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An error has ocurred. Please try againPaul Aronoff ... adr mixer Ed Callahan ... sound editor C. Douglas Cameron ... boom operator Chris David ... re-recording mixer Ezra Dweck ... re-recording mixer Will Files ... sound editorial production assistant: Weddington Productions (as William Files) Avram D. Gold ... sound editor Doc Kane ... adr mixer Peter Karam ... additional sound recordist Shawn Kennelly ... foley mixer Shawn Ian Kerkhoff ... sound assistant editor: Weddington Productions (as Shawn Ian Kerkoff MPSE) Cliff Latimer ... supervising adr editor / supervising dialogue editor Laura Macias ... foley artist Michael A. Morongell ... sound re-recording engineer (as Mike Morongell) Andy Peach ... sound recordist Scott Reed ... head sound manager Terry Rodman ... re-recording mixer Sean Rowe ... foley artist Carl Rudisill ... sound mixer Tony Shepherd ... additional sound recordist Reuben Simon ... foley editor Scott Solan ... utility cable Jussi Tegelman ... sound editor Eric Tomosunas ... adr mixer David A. Whittaker ... supervising sound editor (as David Whittaker MPSE) Richard Burnette ... mix facility coordinator (uncredited) Robert Carr ... sound recordist (uncredited) Dylan A. Flores ... adr mixer (uncredited)
J. David Atherton ... dialogue recordist Tom Blakemore ... sound editor Bryen Hensley ... dialogue editor C. Paul Johnson ... sound designer: audio (as C Paul Johnson) Martin O'Donnell ... sound director (as Marty O'Donnell) Michael Salvatori ... additional audio production Jay Weinland ... audio lead Mike Draghi ... sound re-recording mixer: "I Love Bees" promo game (uncredited)
James Ashwill ... foley mixer G.W. Brown ... dialogue/adr editor Jeannette Browning ... adr recordist Skip Craig ... track reading John T. Cucci ... foley artist (as John Cucci) Robert Duarte ... foley mixer Tammy Fearing ... dialogue/adr editor Erik Flockoi ... recordist David Guerrero ... assistant dialogue engineer Devon Heffley Curry ... dialogue/adr editor (as Devon Curry M.P.S.E.) Cindy Jo Hinkleman ... assistant sound editor (as Cindy Jo 'CJ' Hinkleman) Brian Kahanek ... adr mixer Doc Kane ... adr group mixer Lisa J. Levine ... dialogue/adr editor Donald J. Malouf ... supervising sound editor (as Donald J. Malouf M.P.S.E.) Terry O'Bright ... re-recording mixer (as Terry O'Bright C.A.S.) Dan O'Connell ... foley artist Charles W. Ritter ... foley editor Keith Rogers ... re-recording mixer (as Keith Rogers C.A.S.) Carlos Sotolongo ... dialogue recording Thomas Whiting ... supervising dialogue/adr editor (as Thomas G. Whiting) Dan Yale ... foley editor: supervising / supervising foley editor Cindy Jo Hinkleman ... first sound assistant (uncredited) Steve Kohler ... sound recordist (uncredited)
Steve Boeddeker ... sound designer Lisa Chino ... assistant dialogue editor Lee Dichter ... re-recording mixer Frank E. Eulner ... supervising sound editor (as Frank Eulner) Andre Fenley ... assistant supervising sound editor Scott Guitteau ... sound effects editor Ellen Heuer ... foley artist Marilyn McCoppen ... adr editor Adam Muller ... sound effects editor Chris Munro ... production sound mixer Anthony Ortiz ... boom operator Mike Patrick ... mix technician Troy Porter ... adr mixer Frank Rinella ... foley mixer Michael Scott ... sound recordist Kevin Sellers ... foley editor Michael Semanick ... re-recording mixer Dennie Thorpe ... foley artist Jana Vance ... foley artist Marshall Winn ... supervising dialogue & adr editor Aren Downie ... assistant sound editor (uncredited) Sean England ... foley recordist (uncredited) Will Files ... assistant sound designer (uncredited) Brian Magerkurth ... mix technician (uncredited)
Ronald G. Roumas ... re-recordist (uncredited) Randy Thom ... additional sound effects (uncredited)
James Ashwill ... foley mixer Skip Craig ... track reading (as George Craig) John T. Cucci ... foley artist (as John Cucci) Laverne Dewberry ... adr group recordist Ronald Eng ... supervising sound editor Tammy Fearing ... supervising dialogue & adr editor Erik Flockoi ... sound recordist Dana LeBlanc Frankley ... first assistant sound editor Arnie Geher ... original dialogue recording (as Arnold Geher) David Guerrero ... assistant dialogue engineer Doug Jackson ... sound editor / sound effects editor Doc Kane ... adr group mixer / adr mixer Samuel F. Kaufman ... adr group recordist (as Sam Kaufman) Carol Lewis ... adr supervisor / supervising dialogue & adr editor Terry O'Bright ... re-recording mixer Dan O'Connell ... foley artist Willard Overstreet ... foley supervisor / supervising foley editor Troy Porter ... adr group mixer Keith Rogers ... re-recording mixer Sean Rowe ... foley artist Marsha Sorce ... adr group recordist (uncredited) Carlos Sotolongo ... adr recording / original dialogue recording Jody Thomas ... foley artist Robert Troy ... dialog editor Steve Tushar ... sound editor
Otis Van Osten ... sound editor Denise Whitfield ... track reading Larry Winer ... adr mixer / original dialogue recording Jeannette Browning ... adr recordist (uncredited) Steve Kohler ... recordist (uncredited)
Christopher Barron ... digital sound transferer David Boulton ... adr mixer Christopher Boyes ... re-recording mixer Rick Canelli ... adr recordist John Countryman ... digital transfer Edwin Dunkley ... video services (as Ed Dunkley) Sean England ... foley recordist Frank E. Eulner ... sound designer (as Frank Eulner) Andre Fenley ... assistant supervising sound editor (as André Fenley) Carl Fischer ... boom operator Doug Ford ... engineering services Brian Gallagher ... adr recordist Pascal Garneau ... foley editor Michael Gerbes ... adr mixer Jeff Gomillion ... adr mixer Jonathan Greber ... digital sound transferer J.R. Grubbs ... sound effects editor Ann Hadsell ... adr mixer Ellen Heuer ... foley artist Lora Hirschberg ... re-recording mixer Petur Hliddal ... sound mixer David Hunter ... digital editorial services Richard Hymns ... supervising sound editor Mike Lane ... client services Leff Lefferts ... digital editorial services Howard London ... adr mixer David Lucarelli ... adr recordist Alan Mays ... engineering services Marilyn McCoppen ... dialogue editor Jeremy Molod ... dialogue assistant Steve Morris ... engineering services Peggy Names ... utility sound technician Nathan Nance ... machine room operator Gordon Ng ... client services Thomas J. O'Connell ... adr mixer Eva Porter ... client services Charleen Richards ... adr mixer (as Charleen Steeves) Frank Rinella ... foley mixer (as Frank Aglieri-Rinella) Philip Rogers ... adr recordist Ronald G. Roumas ... machine room operator (as Ron Roumas) Renee Russo ... post production sound accountant (as Renée Russo) Tony Sereno ... mix technician Daniel Sperry ... sound consultant: Dolby Ewa Sztompke ... dialogue editor (as Ewa Sztompke-Oatfield) Dennie Thorpe ... foley artist (as Denise Thorp) John Torrijos ... video services (as John 'J.T. Torrijos) Jana Vance ... foley artist Kerry Dean Williams ... additional adr editor Gwendolyn Yates Whittle ... adr supervisor Derek Casari ... adr engineer (uncredited) Frank E. Eulner ... supervising sound editor (uncredited) Greg LaPlante ... digital mastering (uncredited) Zach Martin ... sound recordist (uncredited) Jonathan Null ... foreigns supervisor (uncredited) Julio Serna ... dub supervisor (uncredited) Clint Smith ... sound recordist (uncredited) Zadran Wali ... adr artist (uncredited) Gwendolyn Yates Whittle ... dialog supervisor (uncredited)
Petra Bach ... adr supervisor David V. Butler ... dialogue editor Brian Dinkins ... mix technician Mark Elliott ... audio description narrator David E. Fluhr ... re-recording mixer Cameron Frankley ... sound designer / supervising sound editor Lee Gilmore ... foley editor Gabriel Guy ... original dialogue mixer Bill Higley ... original dialogue mixer Jason W. Jennings ... sound designer / sound editor Doc Kane ... original dialogue mixer Mary Jo Lang ... foley mixer Roy Latham ... original dialogue mixer Ai-Ling Lee ... sound designer / sound editor Jon Michaels ... first assistant sound editor / foley editor Alyson Dee Moore ... foley artist Matthias Neumann ... dubbing recordist Peter Pluer ... adr dialogue recordist John Roesch ... foley artist Tighe Sheldon ... sound recordist Dean A. Zupancic ... re-recording mixer (as Dean Zupancic)
Gopal Bidari...sound mixerErik Foreman...dialogue editor / re-recording mixer / sound editor
Kevin Bolen ... mix technician Lori Castro ... recording engineer David Chrastka ... sound assistant Luke Dunn Gielmuda ... foley editor (as Luke Dunn-Gielmuda) Sean England ... foley recordist Frank E. Eulner ... supervising sound editor (as Frank Eulner) Andre Fenley ... assistant supervising sound editor (as André Fenley) David E. Fluhr ... re-recording mixer (as David E. Fluhr CAS) J.R. Grubbs ... sound effects editor Gabriel Guy ... original dialogue mixer Bill Higley ... original dialogue mixer E.J. Holowicki ... sound effects editor Doc Kane ... original dialogue mixer Andy Potvin ... dolby sound consultant Frank Rinella ... foley mixer (as Frank Agileri-Rinella) Gary A. Rizzo ... re-recording mixer (as Gary Rizzo) Ronald G. Roumas ... recordist Renee Russo ... post production sound accountant Gary Rydstrom ... sound designer Ric Schnupp ... sound recordist Dee Selby ... foley editor Tony Sereno ... mix technician Dennie Thorpe ... foley artist Stephen Urata ... recordist Jana Vance ... foley artist Marshall Winn ... dialogue editor: supervising Angie Yesson ... sound fx recordist Danny Caccavo ... digital editorial services (uncredited) David Chrastka ... sound effects editor (uncredited) Ryan J. Frias ... digital editorial services (uncredited) Mike Lane ... client services (uncredited) Mark Lindauer ... re-recording stage engineer (uncredited) Dmitri Makarov ... digital editorial services (uncredited) Edgar Meza ... engineering services (uncredited) Greg J. Peterson ... foley recordist (uncredited) Gary Rydstrom ... sound supervisor (uncredited) Corey Tyler ... foley mixer (uncredited)
Randy Coppinger ... principal audio specialist: Disney Character Voices Ethan Friedericks ... audio specialist: Disney Character Voices Kazuki Hamamoto ... project assistant: sound section Yuki Hirose ... senior sound editor: sound section Ryo Inakura ... sound designer Takeharu Ishimoto ... synthesizer operator Saeko Kanazawa ... project assistant: sound section Keiji Kawamori ... synthesizer operators: sound section Nadia Kedineoglu ... production coordinator: English voices: Skylark Sound Studios Rita Kedineoglu ... recording engineer/dialogue editor: English voices: Skylark Sound Studios Masashi Kitagawa ... project manager: sound section Hirosato Noda ... synthesizer operators: sound section Gil Perez ... dialogue editor: English voices: Skylark Sound Studios John Roesch ... foley artist Yukihiro Seta ... sound editor: sound section Tatsuya Shoji ... sound programmer Asako Suga ... supervising dialogue editor
Rita Kedineoglu ... dialogue editor: Skylark Sound Studios, English voices / recording engineer: Skylark Sound Studios, English voices Howard London ... adr mixer Thomas J. O'Connell ... adr mixer Gil Perez ... dialogue editor: Skylark Sound Studios, English voices John Roesch ... foley artist Dennie Thorpe ... foley artist
Yoshitaka Fujita ... senior sound editor Yuki Hirose ... sound editor Ryo Inakura ... sound designer Mary Jo Lang ... foley mixer Yosuke Nakashima ... sound editor Atsushi Ohnishi ... dialogue editor Hitoshi Ohori ... sound programmer John Roesch ... foley artist Yukihiro Seta ... sound editor Asako Suga ... supervising dialogue editor Masayoshi Umezu ... dialogue editor Masayuki Yui ... sound editor Michael Semanick ... re-recording mixer (uncredited)
Satoshi Akamatsu ... audio programmer: sound Randy Coppinger ... principal audio specialist: Disney Character Voices Ethan Friedericks ... audio specialist: Disney Character Voices Kostas Gkikas ... recording engineer: English voices: Skylark Sound Studios Yuki Hirose ... senior sound editor: sound Ryo Inakura ... sound designer Steven Jover ... dialogue editor: English voices: Skylark Sound Studios Rita Kedineoglu ... dialogue editor: English voices: Skylark Sound Studios / recording engineer: English voices: Skylark Sound Studios Akihiro Minami ... audio programmer: sound Yukihiro Seta ... sound editor: sound Tatsuya Shoji ... audio programmer: sound Asako Suga ... dialogue editor Fumio Takano ... recording coordinator: sound: Tokyo Shitsunaigaku Kyokai Yoshinori Tsuchida ... audio programmer: sound Kunio Yamaguchi ... audio programmer: sound
Music Department Eun-Mee Ahn ... musician: violin Richard Bronskill ... orchestrator Rob Brophy ... musician: viola Thomas Diener ... musician: viola Andrew Dorfman ... music editor John Enroth ... synth programmer Nina Evtuhov ... musician: violin Albert Fox ... synth programmer Karen Glauber ... music supervisor Stephen Glicken ... music consultant Endre Granat ... musician: violin Katie Greathouse ... music editor Christopher Guardino ... orchestrator Brad Haehnel ... score mixer Elizabeth Hedman ... musician: violin Dan Kelley ... musician: french horn Chris Kollgaard ... musician: bass Darrin McCann ... musician: viola Joel Pargman ... musician: violin Radu Pieptea ... musician: violin James T. Sale ... conductor / orchestrator Naomi Sato ... music preparation Tereza Stanislav ... musician: violin Mark Berrow ... musician: violin (uncredited) Hristo Birbochukov ... musician (uncredited) Rachel Bolt ... musician: viola (uncredited) Tom Boyd ... musician: oboe soloist (uncredited) Tom Brown ... music preparation (uncredited) Chris Clad ... violin (uncredited) Tommy Coster ... composer: additional music (uncredited) / title song (uncredited) George Doering ... musician (uncredited) Bruce Dukov ... musician: violin (uncredited) Matt Franko ... music preparation (uncredited) Mark Graham ... head of music preparation (uncredited) Dylan S. Hart ... musician: french horn (uncredited) Jim Hoffman ... music preparation (uncredited) Paul Kegg ... musician: cello (uncredited) Chris Kennedy ... composer: additional music (uncredited) Randy Kerber ... musician: piano and synthesizer (uncredited) Kier Lehman ... music department (uncredited) Greg Loskorn ... scoring engineer (uncredited) Larry Mah ... digital score recordist (uncredited) Malcolm McNab ... musician: trumpet (uncredited) Victor Pesavento ... music preparation (uncredited) Jasper Randall ... choir contractor (uncredited) Peter Rotter ... music contractor (uncredited) Steve Schaeffer ... musician: percussion (uncredited) Steven L. Smith ... music preparation (uncredited) Linnea Snyder ... music preparation (uncredited) James Thatcher ... musician: French horn (uncredited) Bruce White ... musician: viola (uncredited) Jonathan Williams ... musician: cello (uncredited)
Reviews
Fantasia (1940)
The secret of Walt Disney: we saw him as the ultimate Sorcerer, he saw himself as the eternal Apprentice...
After "Snow White", who could ever underestimate animation? The new art form was definitely there to stay, embarking with bold confidence in the VIP wagon of Hollywood and promising to throne over the box-office for the decades to come. To think that it all started with a mouse!
And Walt Disney movies all pay tribute to that aspect of his success, that the simplest things can lead to the most extraordinary achievements, all it takes is to believe in or to wish upon a star. "Fantasia" is also an allegory of Disney's miraculous triumphs, an extraordinary achievement that also started with a mouse, THE mouse actually.
After years of declining popularity, it was time for Mickey to make a glorious come-back in a 'Silly Symphonies' cartoon, one of Oscar-caliber fitting his legacy. It was "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" adapted from Goethe's story of the same name. Today, the vision of Mickey enchanting the broom, making it fetch the water with Paul Lukas' playful tune and the dream sequence over the cliff, where he controls stars, comets, waves and the whole universe, are some of the most iconic moments of Disney's canon and American film-making history. And unconscious or not, there was something self-referential in that short.
Indeed, Disney was like Mickey during the dream, he could make anything possible with that magical hat called a 'vision', and like Mickey realizing the mayhem caused by the hundreds of brooms flooding the whole place, he saw the budget leak the short could have caused and things going easily out of control if he didn't decide to enlarge the scope and ambitions of the project. Instead of a short masterpiece, how about one big masterpiece made of little ones? So he made "Fantasia", an animated anthology, made of eight unforgettable segments set up to classical music pieces, each one having as much to say about music as they have about life.
From the enchanting 'Dance of the Plum Fairy' with Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' and the adorable 'China dance' with the mushrooms, to the horrifying Mussgorsky's 'Night on a Bald Mountain' and penetrating Schubert's 'Ave Maria', from the poetic to the droll, the antique to the modern, Disney took the world to a journey of such an unprecedented narrative it couldn't match the usual seventy minute-format. The two-hour run-time, long even by today's standards, says something about his urge to reach the mature age of animation. "Snow White" and "Pinocchio" were landmarks but the general perception of animation as an entertainment for children was a barrier to cross. "Fantasia" did it, showing with frames whatever classical music communicated with notes.
It is perhaps the greatest tribute to the power of music ever made in animation, an odyssey in the universal and timeless meaning of the word that can be easily compared to Stanley Kubrick's "2001". And watching the silhouette of the conductor Leopold Stokowski during the "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach has the same impact than the 'Zarathustra' opening, an ominous moment of religious intensity, and with a point: music doesn't set the tone, doesn't get us in the mood, it IS the mood, the tone, the focal point. The purpose of the opening sequence, as explained by the Master of Ceremonies Deems Taylor (who lets us see the Philadelphia orchestra play the instruments) was to acknowledge music's self-sufficient value and not take it for granted. And the film starts with abstract moving forms in gold and blue moving in harmony with the music.
We "visualize" the sound if that was ever possible. But who said anything was impossible with Disney? In the intermission; Taylor even introduces music as a character! And rightfully so because music also happens to be the storyteller, or a narrator helping us to appreciate our cultural heritage. With Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", we follow the reign and then the extinction of dinosaurs, what a long way since Gertie in 1914! T-Rex penetrated children's imagination, three generations before Spielberg. Beethoven "Pastoral Symphony" is a recollection of little Greek vignettes with fauns, angels and oddly sensual centaurettes. And Ponchielli's catchy "Dance of the Hour"s with the hippos, alligators and ostriches is the perfect little interlude before the nightmarish climax and its quiet and peaceful ending, whose religious undertones might make up for the use of evolutionist elements.
Without being controversial "Fantasia" did break a few grounds of censorship, venturing into themes hardly explored by movies such as details of female anatomy or depictions of Satan. Maybe Disney was too ahead of his time and some critics judged the film a bit too pretentious, too uneven, which can be argued since some parts are definitely standout masterpieces while the "Dance of the Hours" is of 'Silly Symphonies' level, but the point is that Disney, like I said before, was the sorcerer's apprentice whose delusions of grandeur were reflected by Mickey's dream, he wanted to push the edge of the envelope and experiment the newest framing and stereophonic sounds. Maybe what the film says is that any director must be a sorcerer's apprentice.
And there is something in the criticism faced by "Fantasia" that reminds of "2001" with people praising Mickey's part like they acknowledge Hal 9000 was the best thing about the film, as if they were afraid to admit they were bored a little. But how many movies owed their ticket to posterity because of some 'boring' parts? Geniuses doesn't just have visions of art, they challenges the viewers' own visions.
During the poignant handshake between the two silhouettes of Stokowski and Mickey, like a torch-passing moment between the past and the future, don't get it wrong, there's a third man out there, it's Disney, he's the voice and the Maestro, the one who conducted our eyes, our ears and our hearts to the infinite limits of imagination... and beyond. His secret: we all saw him as the Sorcerer, but he saw himself as the eternal apprentice.