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Mickey Mouse, wearing a blue sorcerer hat, rides an open magical book through swirling yellow and blue water in a scene from Fantasia's The Sorcerer's Apprentice segment.
Fantasia A lobby card featuring a scene from the “The Sorcerer's Apprentice” segment in Fantasia (1940).

Fantasia

American animated film [1940]
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Fantasia, American animated film, released in 1940, that was produced by Walt Disney and features seven unrelated segments set to classical music under the direction of famed conductor Leopold Stokowski. Viewers and critics have deemed the film, which lacks an overarching narrative, both bewildering and impressive. Several of the sequences are widely considered to be too slow in pace, while others, such as the dramatic rendering of a witches’ sabbath set to Modest Mussorgsky’s “Night...

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