# Fantasia (1940) puts Stravinsky, Beethoven, and Mussorgsky before a mass picture audience as pictured music

Date: 1940

## The fact

The same 13 November 1940 Fantasia that gated seats also put The Rite of Spring, the Pastoral, and Night on Bald Mountain in front of a picture audience, including children who would not buy symphony tickets. [Disney](/people/walt-disney) did not compose the Rite. Stokowski and the studio’s music staff are shared. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Biography.com — Walt Disney at https://www.biography.com/business-leaders/walt-disney (Biography.com / A&E).

## Context

Split, not twin: one path is luxury roadshow, one is repertory access. Stravinsky’s later annoyance is reception. Later school 16mm cuts are not 1940. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice as Mickey is character-brand mixed neighbourhood. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Biography.com — Walt Disney at https://www.biography.com/business-leaders/walt-disney (Biography.com / A&E).

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

AFI Catalog and Biography.com independently treat Fantasia as a concert-film experiment. Britannica aligns. D23 celebrates the music. No unique music-test-score series is invented. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Biography.com — Walt Disney at https://www.biography.com/business-leaders/walt-disney (Biography.com / A&E).

Official or archival record: AFI Catalog of Feature Films (https://catalog.afi.com/; American Film Institute).

## Significance

Pictured orchestral music for a mass audience is an education path. High confidence on the film; the gate is the other row. Later digital restorations are not the act. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Biography.com — Walt Disney at https://www.biography.com/business-leaders/walt-disney (Biography.com / A&E).

Shared responsibility is part of Fantasia (1940) puts Stravinsky, Beethoven, and Mussorgsky before a mass picture audience as pictured music. Naming Walt Disney does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1940-11-13 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1940 pictured-music feature under Disney. Not established: a unique music-education coefficient. Same date as the gate row, different driver — split paths of one title, as the contract allows for mixed buildings/films. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Biography.com — Walt Disney at https://www.biography.com/business-leaders/walt-disney (Biography.com / A&E).

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Split path from the inequality-of-tickets row of the same premiere. Mixed effects of Fantasia (1940) puts Stravinsky, Beethoven, and Mussorgsky before a mass picture audience as pictured music are separate paths.

## People

- Walt Disney: https://factrail.ai/people/walt-disney

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://catalog.afi.com/
- https://www.biography.com/business-leaders/walt-disney

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wd-fantasia-education