Fantasia

51 00:14:06,618 --> 00:14:07,632 Incidentally, 52 00:14:07,879 --> 00:14:10,204 you won't see any nutcracker on the screen. 53 00:14:10,236 --> 00:14:11,937 There's nothing left of him but the title. 54 00:28:46,213 --> 00:28:49,792 And now we're going to hear a piece of music that tells a very definite story. 55 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,278 It's a very old story, one that goes back almost 2,000 years. 56 00:28:54,620 --> 00:28:57,000 A legend about a sorcerer who had an apprentice. 57 00:28:58,380 --> 00:29:01,020 He was a bright young lad, very anxious to learn the business. 58 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,604 As a matter of fact, he was a little bit too bright, 59 00:29:03,917 --> 00:29:06,528 because he started practicing some of the boss's 60 00:29:06,551 --> 00:29:07,864 best magic tricks 61 00:29:08,130 --> 00:29:09,767 before learning how to control them. 62 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:32,987 Mr. Stokowski! 63 00:38:33,392 --> 00:38:34,548 Mr. Stokowski! 64 00:38:37,165 --> 00:38:39,252 My congratulations, sir. 65 00:38:40,940 --> 00:38:42,912 Congratulations to you, Mickey. 66 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:44,318 Gee, thanks. 67 00:38:45,246 --> 00:38:46,406 Well, so long. 68 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,213 I'll be seeing you. 69 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:50,809 Goodbye. 70 00:38:57,850 --> 00:39:01,562 When Igor Stravinsky wrote his ballet, 'The Rite of Spring', 71 00:39:01,802 --> 00:39:04,750 his purpose was, in his own words, to express primitive life. 72 00:39:05,390 --> 00:39:08,690 And so Walt Disney and his fellow artists have taken him at his word. 73 00:39:09,370 --> 00:39:12,132 Instead of presenting the ballet in its original form 74 00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,152 as a simple series of tribal dances, 75 00:39:14,318 --> 00:39:16,474 they have visualized it as a pageant, 76 00:39:16,781 --> 00:39:19,714 as the story of the growth of life on Earth. 77 00:39:20,030 --> 00:39:23,078 It's a coldly accurate reproduction of what science thinks 78 00:39:23,211 --> 00:39:26,651 went on during the first few billion years of this planet's existence. 79 00:39:26,910 --> 00:39:30,290 So now, imagine yourselves out in space, 80 00:39:30,704 --> 00:39:33,224 billions and billions of years ago, 81 00:39:33,450 --> 00:39:36,521 looking down on this lonely, tormented little planet, 82 00:39:36,854 --> 00:39:39,777 spinning through an empty sea of nothingness. 83 01:02:19,825 --> 01:02:34,825 [15 Minute Intermission] 84 01:07:19,825 --> 01:07:34,825 [10 Minutes remaining for Intermission] 85 01:12:19,825 --> 01:12:34,825 [5 Minutes remaining for Intermission] 86 01:17:12,755 --> 01:17:27,755 [End of Intermission] 87 01:18:50,857 --> 01:18:53,577 Before we get into the second half of the program, 88 01:18:53,704 --> 01:18:55,691 I'd like to introduce somebody to you, 89 01:18:55,817 --> 01:18:58,125 somebody who's very important to Fantasia. 90 01:18:58,420 --> 01:19:00,172 He's very shy and very retiring. 91 01:19:00,460 --> 01:19:03,160 I just happened to run across him one day at the Disney Studios. 92 01:19:03,480 --> 01:19:04,544 But when I did, 93 01:19:04,777 --> 01:19:08,602 I realized that here was not only an