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Fantasia The Sorcerer's Apprentice educational online |
| music by Paul Dukas, who tells us the story of Goethe's famous poem; section from Fantasia (1940) movie |
DescriptionIs a story of wizard's meek assistant who attempts to work some of the magical feats of his master, before he knows how to properly control them. Mickey plays the role of the apprentice, who causes a broom to come to "life" and perform his chore. Mickey directs the broom in his chore but falls asleep and dreams that he is a powerful wizard controlling the mighty seas and starry skies. Awakening to find that the basin is overflowing and the broom is still filling it up. Mickey races to the wizard's spellbook looking for a counter-spell, but to no avail. After nearly drowning in a giant whirlpool, Mickey is rescued by the wizard, who magically halts the flood and causes the brooms to vanish. |
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The educational section for every young person who learns online good quality music is included in Fantasia movie music. Directed by James Algar. Story development: Perce Pearce and Carl Fallberg. Art direction: Tom Codrick, Charles Phillipi, and Zack Schwartz. Background painting: Claude Coats, Stan Spohn, Albert Dempster, and Eric Hansen. Animation supervisors: Fred Moore and Vladimir Tytla. Animation: Les Clark, Riley Thompson, Marvin Woodward, Preston Blair, Edward Love, Ugo D'Orsi, George Rowley, and Cornett Wood. NotesGoethe's poem is a ballad in fourteen stanzas (a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation). A sorcerer also known as a magician, mage, warlock, witch, wizard/wizardess, enchanter/enchantress, or spell caster, is someone who uses or practices magic derived from supernatural, occult, or arcane sources. Watch musics from original movie soundtrack |
