Ponchielli Dance of the Hours from the 1940 Disney film Fantasia

From the opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli. Finale of ostriches, hippos, elephants, gators: Madame Upanova, Hyacinth Hippo, Elephanchine, Ben Ali Gator.
0:00 Diminuendo
0:33 Allegro Vivacissimo (Can-Can)
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[BakerStreetLady]

I'm 32 years old and have been watching this since I was a kid. This scene gets funnier every time I watch it, I miss this kind of animation!

[sabridottavio]

My younger sister and I used to reenact this scene over and over again when we were little…love that movie so much…precious memories…makes me cry 😢😭❤️🙏🏼

[Lycanthromancer]

I have no idea what's going on, but it's still a better love story than Twilight.

[solinvictus]

In 18 years this masterpiece will be 100 years old. Take a few minutes and think about it.

[renatonunes]

So Beautiful. Disney cartoons were once famous for introducing great classic pieces of music as part of the cartoons .Saw this first time over 70 years ago and still like it !

[brianjacobson]

Dance of the Hours is easily my second favorite segment of Fantasia after the finale. It is so atmospheric.

[clvvntiem]

probably one of the horniest segments of animation ever put to film.

[MaasdfgcQwerty]

It starts all calm and floaty then it ends in absolute pandemonium. I love it.

[albertnash]

After “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, “Dance of the Hours” is perhaps Fantasia’s second most popular segment, as it’s dancers are used in much of Fantasia’s promotional material.

[CaladonianQueen]

I love what a flirty little temptress the main hippo is. She's so clearly utterly convinced of her own irresistible-ness. Then again; the main 'gator seems to be super into it, so maybe she's right. You go girl.

As a kid, though, there was this weird charge to this whole segment that gave me confused feelings. To this day I don't know is the 'gators are taking all of the women to eat them or ravish them. Hopefully not both.

'Gators: they're here for your women...

[biffyqueen]

My mom would have been 70 today, and she loved this part.

[JoeTheXC]

Absolute best piece of Fantasia in terms of both music and story!

[erainmartinez]

This is the best scene I ever watched as a kid

[jeanieclemmens]

A thrilling combination of good music and expert Disney cartoon delight

[douglasmurphy]

For those wondering the meaning behind this dance: Walt Disney created this as a parody of overly dramatic and horribly-acted operas. Disney never saw the appeal in making a play whose sole purpose was to make you feel depressed instead of sending a message or providing satire. This piece of Fantasia contrasts as a funny, light-hearted dance in comparison to the heavier and more serious songs to show that even the most serious of cases can take an easier turn in life. Gators and Hippos are natural enemies in the wild, but here they're running around, falling in love, and dancing with each other.

[jensmith]

Are the alligators trying to eat them? And I love how the main hippo girl is like "Yup! I'm big but I'm beautiful!"

[King_Colombia_Inc]

We need Fantasia 3. No reason, we just *DO!*

[christinaburton]

The animation is superb..those shadows.. no computers ..

[devanhinskey]

Some of the animators who worked on this segment (such as Preston Blair and Ray Patterson) would later leave Disney for the MGM cartoon studio and work on many Tom and Jerry and Tex Avery cartoons. I can definitely see the sensibilities of those toons in some of the more slapsticky moments here.

[coraline]

When I was a kid, I would always fast-forward to this part when the segment started because THIS whole part was my favorite out of the whole segment XD