100 Movies Every Catholic Should See #3: Fantasia (1940)

Produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Music conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

In 1940, Walt Disney Studios would produce the two greatest films of its nearly 100-year existence: Pinocchio, their best children’s morality tale (and perhaps a future pick for this list), and Fantasia. Fantasia was an experiment, an imaginative gamble, an attempt to merge the visual creativity of animation with the very best classical music to create a new high art form for the movie-going public. It contains some of Walt Disney and his animators’ finest creative efforts and was meant to be a symphony for the eyes as well as the ears, introducing the classical masters to a wider audience and providing those already familiar with these pieces a visual feast to inspire new appreciation for them.