--- title: 'Fantasia (1940)' type: 'film' director: 'Norm Ferguson' released: '1940-11-13' runtime_minutes: 120 certification: 'G' genres: - 'Fantasy' - 'Music' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/fantasia-1940' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032455/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Fantasia (1940) 1940 · G · 120 min · Fantasy, Music · United States Part of: Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film ## Synopsis Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen. It consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor acts as the film's Master of Ceremonies who introduces each segment in live-action. ## Credits - **Director:** [Norm Ferguson](https://cinepixo.com/people/norm-ferguson), [James Algar](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-algar), [Hamilton Luske](https://cinepixo.com/people/hamilton-luske), [Wilfred Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/wilfred-jackson), [Ben Sharpsteen](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-sharpsteen), [Bill Roberts](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-roberts-2), [Ford Beebe](https://cinepixo.com/people/ford-beebe), [Samuel Armstrong](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-armstrong), [T. Hee](https://cinepixo.com/people/t-hee), [Ford Beebe Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/ford-beebe-jr), [Jim Handley](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-handley), [Paul Satterfield](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-satterfield-2) ## Cast - [Walt Disney](https://cinepixo.com/people/walt-disney) - [Paul Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-smith) as self - [Leopold Stokowski](https://cinepixo.com/people/leopold-stokowski) as self - [Jimmy MacDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/jimmy-macdonald) as self - [Deems Taylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/deems-taylor) as self ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://movies.disney.com/fantasia/ Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/fantasia-1940 Film facts: Wikidata (Q943192); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.