Fantasia 2000

slinky note on a clarinet, 57 00:16:37,287 --> 00:16:40,415 and a simple line on a piece of paper. 58 00:16:40,541 --> 00:16:44,460 Ladies and gentlemen, Rhapsody in Blue. 59 00:29:19,382 --> 00:29:22,217 Hi. You may not know this, but over the years, 60 00:29:22,302 --> 00:29:24,595 the Disney artists have cooked up dozens of ideas 61 00:29:24,679 --> 00:29:26,555 for new Fantasia segments. 62 00:29:26,639 --> 00:29:29,224 Some of them made it to the big screen this time, 63 00:29:29,309 --> 00:29:31,769 but others, lots of others... 64 00:29:31,853 --> 00:29:34,396 How can I put this politely? Didn't. 65 00:29:35,023 --> 00:29:38,734 For example, the Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen drew these sketches 66 00:29:38,818 --> 00:29:42,780 for a segment inspired by Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. 67 00:29:42,864 --> 00:29:44,615 Here they are, 68 00:29:44,699 --> 00:29:46,700 and there they go. 69 00:29:46,910 --> 00:29:50,120 Now, Salvador Dali, you know, the "limp watches" guy, 70 00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:52,790 he got into the act with an idea that featured baseball 71 00:29:52,874 --> 00:29:54,792 as a metaphor for life. 72 00:29:54,876 --> 00:29:57,795 How come that didn't work? Makes perfect sense to me. 73 00:29:57,879 --> 00:30:01,632 Let's see. Then we had a bug ballet and a baby ballet, 74 00:30:01,716 --> 00:30:04,009 and for a time, they even considered a sequence 75 00:30:04,093 --> 00:30:06,637 inspired by The Polka and the Fugue, 76 00:30:06,721 --> 00:30:10,307 from Weinberger's Schwanda the Bagpiper. 77 00:30:10,391 --> 00:30:12,851 But finally, a success. 78 00:30:12,936 --> 00:30:15,604 The Disney artists wanted to create a short film, 79 00:30:15,688 --> 00:30:18,315 based on Hans Christian Andersen's wonderful fairy tale 80 00:30:18,399 --> 00:30:20,192 The Steadfast Tin Soldier, 81 00:30:20,276 --> 00:30:24,196 but they could never find the perfect musical match until now. 82 00:30:24,572 --> 00:30:26,281 Here is Yefim Bronfman, 83 00:30:26,366 --> 00:30:29,326 playing the Shostakovich Piano Concerto Number 2, 84 00:30:29,410 --> 00:30:32,371 and The Steadfast Tin Soldier. 85 00:38:11,622 --> 00:38:13,873 These drawing boards have been the birthplace 86 00:38:13,958 --> 00:38:17,294 of some of the most beloved animal characters of all time. 87 00:38:17,378 --> 00:38:20,797 So it's no surprise that the artists chose for our next segment 88 00:38:20,881 --> 00:38:24,175 The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. 89 00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:27,637 Here, the sensitive strains of impressionistic music 90 00:38:27,722 --> 00:38:30,682 combine with the subtle artistry of the animator, 91 00:38:30,766 --> 00:38:33,560 to finally answer that age-old question, 92 00:38:33,644 --> 00:38:36,313 "What is man's relationship to nature?" 93 00:38:37,732 --> 00:38:39,065 Sorry. 94 00:38:39,734 --> 00:38:41,484 That age-old question, 95 00:38:41,569 --> 00:38:45,405 "What would happen if you gave a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?" 96 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:47,240 Who wrote this? 97 00:40:43,691 --> 00:40:46,067 Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to take a moment, if we may, 98 00:40:46,152 --> 00:40:49,612 to talk about a little something we like to refer to as magic. 99 00:40:49,697 --> 00:40:50,989 Picture this. You're at home, 100 00:40:51,073 --> 00:40:53,032 hosting a birthday party for your daughter, 101 00:40:53,117 --> 00:40:55,034 and you've just shelled out 50 bucks, 102 00:40:55,119 --> 00:41:00,540 so some pathetic loser can pull a mangy rabbit out of a flea market hat. 103 00:41:00,875 --> 00:41:03,460 At first, you might wonder to yourself, 104 00:41:03,544 --> 00:41:05,336