Fantasia (The Rite of Springs)

This is a musical film of fantasia will take you to the beginning of life in prehistoric times.

[barbarapease]

I have loved this since I was 7.I am now 75. This is positively one of my all time favorites.

[darthstarkiller]

Considering this was released in 1940, EIGHTY years ago, it is amazing. Sure nowadays modern paleontologists would find mistakes but it is still amazing. The T-Rex fight still gives me chills.

[kshitijsrivastava]

That "March of death" segment of the dinosaurs still chills me to the bone

[Musicrafter]

In case anyone was wondering why the extinction of the dinosaurs is portrayed this way, the Chicxulub crater wasn't even discovered until 1978. The true cause of their extinction was largely a mystery in 1940, so the rather ambiguous portrayal here was about as good as they were going to get.

[SilverSpiny]

Am I the only one that finds outdated portrayals of prehistoric animals kinda charming ?

[zhengwenyu]

I love how Glorification of the Chosen One is used for the fight against the T-Rex. The Stegosaurus is the Chosen One, and just like the ballet, is the sacrifice.

[joshkoshbgosh]

18:10 there’s something so eerie and unsettling about this scene, going from watching these dinosaurs going from living charmed lives in a lush rainforest to them sluggishly walking through a barren and empty desert with some collapsing from exhaustion while others keep struggling forward. The brass section playing a loud and janky tune while both carnivores and herbivores trudge together in silence without attacking one another is just so unnerving and chilling.

[huldrrrr]

I adore the part where the allosaurus/tyrannosaurus is marching along in the midst of the other dinosaurs towards extinction, previously a fearful apex predator, but now just as weak and helpless as the ones who once where its prey against the forces of nature. Gives me chills

[finnic]

I remember this sequence frightened the living crude out of me as a child, so bad I had nightmares, but for some obscure reason, I would rewatch it over and over again.

[thomashuffman]

Probably THE best animated depiction of the era of the dinosaurs. It doesn't portray the dinosaurs as cutesy cartoon characters or as movie monsters, but, instead, as they actually were: animals.

[Firguy]

According to the DVD commentary for Fantasia: the Rite of Spring segment inspired a fascination with dinosaurs in a young Michael Crichton and that would serve as the crux of his most famous novel, Jurassic Park.

The Rite of Spring is also my personal favorite segment in Fantasia.

[Zackman]

Even though the old theories of the Dinosaurs and prehistoric times are now outdated in Fantasia it’s still fun to watch and learn on how far we’ve come on our understanding of pre history. I grew up watching the original Fantasia and this sequence in the movie is something that I love and will never forget.

[TreeckoJedi]

Fun fact: the original plan was to go all the way up to the age of humans, where humans are dancing around after discovering fire. The scene was cut due to Walt Disney not wanting to get ire from creationists. The cut however was disliked by composer Igor Stokowski, and even turned him away from animation for a long while.

[marktrigg]

I like this particular bit at 14:15. It's sort of foreshadowing what's going to happen. Those dinosaurs could sense something was about to come.

[KuramasSilverstar]

It’s a mastery that back in the early 40s with no computer whatsoever they were able to make this whole piece (and the entire movie)
What especially amazes me is how the lava looks almost alive in a sense but there is no discernible human like features. Well done Disney, well done.

[mykelengieza]

Just kept my 9 yr old quiet and behaved while starving and waiting for His food in a busy restaurant...THANK YOU SO MUCH

[deoxys]

For some reason I find this segment more scary than Night on Bald mountain. I don’t why, but there’s something about this segment I find really unsettling.

[SharksandDinos]

Although we now know this is scientifically inaccurate, it is still nice to take a look at this movie as it serves to be a window that shows us how the field of paleontology evolved throughout the years. And it is nice to see what we thought was accurate back in the 1940s. Plus the animation works greatly with the music and dare I say it, even more than it being played over a ballet.

[AtlasBlizzard]

My favorite segment of Fantasia, and one of the most powerful pieces of animation I've seen in my life. Everything from the music and the early stages of the Earth to the thrilling dinosaurs, this is art.

[JaggedBird]

Outdated as this section is, the story of life's origins this protrays is beautifully grim
THIS is why despite how boring some segments are to kids today, Fantasia still stands it's ground over 80 years later

It's a prioneer of visual-musical story telling, letting Walt's musicians and artists having fun interputating these classical songs and I'm all for it, especially with sections like this and Night on Bald Mountain.