Commentary meme

Let's try this again...

Request any fic of mine and I will provide you with a commentary/annotations, like a DVD extra.

Movie: Fantasia

I think I may have seen this movie a long time ago, but I didn't remember it very well.

I hadn't realized the narrator was Deems Taylor! One of my favorite books when I was growing up was a collection that he edited of retellings of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas with illustrations. His introduction to "Dance of the Hours" was a masterful bit of deadpan.

I enjoyed all the sequences. Some were almost hallucinatory - the "Dance of the Hours" reminded me of nothing so much as the Heffalumps and Woozles sequence in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. (It also had us going, "So that's where the "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" melody comes from!") I adored the little fairies in the Nutcracker Suite, but the "My Little Pony" cuteness of the mythological sequence set to the Pastoral Symphony made it my least favorite. metherion was especially interested in the Night on Bald Mountain sequence because the demon who unfolds from the mountain is a character in Kingdom Hearts. And of course, "The Sorceror's Apprentice" is a classic! And I liked the period during the intermission when the orchestra relaxed by jamming in a jazz style.