The Walt Disney Company turns 100 this year, so each month IllusiveKen is looking back at its landmark films to better understand the Mouse House - and the film industry it's helped define. This month: Fantasia
Disney certainly bears a lot of blame for keeping all of the money, all of the success and all of the acclaim of animated features in service of the most inoffensive plots and characters imaginable. But we should also consider that, once upon a time, none other than Walt Disney himself swung for the fences on something completely different—and he was rewarded with bupkis.came into being due to another project ballooning entirely out of proportion.
Meanwhile, they weren’t being met with a lot of confidence from their distributor, RKO, which wanted to cut the runtime and thought the thing wouldn’t make any money.Framed by an announcer straightforwardly telling you everything you’re about to see prior to each segment,unfolds in a series of shorts set to a full orchestra conducted by Stokowski, all of whom occasionally share the screen with the shorts during transitional moments.
Unfortunately, the box office ended up confirming everyone’s worries: The Second World War hit, cutting off distribution to Europe andsimply didn’t perform as well. The great reviews from the major papers weren’t enough to save it, and Disney took a big financial hit.
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