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  • I don't like this.. I love this. Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful piece with me, it is so sad that it was edited from the film. I thank you for giving me the chance to have it on my favourites. Totally perfect, flawless in every way. This has always been my favourite piece of all time. :-)

  • I can see why this scene was removed in the editing process. Clair de lune is a great classic music ,but being slow it would of slown the feature down worse

  • This is so beautiful, they just don't make stuff like this anymore.

  • Is there anybody who has seen flamingos flying in the night?

  • @emalaith29 I think they were supposed to be herons =)

  • @rorolilred Yes, I agree with you. They are herons. Anyway, they don't fly in the night :)

  • @emalaith29 I am not English-speaking, so the word "flamingo" occurred to me in the previous post. What i meant is that the birds represented in the movie have no nocturne habits

  • @emalaith29 Ooh ok. Maybe they couldn't sleep? =)

  • @rorolilred Yes they are supposed to be Herons, :-)

  • @emalaith29 I actually did see a heron flying at about midnight the other night! It was so beautiful =)

  • I heard once that disney intended to change in any projection of the movie a scene, to combine every time a different movie and make people say they wouldn't be able to see the same movie twice. It was very ambitious, but then also USA was struck in World War II and the project was abandoned. Maybe this part belongs to those clips who were intended to replace some old ones in the random view - yet it's very beautiful (@xLoliXKittyx and others who were asking, I hope I heped a bit)

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  • This is so beautiful and peaceful. It truly is a shame it was not included in the cut.

  • So beautiful...

  • Who decided not to put this in the movie?! I love Fantasia, I think it is one of Walt Disney's best ideas. :D

  • Forever In Love With The Fantasia Movies.

  • It seems like such a waist to go through all the trouble of creating such a beautifully animated short and never showing it to anyone.

  • thank You

  • I was looking at some old Fantasia videos here, and I just bumped into this.

    I didn't even know it existed. Claude Debussy is my favourite composer. Clair de lune always makes me cry.

    Walt Disney could have thought about trying to avoid giving heart attacks to people. :)

    This is beauty.

  • why was this deleted??

  • Why was this scene removed?

  • I is so beautifull !

    Such a dreamsong!

  • I don't understand, what was political incorrect with this beautiful viceo? The birds...?

  • @missbs1 nothing was politically incorrect with this part of the film. The part that contained centaurs had a shot where negro-like centaurs served the cocasian-like centaurs, which was offensive to a lot of people so they've removed it in the sixties.

  • That's so pretty, I like some of the workingwith the ripples, it made it beautiful. The truth be told, I'm disappointed, the problem with editing things like this was kind of stupid...political correctness, the problem is this is part of our animation history that was being censored. Part of history isn't pretty.

  • I miss my Sasha...I hope not so many moons will have to pass before I see her and the rest of my family again... and while she and the others wait for me to be reunited with them again that they aren't in a dark, sad looking place like the lonely Crane in this clip...I like to imagine them all in a happy, sunny place, filled with sunshine, trees, grass & flowers...Please be there waiting for me - I'll be looking for you all...

  • This always makes me cry. It was my mother's favorite piece and she played it on her piano often. Every time I lose a family member, friend or one of my "Forever Children", I pray that there is a heaven and that we will be together again. When I watch this clip, I see how many moons seem to pass before the crane is reunited with it's friend. I hope my father didn't have to wait too long (He passed away 10 years prior to my mom) and that his wait wasn't in the sad cold darkness. <3 U Sasha..

  • It's a gorgeous piece - it looks like a moving Impressionist painting. Brilliant concept. I wonder why they didn't use it for the start of "Fantasia 2000" - beginning with the great Disney past and moving us into the present...

    Ah, well. At least we got to see it, and I love that they used one of my all-time favorite pieces of music as well.

  • I think this should be release simply as artwork...

  • They should include this in Fantasia 3

  • I watched the movie with a live orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl not too long ago. So beautiful. I started to cry actually. I loved it.

  • where can i get a copy of this movie?

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  • @92Jackalope At Amazon: The Fantasia Anthology (3-Disc Collector's Edition) (1942)

    Leopold Stokowski (Actor), James Levine (Actor), Ben Sharpsteen (Director), Bill Roberts (Director) | Rated: G | Format: DVD

  • Thumbs up if u think that Fantasia is better than Fantasia 2000

  • @CrzYpRsOn770 Even though i enjoyed the segments in the latter, i wouldve preferred no celebrity hosts and jokes. If they end p making a third one, they better stick with one host and make it a good one.

  • Fantasia is truly the greatest Disney movie. Sure, Lion King and Sleeping Beauty are still great, but nothing compared to this. The amazing thing about Fantasia is that it tells u a story and takes your breath away... without words! It can make you cry, laugh, get destructive, and many others, with just animation and the wonders of music. It shows good vs. evil, how the world started, the tales of a forest, and even a greek haven!!! This is truly the best Disney film. Thumbs up if u agree!

  • It's good in make mine music, but not in fantasia.

  • Good to listen to before you go sleep

  • Seriously? what happened to Disney? I remember a time when Disney was cutting edge, high above anyone else in the industry. They made masterpieces that still live on to this day as being the best slices of animation the world has ever seen. Disney was magic, my childhood is full of wonderful memories due to these pieces of artwork. They should really look back on what they achieved and try harder these days!

  • I can see why they chose this one for removal. The scenery is pretty, but the whole thing is really quite boring. Had it been included, it would have been the low point of the film.

  • Pure.

  • Can someone tell me why it wasn't include in Fantasia's final version?

    I know that some scenes of this segment were used for another classic's segments.

  • @Abranime18 It was cut due to length of the movie, which was already over two hours in length. It was later used for the movie, "Make Mine Music" but the music was changed to "Blue Bayou."

  • thumbs up if you agree, they should release the full, complete, unaltered cut of fantasia, including the deleted scenes and the black cenetarette. changing fantasia to be "politically correct" is just as stupid as making greedo shoot first or walkie-talkies instead of shotguns. people should not rewrite HISTORY. so what if it will be much longer? what's wrong with long movies! so what if there was a racist-steryotyped black cenetarette in some scenes? we dont care if a 1940 film was a tad racist

  • @CHAOSin8bits Same should be done with It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

  • @CHAOSin8bits Wow, you speak for everyone? Oh, I guess you speak for 13 people. And this isn't rewriting history. I agree with Roger Ebert on this matter.

  • @CHAOSin8bits I think the Avenue Q song is spot on. We'd have an easier time living with each other and less hateful behavior if we'd all just RELAX and quit being so d*mn sensitive about everything.

  • @CHAOSin8bits I really agree with you, this is a masterpiece, so beautiful to be stupidly deleted.

  • @CHAOSin8bits i'm not sure if i like your reasoning, but i do agree that it should be re-released uncut.

  • i don't understand why this was deleted. it's a beautiful scene and i don't see anything wrong with it.

  • @DJHashBrownies It's very beautiful and well animated but it doesn't quite fit the style of the other stories and was probably cut for time as well. The birds are drawn very realistically but this makes them not as expressive as the other characters in this series of Fantasia. Sure you see the first egret all by itself but you don't really get a good sense of it being alone and looking for love (And then in the end meeting up with another bird)

    Just my take on why it wasn't included.

  • The music and animation together make it wonderfully soothing to watch, especially before bed (something I like to do every so often!). Someone mentioned this a few pages back already, but it really does make you feel as if you can take in the fresh summer night air here. Which in turn, makes me feel oddly nostalgic.

    Love it!

  • A beautiful piece and animation but to be honest I do see why it was cut out. Looking at the ones that were chosen they make more of an impression and have a greater "presence", if you will, than the others.

  • this is one of the most fine pieces of music ever done. simply beautiful!

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  • I you watch the non-edited version of Fantasia on Blue Ray, it drags, I can see why some stuff was edited.

  • @theallseeingoracle Blu Ray!

  • FUCKING beautifullltytj musicccyujyuk

  • Btw, it's no wonder I feel so distant from the beauty I once experienced as a child, the media of today keeps filling us with all this other JUNK...

  • this is amazing...

  • That was beautiful. Why was it deleted?

  • This should be on piano and it would be so much better.

  • @classicalhero7 I do think Clair De Lune sounds much better just on piano, do a search, watch the one with the colors....best piece of music ever heard.

  • Esta melodia maravillosa, no se incluye en el album doble del sound track grabado para el sello Buenavista Records, propiedad de Walt Disney Enterprises, y es una làstima porque es una obra de arte sin par. Tampoco aparece en el film. Solo se halla en el DVD original, como material extra, ya que no fue incluida en la cinta original, que de por si es una joya invalorable y la mùsica del film toda es oro puro. Comentò desde Lima, capital del Perù. Luis Alberto Espinoza Bazàn.

  • who could possibly dislike this?  philistines, your taste is in your mouths.

  • I LOVE YOUTUBE!!!,MEMORIES RUSH BACK OF A SCARED KID SITTING IN THE THIRD ROW OF THE RIVOLI THEATRE SPELLBOUND..NEVER HEARD CLASSICAL MUSIC BEFORE..MY EYES ARE FULL, SO MOVING,,

  • Shame it wasn't added. I think this scene would have been a great contrast, taking a different direction from the rest of the film. It is on par with the rest of fantasia and I love it as much as any other scene in the movie. It is incredibly relaxing, the music and artwork. You feel for the bird and his loneliness, then comes a friend. The animation is superb, you can almost feel the summer night here.

  • Beautiful. The music is perfect, though much of the animation is a bit rough. I wish the ripple effects could have been finished. Whoever animated them was doing a great job. I can see why they chose this scene to cut, though. Compared to the others, it's quite slow and sleepy, and wouldn't hold much interest for kids, the target audience.

  • Fantasia has to be easily the most under appreciated Disney movie ever made. There's not a single movie to date that I can think of that has such an impact without words.

  • @pixie16stix - I agree is is wonderful... Have you seen Baracka? That is an amazing, powerful movie without words, or at least without dialogue or plot.

  • Another great Disney (or, Cy Young -headed) animation. Taken from nature / careful study of real egrets and herons, only slightly unreal in motions now and then.

    Natural grace with artistic license added, and much more than just a copy from a film clip too.

    Add Stokowski's lush scoring and conducting, and you have something more than words.

  • 2 people have no souls or taste in music

  • @punkrockr827 Let's not be over dramatic here dude.. I personally love Claire de Lune but just because they didn't like it doesn't mean they don't have souls.. I mean geeze let people have their own opinions will ya. It's the only thing that keeps us from being mindless robots.

  • @FruitsFantasyKingdom fair enough

  • The conductor Leopold Stokowski is performing his own orchestration of this famous Debussy piano piece.No wonder the great Rachmaninoff proclaimed the Philadelphia Orchestra as the greatest ever.Uncommonly beautiful performance!

  • I find it ironic how

    "Good Disney"

    Happened around the same time as

    "Racist Disney"

    and now that the racism is gone

    we get the Disney that is today

    Hannah Montana and all that

  • there should be a 10 hour fantasia

  • this is one of my favorite pieces but i like the traditional piano version better than the orchestra version. i am shocked that they took this out of fantasia. this is an absolutely beautiful scene!!

  • ... it really is beautiful.

  • WHY DID THEY TAKE THIS OUT?!?!?!?

  • Wow. Put that back in!

  • One of my favorite classic tracks. I wonder if this deleted segment will be included on the new Bluray release on Fantasia?

  • @pafalzon  Bad luck, it wasn't. See the reviews on amazon.com. They have added another short called "Destino" which is also on Youtube.

  • thank god for Japan.

  • THIS is culture and art, kids.

  • @bottledmagic Well said!

  • This scene is kind of boring. No wonder they didn't include it in Fantasia.

  • @CandidlySubtle Actually They Didn't Include It In Fantasia Because The Picture Was Running Too Long With It

  • @centipeeds4always Yeah. Too long and unnecessary.

  • @CandidlySubtle Well It's Quite Beautiful (In My Opinion) So I Could See Why They Wanted To Do It.

  • @centipeeds4always I am glad that Disney kept the scene in his vaults so that, one day, it could be released and appreciated by others.

  • @Tobimar I agree. But they said on the bonus disc that was featured with the original DVD release of "Fantasia/Fantasia 2000", Disney was considering releasing "Clair De Lune" as a short subject even after it was cut from "Fantasia". Also the footage was used a few years later in "Make Mine Music" with an original song called "Blue Bayou" (obviously not the Roy Orbison song) sung by The Ken Darby Singers.

  • @Tobimar And trashed by ignorants and trolls

  • @Tobimar All of the scenes are still in vault. They just keep them there for political correctness.

  • @CandidlySubtle

    No appreciation for art? Uncultured swine.

  • @brothazoot Too slow for my taste.

  • This was used in a later Disney movie, either Melody Time or Fun and Fancy Free?

  • i know alot of people are speculating of how most kid loves HSM and Hanna montana and not the classic? i have to admit tho if i was there age i probably would too when these kids reach maturity they will come to really understand beauty and artistic achievement and grow out of msh and hanna just like i grew out of listenign to britney spears, justin timberlake ect.

  • wheres the deleted scene with mickey using an axe 

  • This isn't a deleted scene from Fantasia. The audio recording of Clair De Lune has been added to this animation. The animation is called 'Blue Bayou'. It's from a compilation of music-animation scenes called Make Mine Music. It's a little like Fantasia.

    I like how they've added Clair De Lune.

    But the original is the original.

    is the original.

    :D

  • Ok, all you die hard disney fans, can you tell me one which ride in disneyland, they have an area based soley off of this?

  • @fireball111121 Pirates of The Caribbean?

  • @disneyfan81 Yes :D

  • ah, the days where everything was hand drawn and beautiful

  • That's so beautiful! I love the animation with those cranes.

  • This was part of fantasia. The movie was too long, so they wound up taking this out.

  • Is it true what they say in the movie "fight club" with brad pitt that the cigaret burns from the "video monteurs" apears on the band... watch upper right corner at 5:51...

    I know it sounds pretty weird to talk about "fight club" under this beautiful Disney production... me neither, I do not understand why they have not put this in fanasia...

  • Is it true what they say in the movie "fight club" with brad pitt that the cigaret burns from the "video monteurs" apears on the band... watch upper right corner at 5:51...

  • wow, don't understand why they didn't ad this!

    but jeez! i got some serious shiverers from watching that!

    nearly cried at the end!!

    amazing!

  • This is so evil ...LOL

  • They must release a new version of the movie including this masterpiece, what a beautiful landscape and artistic birds.

  • @vizdi14 they released Fantasia 2000, which is based on the original Fantasia production.

  • =0 !!!! why'd they ever take this out?

  • I love Clair de Lune. I play it with my marching band. It's the second song in our show. It's so pretty <3

  • back when animation had true art and emotion

  • Oh man, if that's the only thing you do in your whole existence - put this beautiful piece on youtube you deserve an eternity of paradise.

    Adam ismia

  • How in the world did Disney go from creating beautiful pieces of animation and music like this to the crap-tastic "art" they call Hannah Montana and junk? Oh how the mighty have fallen... and they fell HARD. :(

  • @Persona100Duh He died, after that, the people who took over cared about nothing but profit.

  • @donoraen I know, but just because he's gone doesn't mean that they should care less about what they create. Depressing. -sighs-

  • @donoraen No actually Walt's initial successors were afraid of making stuff that he might not have approved of. Then along came Michael Eisner, who only cared about the bottom line (boo!! hiss!) and Anne Sweeney who turned The Disney Channel into "The Dismal Channel" (also boo! hiss!).

  • @Persona100Duh I really dont think anyone who works on hannah montana considers it art nor do I think they try to pass it off as such. If anything youre just trying to sound cynical for the purpose of sounding intelligent which is only revealing the fact that youre quite the opposite.

  • @bloodypages And that's all well and good and you may call me 'cynical' for the mere sake of 'acting intelligent' but I'm merely providing my point of view on the fact shows being produced, by any major company, are, to me, shows that feel as though they're slapped together with nothing to stimulate my mind with. And, also, I HAVE heard people call that show "art", even if the creators don't believe it to be so. I think you're just trying to argue with me--my comment wasn't meant to be cynical.

  • @Persona100Duh they have merely been conformists amongst the changing times. They are no longer pushing the boundaries. Which is truly a shame... I guess Walter is too old nowadays.

  • @maniacguitar It does feel that way, doesn't it? Disney is very much becoming what you stated and I agree wholeheartedly that it's a real shame. -sigh-

  • @Persona100Duh Money talks... Fantasia was a financial failure... Hannah Montana made many many more millions then what it cost...

  • @BorisCr Money does talk and that's part of why it's so depressing; people, both the marketors and the consumers, no longer seem to care about thought-provoking or imaginative pieces, they just want the money. So disappointing. -sigh-

  • @Persona100Duh

    it's obvious. Disney is dead, the man I mean. He was an artist, but he also made money, though his artistic integrity remained. when he died, Disney became a corporation and created a monster. basically, they have the rights to his artwork and make a profit by whoring themselves with actual whores.

  • @koyoteblue1998 Definitely--it's downright awful. It should be labeled as a federal crime.

  • @Persona100Duh Walt died.

  • @BenTheoRowe Sadly, yes, that is the main reason. :'(

  • @Persona100Duh: it's a sign of the times. sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to survive. unfortunately, hannah montana and all that stuff is what sells today

  • @overcastfab True, and very unfortunate. D'X

  • @Persona100Duh They now do both.

  • @Persona100Duh What about Fantasia 2000? I agree completely that cartoons in general have just... gone south but occasionally there's still some good. To be honest I think we should got back to the humor/plot/animation styles of the 80s to early 90s cartoons.

  • i remember a movie: oceans eleven :D

  • thats was beautiful they should have put that in the movie

  • I wonder how the animators and the orchestra felt about this piece being cut out. They obviously worked very hard on it.

  • @AngelicMousey This wasn't intended for Fantasia. It's a segment from Make Mine Music. And someone's edited and replaced the music with Clair De Lune. The clip is called Blue Bayou.

    I suggest you watch Make Mine Music. It's similar to Fantasia.

  • @rudjoe I was wondering about that, because the bits at the start with Fantasia's orchestra are just shots from the opening bit of it with a different color and don't match the music.

  • @rudjoe Actually it was a deleted scene from Fantasia originally.

  • I'm glad this survived being deleted from the final film

  • why would they cut this piece!? I love this piece,but I must say I prefer it on piano, seems much more personal and intimate. Impressionism was/is wonderful.

  • why would they cut this piece!? I love this piece, impressionism was/is wonderful.

  • This always reduces me to tears, the music and the animation both. 

  • Utterly magnificent in every way - and this was cut from the film - that's how good Fantasia really is!! Watch this again and think about the fact that the Disney animators were so far ahead of their time and so brilliant they created this film using 1930's technology and invented some of their own no doubt! Disney was also responsible for introducing countless children like me to the beauty and wonder of classical music!

  • If they ever made a third Fantasia movie, this segment should be in there

  • i'm not sure its a deleted scene from fantasia but its still a masterpiece

  • It's funny...I grew up with Star Wars...and more recently I was impressed with the visuals in James Cameron's movie Avatar. Today, I was "blown away" by this ignored & almost forgotten classic. I never bothered to watch it in the past, but now I'll seek it out and watch the entire film/animation. Despite 7 decades of technological advancement, no one in recent years (IMHO) has yet produced anything even remotely close to Fantasia - in terms of its artistry, beauty, music, depth etc., etc.

  • simply wonderfull!!

  • they had to cut it out because the film was too long. when the film had its premiere nobody watched it and then they started to cut out many things and change the reader (bad english, sry!) and so on. then the film became famous and later they searched for all the old things they deleted or cut out and now this scene is a "bonus" on DVD.

  • The most beautiful scene and it was deleted...thank godness it's possible for us to watch this masterpiece

  • so beautifull!! wish this was on the film!

  • I bet they deleted this scene because they didn't want children quietly drifting off to sleep during the movie...

  • Awww, it's such a beautiful piece, but why did they cut it from Fantasia and then re-cut it for Make Mine Music?

  • wonderfull

  • why didn't disney put this segment in fantasia 2000? the film was only 80 minutes!

  • Fantasia was really beatiful... But don't worry, we now have movies about talking toys. But in 3D -.-'

  • Most of the classical music I've heard came from Fantasia. Wish they left this song in the movie. The only place I've heard it was in the first Twilight movie. So now that I hear this song, I think of the lead Twilight actors dancing. *shrugs*

  • Very nice. How many eyes have pondered the moon?

  • just far, far, far too beautiful...... if I was the poorest person in the world, I would become the richest upon watching / hearing this amazing duo of animation and musical score. I like to think that music is our connection to every living creature .... we all can hear/feel what it does to us is.

  • I know it's good and all, but for kids? I think not. I'd think twice before letting my kids watch racism in this film, along with brainwashing subniminal messages like the rest of his films.... shame, such amazing music. But ye, the shit thats on nowadays is just as bad really...so were screwed either way! :D WOOP!

  • i feel sorry for all of the animators that spent months working on this piece only to have it cut out...

  • fantasia was really all the good stuff for children to be influenced by and enjoy in one film =) nothing beats the pink hippos dancing to the nutcracker ^.^

  • @ramzeysid The hippos danced to "Dance of the Hours". Mushrooms, flowers, and fairies danced to The Nutcracker Suite.

  • ohhhhhhh i love it!

    i love all the parts of the old fantasia version!^^

  • First time I've seen this. Breathtaking. Thanks for posting it.

  • Simplemente soberbio....

  • i agree with you falumpi