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Director: Ben Sharpsteen supervisor
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From Time Out Film Guide
Renowned abstract film-maker Oskar Fischinger, employed in a distant capacity on the Bach sequence, called this Disney effort a 'conglomeration of tastelessness'. He wasn't kidding. Only the Dukas Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence, with Mickey Mouse, where the storyboard is effectively provided by the composer, achieves a respectable kind of success. For the rest, Disney's attempts at the visual illustration of Beethoven and Co - a dubious exercise anyway - produce Klassical Kitsch of the highest degree. Awesomely embarrassing; but some great sequences for all that, and certainly not to be missed.Author: GB
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- Joe said...
- Posted on Nov 15 2010 16:57 So sorry you find one of filmdom's great masterpieces "awsomely embarrassing" but most of us do not.
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