unleashed to join its wildest imaginings to the compositions of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Bach. The music was interpreted by Leopold Stokowski, conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, and recorded in the "Fantasound" process, an early stereophonic system developed by Disney in conjunction with RCA. Artistically, it was the first feature to use music accompanied by animated images--dancing flowers, fairies and gossamer fish--in abstract concert, as well as in place of dialogue to tell a story.
As it happened, Fantasia was never quite the success that its creators had envisioned, and over the years it was shortened, the stereophonic Fantasound system was simplified, and the colo
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