Fantasia 1940 - The Rite of Spring - Part 1: Genesis

[maiwork6666666]

The song that started a riot

[CynicalRaven461]

I still can't get over the fact that the opening of this piece is done with a bassoon.

[Delfedd]

Interesting fact: When this ballet was first performed, the audience Literally rioted. Their ears didn't know how to deal with the sound of the constant sharp notes.

[villi1997]

im so looking forward to kingdom hearts 3D because there will be a fantasia 1940 world

[Monica17N]

The Disney artists were amazing, the lava looks sooo hot. But when I look at it I think of reaally hot and salty spaghetti sauce with cheese and then it reminds me of heartburn. Anyone else get that feeling when seeing that ooey gooey orange lava?

[Doum92]

@Monica17N Haha, you are right :P

[Thecrazykielbasa]

This recording is well, quoting Stravinsky himself, execrable.

[ChuckDuke1]

since this is Disney's interpretations of the song, and Stravinsky originally intended for the song to depict the beginnings of mankind, I would love to see his own animation. just to compare the two :) see what Stravinsky wanted us to see.

[sparklingstone15]

@ChuckDuke1

Actually, it's a ballet, and it's not the beginnings of mankind, it's supposed to depict a yearly pagan ritual, a virgin sacrifice that supposedly blesses the new year. If you search for "rite of spring nijinsky choreography" i'm sure you'd find it and see what he originally intended.

[MrMauser91]

My favorite part !

Mon partie préfférée !

[2tanyeri]

3:33 long time no see,how you been İgor.....

[shugocharadoki14]

This helped me a lot in my Biology test! :D

[cRazYhYPerPenGuin]

Dinosaurs are pretty intense.

[Sofakingbeastn]

3:28 i thought of Hell when I saw this part. it kinda scares me.

[DarkRedDragonOfEgypt]

its a brilliant masterpiece a fantastic piece of musical history given physical shape and if I may say Igor Stravinsky himself was quite pleased with this piece and even TOLD Walt Disney that his way of telling his musical pieces was actually what the man had in mind to begin with so congrats to the Disney Animators on their spectacular interpretation of this music

[pennderin21]

@DarkRedDragonOfEgypt

Disney basically told Stravinsky that they were going to use his piece, if he declined they would use it anyway, they then had their own composers change his piece to make it fit the animation better. Stravinsky received very little pay in return. Stravinsky wrote this piece to represent primitive rituals of man. So no, go check your facts brah.

[WilipichinXP]

I don't see nothing else here but genius!

[TheKingGTut]

no way a human created this piece

[kevincarey79]

51 dislikes? What? WHY?

[darthgrahf]

The whole Rite of Spring has such eerie music. It's not in your face hellish like Night on Bald Mountain, but still scary in a way. Even the serene evolution/dinosaur bit had that, "You know something's gonna happen soon" feel.

[mbpiccolopanda]

This is one of my favorite pieces. Odd you say? Yes, you would be correct.

[neferno2alex]

@mbpiccolopanda You are not alone privy one

[MorteIncarnata]

@mbpiccolopanda Are you from the United States? Your nickname sounds Italian.

[Henbot]

@MorteIncarnata lool never heard of italian americans? 

[MorteIncarnata]

@Henbot Ahah yes of course you're right! XD

[RiyoYukai]

Thumbs up if Radiolab.org brought you here...?

Somehow I doubt many people on youtube know of radiolab. But it's freaking awesome.

[Returnofthejedi1000]

Ahhh, memories.

[fourtoedsloth]

this song makes me wanna break shit

[isaachill87]

It opens quietly, with no hints of the violence to come. The first outbreak occurs with the strings hammering out a repeated dessonant chord, while wind instruments can be heard in the background, playing fragments of themes. Stravinsky creates a sense of excitement by repeating the same rhythm obsesively, while violently stressing some of the notes. When the heavy brass instruments enter, they bring an ominous tone, but soon we return to the hammering string chords. BAD ASS!

[RachelBlack13]

Love this part of the movie!

[Bradatimrkonja]

So this is Stravinsky?

[NyxAeterna]

@Bradatimrkonja Yes, this is The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky.

[AnnaRoberts9]

OK...people seem to be loving this part of Fantasia. Was I the only one who was so fucking scared of this part I destroyed the video?? Although I'm rather fond of this part now that I'm all grown up 'n' all ;D

[ApatheticElph33]

@AnnaRoberts9 Didn't destroy it, the scene where the dinosaurs brawl it out freaked me out. It's always the crazy strings action and heightened orchestrated booms... lol but ya this is GREAT now

[AnnaRoberts9]

@ApatheticElph33 haha xD Best Disney classic EVER imo. :)

[manakin94]

what makes fantasia amazing, was the fact that most films include music, but isntead the music included a film, but tbf there is nothing like getting really high and watching this film (:

[TheYuuzhan]

One reason why Fantasia is so legendary is because it is the first film to really depict the history of prehistoric Earth. Although much of it was inaccurate, it truly was incredible, even to this day...

[ligicatlab]

Best American orchestra...go Philorch.org

[xXScreamochick1Xx]

Best bassoon solo EVER. :) 

[andraken]

3:22 Jaws theme

[DarthConnis]

52 idiot creationists watched this video.

[Attakijing]

skrillex's inspiration

[meowkie]

4:36 always confuses me. What on Earth happened D: did the ground just collapse?

[Doum92]

@meowkie Those are called super-volcano and there are few right now that could explode and destroy almost everything on Earth. Yellowstone for instance.

[meowkie]

@Doum92 Well, I know that all of the volcanoes went off at once, like the supervolcano effect, but it just confuses me how the ground sort of deflates, and then suddenly there's this aerial view... :/ And yeah. I know about the one under yellowstone park...there is a reason it scares me, hahahaha!

[jrdennis95]

3:20 is why I have self diagnosed madness.

[darthgrahf]

4:34 Can...lava really shoot that high?

[djhypnotizarofficial]

Maybe this film inspired my vision of musical art....it was lettery the first movie i ever saw...i was like...3 years old or something like that?

[WickedWitchElphaba]

Is it sad that this sequence scared me more than Night on Bald Mountain? O.o

[SitaraAleu]

@WickedWitchElphaba

Absolutely not, This whole segment scared the living daylights out of me when I was little and still kinda does.

[AlexanderKnollwood]

if 2012 were to ever come true, i'd watch this video last. beginning of it all. good times

[xXKissTehCookXx]

@AlexanderKnollwood It IS real. 2012 comes true in 3 days.

[myusernaime]

@AlexanderKnollwood It seems 2012 came true, who'd say?? :O

[Peenut2k7]

The Little Einsteins possesed the Lava Bubbles.

[lappinlover]

the first three notes sound like something else ive heard before ... hmm

[AHilsen]

@lappinlover It was probably from Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun =]

[lappinlover]

@AHilsen thankyou!~ :)

[lappinlover]

@AHilsen thankyou!~:)

[ryttu3k]

Man, I was so obsessed with this sequence when I was little. ...And then I went on to study palaeontology and astronomy. Awesome.

[ryoushii]

Always found this interesting, considering the picture Stravinsky had was of a primative tribe, committing a sacrifice of a young girl by having her dance herself to death as the tribal elders watched.

[TheRebelion009]

look at us were grown up men blabering about how good these movies were back then and we friggin miss those times... :)

[SinDawg030]

@TheRebelion009 Says something about Walt Disney's genius doesn't it?

[TheRebelion009]

@SinDawg030 yeah it does....

[darthgrahf]

When I was a kid, I found this first part both frightening and fascinating at the same time

[blackwoodbaritone]

If Stravinsky were alive today he would "dislike this." In fact, he DID dislike it when it was made. :P

[lsbrgss]

This is so dope!!!!! love it!!

[stoneybones22]

I love how creative this film is... Was and still is one of my favorite Disney films.. It is so abstract and mezmorizing. a truly magnificient piece of art!

[kevmizter5]

here it is, the song that started a riot.

[acidicguitrist]

@kevmizter5 Psh, it wasn't a riot, it was a mosh pit xD

[ilovemuslimfood666]

@kevmizter5 It's true, the theater patrons did start a riot when this piece first performed. Look it up! :)

[PoppyTheToppy]

Probably the most epic video ever! 7:03 to end is my favourite part (great camera angle).

[bondiga10]

From Earths chaotic and noble birth to how much we have fucked it up.

[xrileyxbearx]

at 4:06 that part of the song reminds me off the Siamese twins song in lady and the tramp :3

[jakedp100]

The Rite of Spring is just like Return to Neverland.

[mightyafrowhitey]

The next time they do Fantasia they have to include Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun by Debussy or at least SOMETHING by Debussy. La Mer or Nocturnes or something. Hats off to them for doing Stravinsky twice though :)

[FleisherClampett]

Fantasia turned me on to both Beethoven and the great Stravinsky! Thank you Fantasia!

[TheAnnaGurlisBack]

:( I remember I watched this when I was in hospital ....Loved it!

[sydneyray064]

@TheAnnaGurlisBack What were you in the hospital for? 0_o

[LukeWratten]

I do not envy the person who had to animate the bubbles of lava

[GoGojiraGo]

I love how after the lava hits the ocean, the water actively climbs up the cliff, rampages inland and practically attacks the volcano.

[roetemeteor]

@GoGojiraGo

The volcano was asking for it.

[lcjj7]

I love this film. Good memories of being sick as a little kid and watching this video while I was off school while being looked after by my mum

[ollielongworthful]

man this film scared the shit out of me when i was younger......this and dumbos elephants on parade.....

[oxlena]

@ollielongworthful What about the Heffalumps and Woozles from Winnie The Pooh?

[IntoAMystery]

Is it just me, or was anyone else completely and totally freaked out by Fantasia when they were a kid? I mean, I loved the pegasus and centaur/cherub parts, but this? This whole burbling lava, freaky-mountains-splintering out of the ground, t-rex mauling a stegosaurus thing, PLUS Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' (possibly the scariest music in the world to a little kid) as accompaniment? Totally traumatized.

And don't get me started on how freaky 'Night on Bald Mountain' was. o.o

[Kurotaisa]

@IntoAMystery

Really? Maybe I was a weird kid But I loved all this freaky stuff.

Then again, I've been playing Resident Evil since I was 8, so maybe I AM that weird.

[Heisenberg85]

God exixsts!!! Dont deny it or you will die from going to hell! It hurts big time

[Shift9001]

@Heisenberg85 "It hurts big time"...Yes, that's the best argument you could've possibly used there.

Way to convince people.

Oh I know something you can do! You could post this at a video that actually is about stuff like what faith you have or something, instead of posting it on a Disney movie clip.

TL;DR

We don't care.

[oscarmike1985]

@Shift9001

don't indulge him. let's just ignore him and enjoy Stravinsky and the incredible animation.

[MorteIncarnata]

Guys, I think Heisenberg85 was being sarcastic.

[lewisham1990]

I first saw this when I was 5 and it terrified me, I didn't understand what this was at all! Such a haunting piece of music, but still sublime!

[LAchyM3]

this is superb

[CrystalRaye]

3:22 scares the shit out of my every time even though I know it's coming

[tinpax1]

This song really makes you feel alone.



[imnotkid1]

@nilesblvd -.- at least disney movies then were good

[einhander876]

That towering behemoth volcano at 5:28 still scares me to this day. Its not explosive or loud just quietly flowing lava in massive amounts. For some reason the sheer size of it and the way it looks just gets me to the core. But its still awsome!

[08mcrisp]

Does anyone know who is playing the Rite of Spring here? It is very interesting to hear it done so differently to how we play it now. It is absolute genius!

[ifeeltiredsleepy]

@08mcrisp All the music from the film is performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

[Caprifemme]

MAGIC MADE BY DISNEY BACK THEN...!! FANTASIA WILL REMAIN AS A MASTERPIECE FOR AS LONG AS THERE IS TIME!!

[0etmoen666]

@fennaru tea that's right. Disney channel sucks hard.

[CrystalRaye]

This movie both terrified and enthralled me as a child. Scratch that! This movie both terrifies and enthralls me as an ADULT.

[SimpleeAndrea]

My God! This man was a genius.

[Peenut2k7]

SINGING VOLCANOES

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

One of the most disturbing memories of my childhood, this film.

[HieclexsXiii]

Walt picked a bad time to release his early movies though. 1940? Really? During the time when there was a war going on? No wonder they nearly went bankrupt. Thank god they didn't though because Disney is great.

[fennaru]

@HieclexsXiii correction.... disney WAS great

[lilmissmusic2012]

To me, the last real good disney cartoon was The Princess and the Frog. I really like that movie.

[supernerd38]

As if this music wasn't awesome enough, the solo at the beginning is for BASSOON!

[hopelessromantic1311]

I love this part!! You could say it's creepy, but it is SOO cool with the animation and the music put together!!!

[KameronID]

I guess it kind of helps when the man with the vision is, you know, alive to see that vision.

[vixen3634]

this is my favourite segment in the whole movie!!!

[hopelessromantic1311]

@vixen3634 mine too!! 

[billyhammet]

i have never seen the movie before but come on who does'nt remember the sorcere's apprentice or the monster from bald mountain but i don't think i will be seeing it any time soon, the music's creepy and the animation makes it look even creepy'er. but then again i do like scary and trippy looking things.

[0180917]

My god, it's full of stars.

[Serpo71]

Fantasia is used in secret government mind control programs to program little children. It is called Moarch programing. Disney has been affiliated with the Illuminati and intelligence community for decades. They have been brainwashing people for many years. Walt Disney was a 33rd degree mason. People, Disney is an evil company that needs to be exposed!!!!

[colujomes]

@Serpo71 I think you mean Monarch programming. Unless...oh my God! They've gotten to you as well.

[Serpo71]

@colujomes Yeah, sorry, I was typing fast. And no I fight this and try to educate people about it. You're probably a disinformation agent trying to make me look like a paranoid kook....

[konspiracykid]

@Serpo71 LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOL­OLOLOLOLOL zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzz

[KeeperOfPorridge]

I couldn't believe it at first when I discovered this film was made in the 1940s. So ahead of it's time and yet it's still one of the best animated films I've seen.

[manaphy21]

I have always pondered whether the artists depicted that earth collided with aother planet during the early stages, hence why all the volcanoes exploded?

[Hellsbellshell]

I wish Disney was the way it used to be. nowadays we got the Hannah Montana crap and Disney movies suck in comparison to the awesomeness of the golden era of Disney animation.

[Saturn5rockstheworld]

@Hellsbellshell You say that, but the irony is that this movie nearly bankrupted Disney. It was a complete flop, costing more than 2 million to produce and only earning about half of that. People were confused when it came out, they'd never seen anything like it. On top of that, Pinocchio, Walt's last movie, cost just as much to make and only recouped about 1.4 million. If it hadn't been for the runaway success of Dumbo afterwards the studio almost certainly would've folded.

[kirbybro4]

@Hellsbellshell its just that motion picture was cool,but from there everything is just more crappyier.(the beginning of it was good though like monsters inc.)

[zombiefan011]

@Hellsbellshell the princess and the frog might have been the beginning of the second disney renaissance had anyone gone to see it can only blame ourselves for that one

[TheDustBunnyKing]

@Hellsbellshell cool story bro

[MrSkeleton16]

@Hellsbellshell I wish Walt Disney could have lived for ever I mean he was the line between good and 2011

[saulwilliams56]

@Hellsbellshell pfft all entertainment, has been watered down over the decades, like everything else

[lovelylalabird]

@Hellsbellshell some of the movies are ok tho I mean the movies of today arn't all bad

[DemonKittenz]

@Hellsbellshell True, so very true. Sometimes I find it a little hard to believe that nowadays Disney moves are actually Disney movies. I feel they've totally ruined the image of Disney animation and movies alike.

[Andyp12]

Ah music from my childhood, im so glad I had the oppourtunity to listen to this on VHS as a child.

[selGdemparamtwilight]

So so so pretty!1

[HeyRuka]

This really puts life into perspective. The music is the perfect theme for the primordial soup of our beginning.

[MeowMyan]

@HeyRuka oh the hormonal primordial soup, rebel and uncontrollable. RED IS THE COLOR *___*

[HeyRuka]

This part always gave me nightmares as a little girl. ALWAYS. But I never skipped this part, I loved it.

[NEMERITEANDSHUNI]

I had nightmares cause of that lol

[GreenCollegeMan]

There Needs to be a Fantasia ride, and a Tron Light Cycle ride at the Disney Hollywood Studios.

[gxrcix525]

Umm this movie is fucken creepy and ibe never actually seen it first time the music is creepy

[Seradinea]

I love the music it is so lovely and inspiring.

[videofreakboy91]

cool

[TheJboy88]

If I ever have kids, THIS will be the Disney film I show them first.

Just like I was.

[hopelessromantic1311]

@TheJboy88 me too!!! :)

[dbindianasolo]

To think that Fantasia was not well-received at all when it was first released.

[MeowMyan]

@dbindianasolo that's just how art is~♥ controversial~♥

[MxAxRxK]

oh wow i havnt seen this in ages

[ArdereWolf]

Possibly the most amazing movie EVER.

[xxchocolatexx1996]

i remeber seeing this when i was real little and i remeber it was when i used to stay at my nans sometimes all week and this was the only 'kids' movie my nan had.

[dramakittymeow]

You know... dinosaurs are AWESOME

[joru100]

Both the animation and composition were well ahead of their times.

[thecellofreak]

@clozee22: why don't you search up fritz Meier (the person who wrote that article) on google and come back. And then you can tell me who was horrible and what's the truth.

[PayNoAttentiontoCaes]

"Stravinsky's omonimous score"

Do you mean ominous?

[Roxas70]

interesting tidbit when this song was first performed as a ballet it caused a riot in France

[bord2heck]

of course even hell is musical in disneys eyes

[darwishflow]

Hard to illustrate such a deep piece.. But that is a very creative illustration. Bravi to the studio!

[Transformerfan117]

(For all of the artists out there) Can you imagine drawing/painting every single frame for such a long peice? Now, we can just use a computer programe for this... (But nothing can compare to this cartoon!)

[jecka1021]

I think this was the one I understood the least from fantasia

[godzilla964]

You I've been thinking. What if disney had a theme park in japan and made an exhibit called Monster Island. Where you would see anamatromic godzilla monsters. Kinda like this one exhibit in the magic kingdom, i think, where you would see anamatromic animals and hear a tour guide.

[MermaidJassica]

for some reason the music at the begining reminded me of first star wars and than peter pan ^^

[FlowerEmblem]

This is helping me study for my music history exam :)

[MsAnimeFreak16]

Thank you SO MUCh for uploading this! I've been looking for Fantasia for FOREVER

[HornGoddess08]

Igor Stravinsky was a genius before his time with this piece... People of the time couldn't appreciate it; caused the biggest music premiere riot in history..

[exarkunrocks]

@4:38 shit's going down... love it

[neravairathethird]

This isn't really an evolution v creationism thing - but now that I think about it, I'm actually quite surprised that Disney did this in 1940 - I thought there was still a lot of anti-evolution sentiment in America then?

[Marbles471]

@neravairathethird

I've wondered about that, too. But I think back then anti-evolutionism and reactionary Christianity in general, while they were certainly part of the national fabric, hadn't formed a cohesive political force. That didn't really happen until the late 1970s.

[06HockeyFreak06]

spelt ominous wrong in the desc.

[divinexlx]

I would look away at this scene, though I loved it. The thought of giant dinosaurs scared me. Especially when that big old T-Rex came out. D: AHHH! I used to watch this movie daily though. Guess who's a musician now? hahah

[Visnu2007]

I was TOTALLY terrified as the earthquake occured after the dinosaurs death... so devastating scene!!!

[charmander4533]

3:22 I couldn't handle it as a kid

[dartigens10]

I always liked that little bit at the start. Could swear I've heard it elsewhere...has The Rite of Spring ever been used in any other soundtracks?

It amazed me that nobody stopped to think of a different interpretation of The Rite of Spring. Especially with some of the later parts, it sounds very complicated to dance to. IMO, sounds like it belongs better in a sci-fi movie, or an old-school horror movie, at some parts.