PROKOFIEV & WALT DISNEY-Peter and the Wolf-Animation-Piano

[libbychecks]

Pure Genius.

And Walt had a nose that could sniff out genius.

Then, we had magic.

[Tuber228756]

Get these on DVD . Walt Disney treasures. They're great!

[martimtavares]

is this the real serguei serguevich???

[evglmg]

Gretings from Brazil,Walt Disney a genius of cartoons.

Thank you for your stories and tales.

And Mickey. :P

Rest in Peace.

[Ironstorm30]

This was meant to be a re-enactment of his meeting with Prokofiev to show the viewers what it was like when he was there.

[the14wout]

when thit Walt Disney filmed this

[AngelBaby599]

I remember this from my elementary days. I love this film and whisle Peter's toon often.

[scottlens]

I thought Prokofiev spoke fluent English...

[hemanshera777]

I haven't seen this clip since my Family and I had recorded it on the Disney Channel back in those early times. thanks for the upload

[Doug19752533]

and NO, thats NOT actually Sergei Prokofiev at the piano

[FatBlackFrancis]

@Doug19752533 yes it is.

[ProbradIII]

When this episode (Where Do the Stories Come From?) was released on Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney, it was in black & white. It's a really pity that Disney often neglects to seek out colour elements of their programs. It makes seeing clips like this all the more enchanting :)

[HeyItsSteve93]

I wish I could have met Walt Disney!

[cjvogeding]

My Dad played the tape for me - when I was a kid!

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

I can watch this 1000 times in a row and never get tired of it!!! =)

[ChrisWalkenFan]

since I'm a little girl I am THAT scared of peter and the wulf and together with disney I remember me screaming in my room^^

[laPossibilite]

Is that the real Prokofiev? Or is it just an actor?

[miniyukkie0718]

He is a actor. Prokofiev could speak English fluently.

[am9224]

Peter and the Wolf - 1946

PETER - STRING QUARTET

BIRD - FLUTE

DUCK - OBOE

CAT - CLARINET

GRANDPA - BASSOON

HUNTERS - KETTLEDRUMS

WOLF - FRENCH HORNS

[dominikhimself]

My Answer for the famous Question: "Wich Person of the past would you like to meet?" Is definitly Walter Disney!

[pljms]

Actually Prokofiev lived in the States for a few years after leaving Rusia in 1917 and spoke quite fluent English - I've heard a recording of an interview he gave in English.

[BKkillaz]

the music is what i remember the most out of the older Disney films

[TheGoldenRatio87]

Walt Disney is the God of Happiness

[ReillyVids]

Walt was such an amazing person...

[Deadpool601]

He still is.

[Anthonyliketobattle]

I wouder if Walt Disney if he was still around if he's dissapionted of how Disney's chs. are now, when it used to be 2003, 101 Dalmation, Doug, Herculies, etc etc etc etc etc....

I want that year to come back to this year by puting the old disney hows back, and also having a double feature on Fridays

[jerryaltman]

I hope Walt did not acuse hin of comunist this time.

[0minni0]

Sexy Walt!

[0minni0]

Sexy Walt!

[Roldulffff]

imma learn this someday i promise

[dlyavhoda]

lol missed 'G')

[DoubleDutchBust]

I suppose you know by now,I could have been completley ruined.Without a fight.

c 3:23

[DoubleDutchBust]

DRERICPEARLANDGEORGECoasT 2:43

PROKOFIEV & WALT DISNEYET W O 3:13

DRERICPEARLANDGEORGECoasT 2:17

3:28 3:56

[MillerMusicStudiosTV]

This is fabulous! Are you sure that isn't Prokofiev himself? That is a *great* pianist! The way he played the music, it seemed to me that this was the composer himself.  Does someone know for sure?

Di

[ssprokofiev]

That was definitely NOT Prokofiev. There is very little resemblance between the actor/musician who played him in the film and Prokofiev himself. Both were bald and that's about the only physical characteristic the two shared.

[dlyavhoda]

it`s not him indeed. and prokofiev spoke english not 'a little', but wery well.

[mattfinnish]

This kind of stuff was OK when I was a kid, but I can't stand this staged Disney crap. Are we supposed to believe that Prokofiev came to LA sometime in 1938... two years after returning to the Soviet Union PERMANENTLY... or did Walt make a trip to USSR so that Prok could pitch his little story? That outfit they put Walt in for this "re-creation" looks very much like the one he wore in the photo used on the book WD: An American Original. I doubt Prok even knew of the changes made to his story.

[ssprokofiev]

Prokofiev did, in fact, travel to the US in 1938 and did visit the Walt Disney Studios and other movie studios. The fellow portraying him in this video is an actor/musician who bears a very remote resemblance to the composer. Prokofiev was offered $2,500 per week, a colossal sum at the time, to write film scores in Hollywood. The offer was made by Vernon Duke's agent. Prokofiev turned it down, preferring the inspiration he got living in Russia.

[mattfinnish]

What is your source for this information?

[ssprokofiev]

My source for this info is to be found in numerous biographies. It is also mentioned in the notes of several recordings. You can search it on Google and verify it. Type in "Prokofiev Hollywood Studios".

[DoubleDutchBust]

Sean-yesWalt

YOUSEEMEBC

WALTDISNEYN

MAYEIGHTHDBC

Thank UKALIEL MyBell

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[MathijsGiltjes1993]

What a great look-a-like!!:P

[perito8]

the coment i post back is for the poeple ho canot apreciat the good things in he life like music and walt and really walt is a goo eample of U.S.A. and his people so for all the poeple aout ther ho think this is a lie dont come back plz your yust a lonley person ho thik lifeis not good come back wen u tink all is posible

[4thMG]

I like the little warm up line he did to test the piano

[SushiMooshi]

I MISS U WALT!

[homeworkchic]

hey Im from missouri this truly wonderful

[HarryPotatoSex]

Even If He Didn't Like Jews.

He was a Bloody Genius.

[ktizzler1973]

I wish Walt Disney was my father... :(

I miss you Walt ♥♥♥ Thank you for making the world a bit brighter when you were here...

[fl1992]

Walt Disney was A True Genius! May he always rest in peace in heaven. And as a young cartoonist in St. Louis, Missouri, he was fired by his editor for his lack of creativity!

[Gathol]

howdy!!! my goblin tells me: Rachmaninoff (another formidible pianist/composer not to sound condescending) and he were friends til he played one of Rach's concertos and then turned to him and said "and I bet you thought I couldn't play it" and thus ended their friendship: they never spoke again! Artists!

[shrubbmeister1]

@ktizzler1973 Magnificent!

[M3town3]

WOW! It's really Sergej Prokofiev & Walt Disney at the same time!! AMAZING! SUPERIOR! i can't believe it...

[beatrispits]

that isn't really Prokofiev thou, its just an actor

[perito8]

you think an actor is tat man ok se this noob 1 he is not watching the sheet of the music only the composer can play that way 2 look at his hands it plait like it was know for ever and 3 ur a noob becous u dont know anithing of good music and good people like walt and sergei so dont come back pice of noob.

[dlyavhoda]

he`s just a mere good bald pianist whith glasses lol.

another question is did someone arranged the score, or it`s prokofiev`s original?

[spress15]

@M3town3 - Unfortunately it's not really Sergej Prokofiev, just a pianist they hired. Looks a lot like Prokofiev though. You can see video of the real Sergej here...

watch?v=BVgwaFUfBu8

Or search for it using "Prokofiev plays and talks about his music" uploaded by bramley88.

[thewizzfoz]

Wow in color!

[bus11]

These old Walt Disney clips are really gems. Walt was the best! I wish people would stop throwing around terms like racist. Just about every classic Disney clip on YouTube has some mention of the like. Times have changed a lot since then, and so have peoples sensibilities. Just take it for what it is, a classic piece of Americana (which I guess is now out of fashion in today's atmosphere of forced-multiculturalism).

[programmusic]

Sad that you had to show yourself as a bigot at the end.

[tooncrazy101]

amen to that, amen to that!

:D

[RedcoatMic24]

@bus11 It's out of fashioned because it's out of fashion. Seriously, forced multiculturalism my arse.

[gabrielroizman]

@bus11 Came well until you consider multiculturalism as forced labor!!!

[pulseofthemaggotgirl]

I always loved the wolf's and peter's theme best ^_^

[mike7ace]

when was this originally recorded

[TrumpetQueen1]

Wait, so did he compose that for the Disney version, or had he already done it?

[BeatboxMasturz]

for disney...

[r8p6]

Actually,he composed it first and then wanted Walt to make a cartoon to the music.

[MacSmiley]

BTW, do you really think the composer had need for sheet music to demonstrate his themes (if indeed he ever did so in the first place?) That's a device for the uninformed. I wouldn't call Disney a racist, however, but I would call him condescending... toward his viewers!!

I'm not sure Prokofiev was even in the US in 1938, but I often wonder what the composer thought of Disney's P&tW, since his cartoon version strayed so far from the original "simple, charming story of Peter".

[OorvakanSar]

Yes, Russians are mechanical musicians that play on command once you manage to capture and seize them out of their country. Disney was a racist, you can even see it in this video.

[youngwidow2007]

"Disney was a racist", life back then wasn't at all what it is today with the war and stuff

[ssprokofiev]

This, of course, is not Prokofiev but an actor/musician. Prokofiev could speak and write English quite well. I can't fathom why Walt Disney suggested otherwise.

[Rilbe]

That's Walt Disney himself!

[phlizmo]

yeah but its a dramatization. THey usually hire actors for those..

[MacSmiley]

Disney was nothing but a "tall tales" storyteller, and if he felt a story wasn't dramatic enough, he'd add a bit of apocrypha to it. After all, Prokofiev's libretto says nothing about Peter's ambition to hunt the wolf from the outset of the story. The original said just that he isn't afraid of wolves in case one happened to come along. But that wasn't good enough for old Walt. Same with Sergei allegedly speaking "little" English, after having lived in the US for several years. Check Wikipedia.

[mattfinnish]

Because all that old Disney "behind the scenes" stuff was fake. Anything you see today that is "behind the scenes"... whether it be about one of the parks, some TV show, Dancing with the Stars little rehearsal bits where they go to some salsa club for inspiration (or what-have-you)... it's all completely staged.

[dlyavhoda]

i think he made this a little strange decision to show kids that they could clearly understand each other just through the Prokofiev`s music.