00:00Fantasia ruined Disney and Walt Disney hid it.
00:02Fantasia didn't save Disney, it almost destroyed it.
00:05This film is an experience.
00:07Each part is a visual interpretation of a piece of music.
00:10There is no dialogue, there is no continuous narration,
00:13And it's just music and images.
00:15Disney wanted to transform cinema into a musical experience.
00:18The film was even shown at the time with an innovative sound system.
00:23which is called Fantasound.
00:25This is one of the earliest forms of stereo sound in cinema.
00:28Today, Fantasia is seen as a masterpiece.
00:30In 1940, it was a financial disaster.
00:32The film is too long, too expensive, too experimental.
00:35The Fantasound sound system costs a fortune
00:37and requires specially equipped rooms.
00:40Very few cinemas can project it properly.
00:42World War II cuts off the European market
00:44which is essential for Disney.
00:46And the accounts are plunging into the red.
00:47The studio is taking on a heavy debt.
00:49Mass layoffs will follow.
00:51But Walt Disney refuses to talk about it publicly.
00:53He presents Fantasia as an artistic experience
00:56and not at all like a failure.
00:57And Fantasia would become profitable decades later
01:00thanks to the remaster.
01:01This film is not a visionary triumph,
01:03It's an artistic gamble.
01:04which almost caused Disney to disappear completely.
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