Fantasia (1940) (The Signature Collection) - TBA

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Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

The Red Shoes (New York's Museum of Modern Art showed Fantasia and The Red Shoes as a celebration of dance, but the visual abstractions, use of color, and movement in The Red Shoes seem so twinned up with Fantasia it's impossible for me to watch either without thinking of the other)

Michael Powell (the director of The Red Shoes) on Walt Disney:

He was one of the great innovators of film. One of the things I liked was when talkies came in, a lot of the timing of silent films went out of the window and nobody made those marvelous slapstick comedies anymore because there were only verbal jokes. But Disney kept on making those wonderful cartoons for at least another ten years so he kept the whole idea of film comedy and narrative through image alive. People don't realize that they owe an enormous lot to him.
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