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Category Archives: Fantasia
Fantasia Live at Lincoln Center
View animation from Disney’s golden age, side by side that of today’s generation. Sequences from Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 will be screened at Lincoln Center in New York City, accompanied by a live symphony orchestra . By your tix today! … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Disney, Fantasia
Tagged Lincoln Center, Mushrooms, Nutcracker Suite, orchestra
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1936 Lecture: Animation is Music
In the 1930s, Walt Disney moved forward with his in-studio education program. As was regular office practice at the time, he also had stenographers keeping track of all discussions and notes. A training course lecture series was started to allow … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Animation, California, Disney, Fantasia, Film, music, Photography
Tagged Disney Studios, Education, lecture, Richard Buhlig, Walt Disney
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Aldous Huxley on New Years Day
To give you an idea of the scope of Babbitt’s celebrity while working at the Disney Studios, at age 34 he was invited to Aldous Huxley’s home for New Years. A quote from Babbitt’s journal on Jan 1, 1942: Rang … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, 1941: The Disney Strike, Alice in Wonderland, Animation, California, Disney, Dumbo, Fantasia, Photography
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Art Babbitt, Brave New World, Dick Heumer, Disney, Disney Studios, Ends and Means, Joe Grant, Maria Huxley, Matthew Huxley, Walt Disney
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More Mushrooms
More of Art Babbitt to Michael Culhane, circa 1980, about Babbitt’s animation of the Mushroom Dance from Fantasia. Quoted by Michael Culhane. He told me his three stooges story, which my father told in the documentary, it comes with … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Animation, Dance, Disney, Fantasia
Tagged Acting, Art Babbitt, Culhane, troops
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Mushrooms can Dance!
When Michael Culhane was ten years old, he interviewed Art Babbitt in his family’s home, about how Art animated Fantasia’s Mushroom Dance, and he little protagonist, Hop Low. “Where did Hop Low come from?” I asked him. Mr. Babbitt told … Continue reading
Posted in 1932-1941: Disney Glory Days, Animation, Dance, Disney, Fantasia, Film, music
Tagged Art Babbitt, Bill Hurtz, Culhane, Elmer Plummer, interview, Jules Engel, Mushrooms, Nutcracker Suite, Tchaikovsky
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