![]() But Disney originally planned for Fantasia to be a recurring and ever-changing thing – re-releasing it every year or so, swapping out older segments for newer ones as they were produced, keeping the popular fan favorites and retiring some of the less-popular ones for newer content. You could also say that Intolerance back in 1916 was an anthology as well. Anthologies-of-films aren’t that novel an idea in and of themselves – the recent Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a live-action example, as is 1993’s Short Cuts and 2006’s Paris, Je T’aime. Basically it’s an anthology of short films, each of which had been inspired by a certain piece of classical music. What struck me, actually, was just how innovative an idea the whole thing was. Mom and I chatted right before I watched this, and she teased me that “I’m glad you’re brave enough to revisit it now!” I don’t remember any of this, so fortunately it doesn’t seem to have scarred me. ![]() So it wasn’t until we were sitting in the theater, with me wide-eyed at the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence and my mother whispering to me that everything was going to be okay, that they realized their mistake. My parents probably made the mistake common to a lot of young parents – they saw it was a Disney film, thought “okay, perfect for kids” and didn’t investigate further (or if they’d seen it when they were younger, they forgot about it). I was about three, so it was either just before or after my brother was born most likely in the indie theater at the state university campus the next town over from where I grew up. ![]() According to family lore, Fantasia was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. ![]()
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