Day #6 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #6 of The 30 Day Film Challenge.

Okay, now it is getting into "favorites" and honestly? I can't pick one favorite - it's like saying what's your favorite fruit or book. Not happening for me.

So, I'm changing it from "your favorite animated film" to "A favorite animated film". You can pick one or the other - up to you. I'm going with "a favorite".

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The film director did many others, but this is my favorite of his films.

Comments

[wendelah1]

Fantasia. I love the music and the animation. I saw it in a theater with my family-of-origin in the sixties and again with son and husband in the nineties--it was probably the 50th anniversary in 1990, which had the original musical recordings and a restored print. I loved it.

[shadowkat]

I think they changed it slightly though for the 50th? There's a section that was edited out - due to possible racist implications?

I loved the 50th Anniversary edition as well. It's animation to classical music. My favorite numbers are the dance of spring, Ave Maria, and Night on Skull's Mountain.

[wendelah1]

I think the section you're referring to was edited out even earlier than that, in the late sixties according to Wikipedia. I've heard of it but I don't recall it. Though, maybe there was another controversial section removed for the 50th?

[shadowkat]

I think you might be right. The release in the 70s had it. The one in the 1990s did not. It's in the spring segment with the black lambs. (I think that's it.) I didn't pick up on it at all at the time. Any more than I picked up on the racist elements in Song of the South. I mean I can see why a lot of people had issues with it - but it can be interpreted more than one way. It's not the same as Gone with the Wind.