Carabosse and Fantasia Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 3 pm

Carabosse and Fantasia

Sun, Dec 11, 2016
3 pm

A watercolor of a sketch from the film Fantasia. Mickey Mouse and a walking broom are seen in shadow
A watercolor of a sketch from the film Fantasia. Mickey Mouse and a walking broom are seen in shadow

Disney Studio Artist, Story Sketch for Fantasia, 1940. Watercolor on board and gum-based cel paint on cellulose acetate, 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (17.1 × 22.2 cm). Walt Disney Animation Research Library, Glendale, CA  © Disney

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The Susan and John Hess Family Theater is equipped with an induction loop and infrared assistive listening system. Accessible seating is available.

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Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater

Lawrence Jordan’s jewel-like blue-tinted animation film Carabosse is projected on a small white card sitting on a music stand in the center of the theater, with the soundtrack of Satie’s piano music filling the room. This contrast of scale between image and sound reverses the traditional hierarchy of cinema, and intensifies the film’s surreal, dreamlike quality, and its presence as an object.

This rare screening of Fantasia (1940) provides the opportunity to experience Disney’s classic concert film on the big screen with surround sound, immersing the viewer in color and music, and re-visiting the first thirteen presentations of the film using The Walt Disney Studios’ Fantasound, a unique multi-channel sound system specially invented in 1940 for the film.

Lawrence Jordan (b. 1934), Carabosse, 1980
Walt Disney Animation StudiosFantasia, 1940

Tickets are required ($12 adults, students, and seniors; free for members). Doors open thirty minutes before the program begins. Ticket holders are guaranteed admission until the start of the program, at which time any unclaimed seats will be released.


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