth, Steve Martin and Itzhak Perlman introduce Pines of Rome. Quincy Jones leads into the Gershwin number, and Bette Midler gives an introduction to the Shostakovich concerto, both featuring on screen the piano players for the respective pieces. James Earl Jones introduces Carnival of the Animals with director Eric Goldberg, and, appropriately enough, Penn and Teller make an appearance before The Sorcerer's Apprentice. When this piece concludes with Mickey Mouse's conversation with conductor Leopold Stokowski from the original Fantasia, Mickey then moves on to chat with Levine before the latter introduces Pomp and Circumstance. The final sequence of The Firebird is introduced by Angela Lansbury. Don Hahn (born in 1955) is a film producer who has produced some of the most successful Walt Disney animated films of the past 20 years. ... Megastar redirects here. ... Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician and composer. ... Itzhak Perlman Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945 in Jaffa) is an Israeli virtuoso violinist and teacher. ... Quincy Jones on the cover of Back on the Block (1989). ... Bette Davis Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known to her fans as The Divine Miss M. She is named after the actress Bette Davis although Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one. ... James Earl Jones (b. ... Penn (left) & Teller Penn and Teller are a two-man magic and comedy team, comprised of Penn Jillette and Teller. ... Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz April 18, 1882 in London, England, died September 13, 1977 in Nether Wallop, England) was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. ... Angela Brigid Lansbury CBE (born October 16, 1925) is a four-time Tony-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, three-time Oscar-nominated, and eighteen-time Emmy Award-nominated English actress, best-known for playing mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote. ...

Home video

Fantasia 2000 was released on its own on VHS and DVD in 2000, together with the 60th Anniversary Edition of Fantasia. A DVD box set including the two films and a bonus disc with special features, entitled The Fantasia Anthology, was also released. They are currently unavailable. Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Vertical Helical Scan, better known by its abbreviation VHS (and often confused to be Video Home System) is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by... DVD (commonly known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

Credits

Symphony No. 5

• Designed and directed by Pixote Hunt
• Story by Kevin Yasuda
• Introduction by Deems Taylor (archived footage)

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Pines of Rome

• Directed by Hendel Butoy
• Story by James Fujii
• Art Direction by William Perkins and Dean Gordon
• Introduction by Steve Martin and Itzhak Perlman

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Rhapsody in Blue

• Written and directed by Eric Goldberg
• Art direction by Susan McKinsey Goldberg
• Design consultant: Al Hirschfeld
• Introduction by Quincy Jones
• Featured pianist: Ralph Grierson

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Piano Concerto No. 2, Allegro, Opus 102

• Directed by Hendel Butoy
• Based upon "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" by Hans Christian Andersen
• Story development by James Capobianco and Ron Meurin
• Art direction by Michael Humphries
• Introduction by Bette Midler
• Featured pianist: Yefim Bronfman

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Carnival of the Animals

• Written, directed, and animated by Eric Goldberg
• Art direction by Susan McKinsey Goldberg
• Introduction by James Earl Jones

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The Sorcerer's Apprentice

• Originally from the 1940 Fantasia
• Directed by James Algar
• Art direction by Tom Codrick, Charles Phillipi, and Zack Schwartz
• Story development by Dick Huemer, Joe Grant, Perce Pearce, James Capobianco, and Carl Fallberg
• Mickey Mouse design by Fred Moore
• Key character animation by Fred Moore, Preston Blair
• Key effects animation by Ugo D'Orsi
• New introduction by Penn and Teller

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Pomp and Circumstance - Marches 1, 2, 3 and 4

• Directed by Francis Glebas
• Art direction by Daniel Cooper
• Based upon "Noah's Ark" from the Book of Genesis
• Story development by Robert Gibbs, Terry Naughton, Todd Kurosawa, Pat Ventura, Don Dougherty, and Stevie Wermers
• Introduction by Leopold Stokowski (archive footage), Mickey Mouse (voice of Wayne Allwine), James Levine, and Donald Duck (voice of Tony Anselmo)
• Supervising animator: Mickey Mouse (from the Introduction) by Andreas Deja

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Firebird Suite - 1919 version

• Written and directed by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi
• Art direction by Carl Jones
• Supervising animator: Sprite by Anthony de Rosa
• Supervising animator: Elk by Ron Husband
• Supervising animator: Firebird by John Pomeroy
• Introduction by Angela Lansbury

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Live-action sequences

• Directed by Don Hahn
• Art direction by Pixote Hunt
• Story by Kirk Hanson
• Screenplay by Don Hahn, Irene Mecchi, and David Reynolds
• Starring James Levine and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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External links

• Fantasia 2000 at the Internet Movie Database
• Fantasia 2000 at the Big Cartoon DataBase