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Fantasia
A dreamlike concert of images where music becomes dancing shapes, moods shifting from playful to awe to eerie without a word of plot.
About 1940 animated film
Genres fantasy, musical, clay animation, puppetoon animation, live-action/animated
Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, James Algar, Hamilton Luske, Norm Ferguson, Ford Beebe
Written by Joe Grant, Dick Huemer
Starring Walt Disney, Leopold Stokowski, Jimmy MacDonald, Paul Smith, Deems Taylor
Music Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach
Runtime 120 min
Country United States
Links Wikipedia · IMDb · Letterboxd · Wikidata
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