When Walt Disney embarked on Fantasia, released in November 1940, his reputation was well established. Mickey Mouse and Snow White were cultural touchstones. Both Yale and Harvard had bestowed him ...

Fantasia is the first and only Disney movie to feature an intermission. The Nutcracker Suite is also a very memorable part of ...

When it featured in Disney’s animated classic Fantasia in 1940, The Nutcracker hadn’t actually been performed in full in the United States. It was only four years later, in 1944, that it was ...

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