Fantasia 1940 facts
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The first commercial film with with stereo sound was Fantasia in 1940, developed by sound engineers at Walt Disney Studios and called "Fantasound"
During World War II, Walt Disney entered into a contract with the US government to develop 32 animated shorts. Nearly bankrupted by "Fantasia"(1940), Disney needed to refill its coffers by making American propaganda films
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The Nutcracker was relatively obscure outside of Russia until 1940 and it's inclusion in Disney's Fantasia
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The first movie ever published with surround sound was Disneys Fantasia from 1940.
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There was less time (73 years) between the completion of Night on Bald Mountain (1867) and the release of Fantasia (1940), the film that brought it from obscurity to popularity, than there has been time between the release of Fantasia and now (78 years).
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in 1940 Disney's movie "Fantasia" invented the concept of stereo sound, eventually changing the music industry forever. To promote the film, Disney created a surround sound system called "Fantasound" that used multiple speakers spread across a room to immerse audiences in the film's music
