@@BOORAGG Well, in some aspects it is incorrect. The movie makes the obvious mistake of lumping together different dinosaur species that never coexisted, like T.Rex and Stegosaurus. There's even a Dimetrodon. Scientists always knew those didn't coexist. The film makers probably didn't care much about this detail. It by no means ruins the movie. But is does perpetuate some misconceptions.
@@Pssybart these dinosaurs are some of the most accurate that have ever been shown.keep in mind that you have to go of the Fossils that were knowm back in the day.for its time,its really accurate! best Wishes have a good day!
Considering this was released in 1940, EIGHTY years ago, it is amazing. Sure nowadays modern paleontologists would find mistakes but it is still amazing. The T-Rex fight still gives me chills.
It does have several different periods all together. But the way paleontology continues to try to promote, rather than prove, the 'bird' theory, it is not much different in approach.
@@TeaSong1 What they forget is that this was made in 1940 and a lot of paleontological discoveries have been made since then. But it's still a wonderful film.
In case anyone was wondering why the extinction of the dinosaurs is portrayed this way, the Chicxulub crater wasn't even discovered until 1978. The true cause of their extinction was largely a mystery in 1940, so the rather ambiguous portrayal here was about as good as they were going to get.
What's depicted in this sequence is probably closer to what happened during the Permian-Triassic extinction event which took pkace before the dinosaurs evolved. We have reason to believe that the continents as we know them today did not exist then and that there was only one massive supercontinent. Such a huge land mass without large rivers and lakes to provide moisture through evaporation to later fall as rain would probably be mostly desert (similar to Australia but on a much larger scale) and that would cause many species to die off due to lack of sufficient water supply.
I remember watching this as a kid, as their steps become slow, and agonize. Aimlessly searching from fresh water and food, and collapsing. Millions of years pass, and all that remains are footprints and dried bones. Only silence rests over the eternity. They've all long since perished. Millions more years pass, and the tectonic plates begin to thrust, swallowing up the remnants of the deceased dinosaurs, as though they never existed. That part always angered me and broke my heart. For the earth to go on as though these poor creatures never mattered. Images from another life, another time. It's still the most beautiful piece of animation I've ever seen.
@hihunter7 my favorite scene in this piece is the first 7 minutes. The earth forming 4.6 BILLION years ago. No life on earth. Not even microbes. No tiny cells. Absolutely nothing. No water. No oceans. No possibility of any life at all. Just molten lava, hydrocarbon radiation, and fire. There was no death because there was no life. Earth was just as barren and lifeless as the other planets. Our moon was 17 times closer to earth then, glowing red, and filling up the entire sky, nearly. Any closer, and the gravitational pull would have reeled the moon right toward earth. I have a fossil coming from Australia that dates back over 4 billion years, when no living thing existed on earth. I can't wait.
I love how Glorification of the Chosen One is used for the fight against the T-Rex. The Stegosaurus is the Chosen One, and just like the ballet, is the sacrifice.
Nice interpretation, but I still think Stegosaurus should have won the battle by the way the spikes hit that carnivore hard. They have found Allosaurus bones with puncher holes in them that fit the spikes of the Stegosaurus indicating it used its spike tail to defend itself against predators. the way the tail struck the carnivore should have given him a few fatal wounds that would have given him the clue that this pray is dangerous and run away. But I still like your interpretation.
I adore the part where the allosaurus/tyrannosaurus is marching along in the midst of the other dinosaurs towards extinction, previously a fearful apex predator, but now just as weak and helpless as the ones who once where its prey against the forces of nature. Gives me chills
It's Not an Allosaurus It's supposed to be a Tyrannosaur but this was made in the 40's so this is how they thought Trex looked back then, having 3 claws and fighting against a Stegosaurus
If it's a depiction of the KT (Cretaceous-Tertiary) extinction event, it must be a T-Rex ot other tyrannosaur because allosaurs were a Jurassic period clade of Theropod.
18:10 there’s something so eerie and unsettling about this scene, going from watching these dinosaurs going from living charmed lives in a lush rainforest to them sluggishly walking through a barren and empty desert with some collapsing from exhaustion while others keep struggling forward. The brass section playing a loud and janky tune while both carnivores and herbivores trudge together in silence without attacking one another is just so unnerving and chilling.
What’s even more unsettling is the part after the dinosaurs die, just as the sun and moon start to form an eclipse, a barbaric earthquake occurs with threatening music.
Fun fact: the original plan was to go all the way up to the age of humans, where humans are dancing around after discovering fire. The scene was cut due to Walt Disney not wanting to get ire from creationists. The cut however was disliked by composer Igor Stokowski, and even turned him away from animation for a long while.
TreeckoJedi9 they should of added those scenes in because it would’ve made sense because the age of mammals began after the extinction of the dinosaurs it would’ve made sense they didn’t need to have any humans in it at all just show mammalian animals and in their age That’d would’ve been good to get Dinosaur fans at that time into the Cenozoic era or commonly known as the age of mammals Here it just ends with life on earth (presumably) becoming extinct after this worldwide drought which ruins the story because we all know that didn’t happen if it did then nothing around today including humans wouldn’t be existing earth would just be a dead wasteland
TreeckoJedi9 How awesome would it have been if they actually gone through with the original plan? In fact, Rite Of Spring IS about primitive human rituals.
Honestly I’m surprised for 1940 that they were able to get away with showing as much as they did. For a long time it was illegal to even teach evolution in schools. I grew up with this film. I loved this sequence the most out of all of them. But it was always so sad.
Probably THE best animated depiction of the era of the dinosaurs. It doesn't portray the dinosaurs as cutesy cartoon characters or as movie monsters, but, instead, as they actually were: animals.
Well it’s more like an artistic representation that tried to depict their behavior as true animals. This was considerably inaccurate even for the time.
I remember this sequence frightened the living crude out of me as a child, so bad I had nightmares, but for some obscure reason, I would rewatch it over and over again.
I became very frightened of it (in particular the music and the volcanic scenes) as I got older, but as a very young child this entire segment had me glued to the screen too. Even when I loved it I always found it deeply unsettling.
My dad had a Fantasia video but never played it. When I got older I watched it again and I found out why. I must’ve cried when the Stegosaurus got killed. I was obsessed with dinosaurs as a young child and Stegosaurus was my favorite.
I always found it interesting as a child to see the T-Rex collapse from exhaustion and dehydration, dying in the sand, after the contrast of seeing it as a fearless predator killing the Stegosaurus. It just sorta drove home the point to me that everyone is equal in death.
Even though the old theories of the Dinosaurs and prehistoric times are now outdated in Fantasia it’s still fun to watch and learn on how far we’ve come on our understanding of pre history. I grew up watching the original Fantasia and this sequence in the movie is something that I love and will never forget.
I'm pretty sure that the tribal dances take place many years after the time of the dinosaurs 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨. That should be part of my version of the Rite of Spring ballet. Convincing and mind-blowing or what 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯?
@@jellyfishjay2217 Do you mean natives, or East-Asia Indians? Either way, you should look up traditional Russian clothing! As humans we definitely shared some wave-lengths but there are some pretty unique and cool differences between Indigenous Russia and Indigenous America c:
I love how hellish this feels. All of the organisms featured in the animation are presented as demonish and always shown feeding and competing with each other. While I understand that this is how life operates in reality the atmosphere is so tangible.
Wildlife really is that way. It's hell. Bambi is a gross misrepresentation of wildlife. The owl woulda chowed down on those rabbits before the first scene ended in real life. No foxes, coyotes, wolves, bears were shown. Even squirrels eat chipmunks in real life, and they were friends in the movie.
For some reason I find this segment more scary than Night on Bald mountain. I don’t why, but there’s something about this segment I find really unsettling.
It scares you because this is what happens all the time in nature And the Dinosaurs, while scientifically inaccurate in this film, are real, very real. Most of them are gone including the ones depicted but it happened, and thank God that they didn't continue to exist for longer, for all we know they could have evolved into a civilization like ours and snuffed out our primitive ancestors
@@icedragon23472, at the time (1940) the dinosaurs were absolutely accurate by a scientific point of view. Disney worked with the cooperation of the director of the American Museum of Natural History and many other scientist.
Night on Bald Mountain is about a demonic spirit tormenting damned souls, but ultimately being driven off by the light of day. Rite of Spring depicts the gruesome deaths and the extinction of entire species due to the nihilistic whims of cosmic probability, and most traces of them being wiped from existence by further geological phenomena.
yeah and the soundtrack makes the whole segment really uncomfortable. It's purposely unsettling. Stravinsky's ''Rite of Spring'' ballet was very controversial back in the 1910's. Look it up it's pretty interesting!
It’s a mastery that back in the early 40s with no computer whatsoever they were able to make this whole piece (and the entire movie) What especially amazes me is how the lava looks almost alive in a sense but there is no discernible human like features. Well done Disney, well done.
0:01 - 3:16 Introduction to the Adoration of the Earth 3:17 - 6:17 Augurs of Spring - The celebration of spring begins in the hills while an old woman enters to foretell the future. 6:18 - 7:39 The Ritual of Abduction - Young girls arrive from the river to begin the Dance of the Abduction. 7:40 - 12:00 Introduction to The Sacrifice 12:01 - 14:46 Mystic Circles of the Young Girls - The young girls engage in mysterious games while walking in circles. 14:47 - 16:02 Glorification of the Chosen One - One of the girls is chosen. 16:03 - 16:54 Evocation of the Ancestors 16:55 - 19:44 Ritual Action of the Ancestors - The Chosen One is entrusted to the old wise men 19:45 - 21:30 Dance of the Earth 21:33 - 22:13 Introduction to the Adoration of the Earth (Reprise/Finale)
The fact that key scenes such as the Sacrificial Dance are elided is kind of worrying; just imagine what sequence could have been done with it. Maybe the birth of humanity if Creationists hadn't intervened?
Outdated as this section is, the story of life's origins this protrays is beautifully grim THIS is why despite how boring some segments are to kids today, Fantasia still stands it's ground over 80 years later It's a prioneer of visual-musical story telling, letting Walt's musicians and artists having fun interputating these classical songs and I'm all for it, especially with sections like this and Night on Bald Mountain.
I wonder if any of the dinosaurs looked up and saw a daytime star that just kept getting bigger and bigger and wondering what it was until one day a rock the size of New York City crashes down from the sky turning a warm tropical planet into a literal hell scape and wiping out almost all land life
My favorite segment of Fantasia, and one of the most powerful pieces of animation I've seen in my life. Everything from the music and the early stages of the Earth to the thrilling dinosaurs, this is art.
Everyone talks about how scary the volcanoes and the T-Rex attack are, but what unsettles me to this day is the extinction scenes. Took the existential, apocalyptic horror up to an 11.
My grandma who died this year at age 83 was born the day this movie came out. The scene you see here was seen by soldiers right before shipping off to the battlefields of Europe during ww2. People that watched this film in theatres had no television at home yet as that only became common after the war. Let that sink in for a moment.
Although we now know this is scientifically inaccurate, it is still nice to take a look at this movie as it serves to be a window that shows us how the field of paleontology evolved throughout the years. And it is nice to see what we thought was accurate back in the 1940s. Plus the animation works greatly with the music and dare I say it, even more than it being played over a ballet.
If they were to make another Fantasia film, they should do this sequence again, but with scientifically accurate Dinosaurs, to show how much has changed in our understanding of the Mesozoic era
Yeah, I can see what you mean by saying this music works better in this segment than in a ballet. But honestly, if you watch the Rite of Spring ballet, and you watch it enough times (like I've watched it a million times, because I have a problem LOL), it actually does work pretty well. :) Though I totally get why Disney and Stokowski chose to fit this music to this segment and story, since the music is described as very earthy and violent, the music and the story of this segment practically go hand in hand. :D And this segment and its music inspired my love of dinosaurs. XD
This wasn't even close to accurate for the 40's. But the public didn't know that and Disney took a lot of artistic liberties. And I'm glad he did. From an artistic standpoint this is perfection.
No scene from any other movie I've seen shows how fragile and powerless we are in the universe, but at the same time how great an opportunity it is for us to exist like this scene.
It’s strange knowing how Disney took the Rite of Spring which was really about an ancient Slavic spring festival that ended in human sacrifice and made it about Dinosaurs
i know a lot of it is based only off of what they knew at the time and that we know so much more now, but i also really vibe the retro dino aesthetic, Where they're all swamp dwellers who drage their tails and the world around them is as alien and savage as they are. The very definition of Primeval.
The world around us now is savage. We have just found ways to defend and isolate ourselves from it. All of the other wild creatures live in that hell every second of their lives, which aren't very long.
the end of this always freaked me out as a kid with all the grating sounds and rocks just rocketing out of the earth. NEVER sat well with me, still kinda doesn't. still, I got like, 9 uninterrupted minutes of dinosaurs so I was happy.
YO I agree lol! If you haven’t heard how the score is intended to sound, it’s NOTHING like the Fantasia score. The screeching horns during the earthquake segment (Dance of the Earth) are non-existent in Stravinsky’s composition and they are quite literally the bane of my existence. I’m here doing exposure therapy because this specific recording of the rite of spring is a legit irrational phobia of mine. The imagery of the unstoppable planet of lava, dinosaurs collapsing in their dust bowl of thirst and starvation, and finally the earth ripping itself apart, does nooooot help lmao
@@meowkie I never knew that about the horns so that's a cool thing to find out! It makes sense some drastic license went to what became of this piece and the story they wanted to tell. I'd say good luck on this exposure, but... all the dinosaurs starving, dying, and turning to bonds still makes me extremely uncomfortable watching! As beautiful as the art and animation is, I took this better as a kid lol
So nostalgic. When I was in the second grade I always used to come home from school and fall asleep to this on the VCR. My favorite parts are 3:18, 14:47, 15:46, 17:47, 18:48, and 20:17. I have to admit, when I was younger I would always throw a tantrum because the stegosaurus died. Poor stegosaurus. Lol. Thanks to anyone who took the time to read this.
Thanks for sharing! I'm still scared of this sequence but there's something so comforting knowing you liked it enough to fall asleep to it. I loved it when I was very young and also felt like the Stegosaurus deserved to survive that fight.
Lol when I was like 4 I would watch fantasia every night and my mom says I would always fall asleep at the beginning of the dinosaurs. I like to think that I fell asleep to the bassoon solo every night because I’m now a bassoonist lol.
This is a masterpiece. You don't see this kind of depth from Disney or any movie these days ... First that fight with the Trex I remember at the shock that and sadness when the stego didnt win. And that scene where the dinosaurs start dropping down in the heat ... god that gets to me every time. I imagine that hell must be like that.
That part gave me nightmares for 2-3 years as a child. I thought that would happen to me. I thought the world was gonna end by splitting open and me and everyone else was gonna fall through the cracks. I think it’s cool now.
Though some dinosaur representations are now outdated due to more recent findings, The Rites of Spring sequence is still gorgeous to look at it and gives an understandable take on the evolution cycle. I was blown away the first time I saw Fantasia and it deserves its permanent slot in my video collection. In some respects it still has not been surpassed.
Something I absolutely personally love about this segment is the symbolism of water throughout the entire thing. Before the water, there was lava and fire. Chaos. Then water came and helped cool the Earth, which gives way to life. The entire time we see life on screen, it is shown with some kind of water. They're eating and drinking from water, and existing in places with it. It's shown they cannot live without it. That life cannot thrive without it. Then, when the extinction comes, there's no water. Only heat and chaos once again. Once they all die, chaos unfolds from the Earth and then water comes back as a reset. Showing that everything is a cycle, and life will once again evolve and thrive if given the chance. I think it's a really cool bit of artistry, and this is one of my favorite animations of all time. Not to mention how charming and fascinatingly alien the outdated depictions of life are. It's so mesmerizing. You really feel like you're in an alien world for a while.
According to the DVD commentary for Fantasia: the Rite of Spring segment inspired a fascination with dinosaurs in a young Michael Crichton and that would serve as the crux of his most famous novel, Jurassic Park. The Rite of Spring is also my personal favorite segment in Fantasia.
@@matplayer1232 Not very often that a movie gets compared to a book and gets blessed by a review with the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words" but Jurassic Park is one of them. The characters in the movie are better, the characters in the book are bland and really skimmed over. John Hammond in the book really stands out for being emotionless while the one in the movie has a real "What have I done!?" Dr. Frankenstein feel to him.
@@psychedashell not really It is not just about the characters and dinosaurs The book has some more deep mesages within it But it is understandable why you prefer the movie over it,since the book can get very disturbing,while the movie seems more balanced,being watchable by most ages
Anyone else find the inaccuracy in how the Dinosaurs are drawn gives it extra charm and helps this animation stand out from other Dinosaur media? There's something interesting and alluring about early Paleoart. It has a nice aesthetic to it.
I see people saying the fight scene terrified them the most as kids, but honestly? I always thought that was cool. You know what part really terrified me? The extinction. That absolutely horrified me. Especially how the earthquakes and tsunamis destroy the bones after, leaving no trace of their existence.
Despite this film coming out in the 1940’s the animation holds up really well today despite the inaccuracies think about it this is land before time levels of animation it’s really a shame that animation has gotten pretty terrible nowadays I mean those dinosaurs look like they’re real despite it being 2D animation and it’s in the 1940’s it’s still pretty damn good
I absolutely adore these older reconstructions of dinosaurs. I know people know a days really hate looking at them and can't stand the inaccuracies, but I love them. They seem like creatures right out of a fairy tale, and they honestly look much cooler than the more accurate reconstructions of today. I'd like to see something nowadays be done where these older designs make a comeback, to pay tribute to the adventure films of the '20s and '30s. Hell, maybe a remake of the 1925 lost world movie would be a great idea. I am personally not a huge fan of this movie, but this segment (And arguably the ending one on bald mountain/Ave Maria) has my attention. I love how there's no dialogue, no sound effects even, we're just watching animals in their habitats. I'm not saying I want a full movie like this or anything, but I just find it fascinating here. My favorite part has to be the Elasmosaurus's swimming in the shoreline. I know it's inaccurate now and they have the outdated neck posture, and couldn't go on land, however it gives off a perfect atmosphere.
I would love to see retro design of dinosaur make it into a Morden day moive but then you will hear people bitiching about it not accury reeeeee but I hope it happens one day
If you, like me, have a fondness for old dinosaur depictions despite their inaccuracies, I think you might like this video where it's discussed on a psychological level why we are still drawn to them despite them all being wholly out of date by now. ruclips.net/video/IKXokoLHXQI/видео.html
I will be honest to say that this is my absolute favorite segment within Fantasia. When I was younger, I was stuck to the screen with it's fantastic (albeit inaccurate) representation of prehistoric life. As I got older, it still has not lost its touch with me. I've actually listened closer to the music and the music helps with the representation. It's quite mad, really. I then decided to watch a full rendition of the original score of Rite of Spring and I was surprised at how groundbreaking it was. Compared to other scores which feel very linear and progressed to a point, this score had such dissonance with tone and rhythms would abruptly change, which is very unique. Going back to this segment, a lot of people rank this as their least favorite or they don't know what to feel about it. Which is a shame because this is a roller coaster of a segment. My theory is that because some of the segments, not all but some, have a very linear feel to their stories, this one doesn't and as a result they a bit taken aback by the changes and have the feeling of, "There's dinosaurs and then they're gone, WTF?" The composer's intent, as stated by Deems Taylor (the host of Fantasia), was to express life in it's primitive state. It's full of craziness and full of abrupt beginnings and ends. So I think they succeeded in that regard, even if they weren't totally faithful to the score. Also, you feel like an observer of life, as you're floating through the vacuum of space, the eruption of volcanoes, all the way to the emergence and extinction of the dinosaurs. You aren't meant to connect to it emotionally but simply see what life might've been like if you could go back in time.
Exceptional music and animation. You can feel genuine tension and fear in the tyrannosaur fight, as well as a bizarre but nice, warming feeling of an older earth. That alien-but-familiar feeling is only amplified by the nostalgia I've held for this film. It's like meeting something/someone you've met before, but can't exactly pin it down.
Thought of something kind of dark. Imagine what the last dinosaur was thinking at the last moments. Sees a t-rex coming up behind him and the last dinos, thinking he's gonna get eaten. However he sees the t-rex drop dead of thirst. Then one by one he sees the last of his kind drop dead. I always thought he or she would be mentally broken at that moment think, "Oh god I'm the Last one left. What the hell do I do?" Kind of Dark to think of.
I used to watch this as a little kid in the early 90's its crazy today is the first time i've watched it again. I remember this and Night on Bald mountain being favorite.
Tha IS really weird. Even I knew Stravinsky was alive during its production yet I had believed by then he was an already an old man long famous from his prime years and Disney was homaging someone in their golden years. But that makes sense. This film came out during the forties and that piece was out in the early 1900s. So this would be kinda like the equivalent of us making the film Heavy Metal back during the 80s again today as a reboot, using popular rock and pop radio tracks from only the past 10-30 so years. Or more accurately, if we had made a film in the vein of Heavy Metal or Fantasia, and we used for the soundtrack a bunch of vintage old songs from the 1930s or even the 1890s, and THEN chose to stick a single 1970s disco song in there.
@@avosmash2121I’d kinda be interested in a 60s-80s fantasia. I don’t think music with lyrics would work, but there’s so much great instrumental and electronic music from that era. Like a segment set to Ateraxia the Unexplained?? Could you imagine how cool that would be?
Loved The Rite of Spring a lot because I'm a dinosaur lover. I read in Disney Wiki that The Rite of Spring was first scripted to show the whole history of Earth which after the dinosaur extinction would show the Ice Age with woolly mammoths, saber-tooth cats and cavemen, but it was cut because the Disney company soon discoverd showing the rise of man wasn't all that popular back in the 40's.
Always fascinated by the way Disney animators made liquids look and behave. From water, to lava the waves, bubbles, streams, flows, drips are really incredible.
I have no memory of Night on Bald Mountain, but I *VIVIDLY* remember this as a kid, not in a traumatic way, but in a pure fascination way. I'm pretty sure this is what sparked my interest in dinasoars and prehistoric animals as a whole.
This is an absolute work of art. I would have liked to see a little shrew-like mammal emerge from a dinosaur skull as a symbol of ushering in a new era. One thing I love is the design of the feathered dinosaur at 12.20, scientists weren't even thinking like this 30 years ago, never mind 82!
same, I always thought the fight was cool af even though I wanted the stego to win, but once the drought hits I would just feel sad and desperate for them. When the T-Rex roars and falls, I used to be so sad. :
Although a bit anachronistic, I find it amazing that we now are closer in time to the T-Rex than the T-Rex was to the Stegosaurus. That shows how many millions of years dinosaurs actually lived. 😳
To this day, I remember how, as a kid, this part of the movie always grabbed - and held tightly onto - my attention whenever it came on: the T. rex showing up to those screeching orchestral stings, how sad the stegosaurus(?) fighting for its life made me, and how disturbing watching the dinosaurs march toward extinction under a red sun was - not to mention the segment at the end with the brass section blaring over a giant earthquake tearing apart the land.
Damn, before Jurassic Park I dare say that this is the best demonstration of dinosaurs I've ever seen at that time, they were acting like animals, not like clumsy monsters that broke everything in front of them. Disney was great.
The scenes where the T Rex and the Stego are just staring at each other while the hyper tense, quiet music plays in the background are fucking terrifying.
As a kid I was most locked into the dinosaurs. As an adult I am more intrigued with the volcanoes erupting in unison before exploding in a super eruption, volcanic gasses spewing from a cinder cone and igniting, mountains and rock faces violently rising from crushing tectonic plates, and then it all going quiet and fading into the darkness of a solar eclypse. Bravo!
3:17 For these volcanoes, they were actually made from drops of black paint that were turned upside-down in a vat of water, which is how they developed smoke patterns. The music in the background in this scene sounds pretty tribal, which is like the sound of Native American drums beating. And the volcanoes are kinda like teepees with smoke coming out and that's what the song What Made The Red Man Red from Peter Pan reminds me of, because this whole volcanic scene, here in the Rite Of Spring sequence in Fantasia, makes me think of tribal music and tribal dances.
For me, I get the sense of power of the Earth itself when this music plays over its evolution especially the beginning when the planet was once a hellish looking place. It also especially helps when the eruption sincs in with the music like (3:20), (3:22) (3:26) and onward.
@@SharksandDinos But when you listen to this sequence on an old audio cassette tape or CD, these scores, here @ 3:17, 14:47, & 20:23, are full of jump scares
Every segment in Fantasia told you a different aspect of a life experience. This segment was really about the forces of nature and shows that not even the strongest can match earths power.
They were going to show the age of mammals and the dawn of man, but some creationists threw a fit about it. Fortunately, some artwork has surfaced online back in 2006, giving us a vision of what could have been.
I kinda wonder about that supposedly being the reason. When you think about it, it'd be very odd that creationists would have pitched a fit about depicting mankind's origins, when you consider that the Rite of Spring ended up depicting several scientific theories that led to mankind's origin. It shows everything from the cosmic beginnings of stars & planets across the universe, to the Earth's surface formation and the start of life in the ocean, and then to how life evolved from cellular organisms to full on animals that would eventually lead to us. If creationists & religious fanatics were that bad in 1940, I doubt Fantasia could've ever gotten away with depicting what it did in the final product. I personally believe it's more likely that Walt Disney simply chose to go in a different direction for artistic purposes than the fear of creationists throwing a fit.
13:31 & 13:59 I always thought the way they ate was satisfying. The T. rex scene used to not want to have my feet on the floor but I would do that t rex vs other dinosaur scene with my sister
As much as I critique the inaccuracies in this scene (which I can forgive since this was made in the forties), I still think this is an excellent piece of animation featuring dinosaurs. I was getting Walking With Dinosaurs and Walking With Beasts flashbacks the last time I watched this. I like to think that this scene may have been an inspiration for kids to study dinosaurs and other aspects of prehistory.
19:30 65 million years ago the age of the dinosaurs finally fades away, and from its wreckage, a new world of species had already been emerge from today, birds, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, fish, and insects. However, we'll not forget that these dinosaurs are our legendary species.
Dinosauria is not a species and is not extinct. The dinosaurs simply lost domain over the planet and the mammals occupy the niches once occupied by dinosaurs. The surviving dinosaurs are the maniraptors.
This probably was the first time dinosaurs were portrayed in their own time and environment. The idea that this probably inspired authors and directors like Steven Spielberg to make their dinosaur stories
There is some concept art online of the cut “Age of Mammals/Cenozoic era” segment, it’s by Kay Nielsen and it depicts two sabre-toothed cats (likely smilodon) stalking a trio of mammoths on a cold night. Would have loved to see the Cenozoic depicted in the segment, shame it got cut…
Everyone goes on about the Stego and the T-Rex but the scariest parts for me was ALWAYS the volcano segment, especially when the ocean crawls up on land, and the earthquake. Scary af
That was always my favorite part. Just when things seem as infernal as they can get, the ground itself explodes in an uproar from the very bowels of hell!
Michael Coulter just to clarify, your talking about the animal that fought the Stegosaurus right? If that’s the case, then you have literally no idea what an Allosaurus even looks like. They have 2 display crests on their snout, kind of like those in a Dilphosaurus, plus the animal in this film has the robust skull structure of a Tyrannosaurid, not the more slimmer skull of an Allosaurus
Michael Coulter I ALREADY TOLD YOU THE DIFFERENCE ALREADY YOU IDOT. THE 3 FINGERED THING IS JUST A SCIENTIFIC INNACURACY ON THIS T.REX, I REPEAT, A T,REX, NOT, AN ALLOSAURUS
They aren't anthropomorphic but you can clearly see how expressive the Dinosaurs are and i always felt bad for them in the desert scene... Also, i always wanted to pet the baby Triceratops. at 13:47. They're just so cute
Absolutely Love le sacre du pritemps. Discovered when i was a child and LOVED dinosaurs; evolved into as an adult, the entire piece is a meditation on the beautiful sometimes violent/chaotic circle of life. It encompasses the struggle to live at any level. ❤️ Stravinsk
This was always my favorite scene in this film, especially the sequence that shows the evolution from one celled organisms in the ocean to the time the fish came up on land as amphibians. Just beautiful. The science isn't entirely accurate by what we know today (especially involving the time of the dinosaurs and their extinction, but much of it still holds. As a child, the music frightened me. Now it just haunts me.
14:48 Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex) he has a big head, a mouth full of banana sized sharp teeth, a big body, a long tail and two tiny arms with two fingers on them. This one has three fingers and was king of dinosaurs.
Am I the only one that finds outdated portrayals of prehistoric animals kinda charming ?
Benjamin Velleman nope. Me too.
@@Pssybart Thank you.
Outdated, but not necessarily incorrect.
@@BOORAGG Well, in some aspects it is incorrect. The movie makes the obvious mistake of lumping together different dinosaur species that never coexisted, like T.Rex and Stegosaurus. There's even a Dimetrodon. Scientists always knew those didn't coexist. The film makers probably didn't care much about this detail.
It by no means ruins the movie. But is does perpetuate some misconceptions.
@@Pssybart these dinosaurs are some of the most accurate that have ever been shown.keep in mind that you have to go of the Fossils that were knowm back in the day.for its time,its really accurate!
best Wishes have a good day!
I have loved this since I was 7.I am now 75. This is positively one of my all time favorites.
you're not 75 mate
@@ward7725 Said who?
@@ward7725 whoa! Calm down. What have I done to provoke you?
@@ward7725 Do you personally know @Barbara Pease?
@@ward7725 I don’t see why he can’t be- this was released 81 years ago and he was 7 when he watched it.
Considering this was released in 1940, EIGHTY years ago, it is amazing. Sure nowadays modern paleontologists would find mistakes but it is still amazing. The T-Rex fight still gives me chills.
Me too!
@@carolloucks5367 Me three
It does have several different periods all together. But the way paleontology continues to try to promote, rather than prove, the 'bird' theory, it is not much different in approach.
@Julie Walker that’s why they can’t there are so many inaccuracies that they can’t help (including myself) but point out
@@TeaSong1 What they forget is that this was made in 1940 and a lot of paleontological discoveries have been made since then. But it's still a wonderful film.
In case anyone was wondering why the extinction of the dinosaurs is portrayed this way, the Chicxulub crater wasn't even discovered until 1978. The true cause of their extinction was largely a mystery in 1940, so the rather ambiguous portrayal here was about as good as they were going to get.
I actually knew that. And I like the idea of the Jurassic Period’s Stegosaurus facing the Cretaceous Period’s T-Rex.
What’s the actual reason?
We know the actual reason now ?
What's depicted in this sequence is probably closer to what happened during the Permian-Triassic extinction event which took pkace before the dinosaurs evolved. We have reason to believe that the continents as we know them today did not exist then and that there was only one massive supercontinent. Such a huge land mass without large rivers and lakes to provide moisture through evaporation to later fall as rain would probably be mostly desert (similar to Australia but on a much larger scale) and that would cause many species to die off due to lack of sufficient water supply.
@@eatfugu it’s pretty well known
Giant asteroid collided with earth
That "March of death" segment of the dinosaurs still chills me to the bone
I remember watching this as a kid, as their steps become slow, and agonize. Aimlessly searching from fresh water and food, and collapsing. Millions of years pass, and all that remains are footprints and dried bones. Only silence rests over the eternity. They've all long since perished. Millions more years pass, and the tectonic plates begin to thrust, swallowing up the remnants of the deceased dinosaurs, as though they never existed. That part always angered me and broke my heart. For the earth to go on as though these poor creatures never mattered. Images from another life, another time. It's still the most beautiful piece of animation I've ever seen.
Amazing, isn't it?
@hihunter7 my favorite scene in this piece is the first 7 minutes. The earth forming 4.6 BILLION years ago. No life on earth. Not even microbes. No tiny cells. Absolutely nothing. No water. No oceans. No possibility of any life at all. Just molten lava, hydrocarbon radiation, and fire. There was no death because there was no life. Earth was just as barren and lifeless as the other planets. Our moon was 17 times closer to earth then, glowing red, and filling up the entire sky, nearly. Any closer, and the gravitational pull would have reeled the moon right toward earth. I have a fossil coming from Australia that dates back over 4 billion years, when no living thing existed on earth. I can't wait.
Glorification of the chosen one.
Ritual action of the ancestors.
i still cry about the extincion part
I love how Glorification of the Chosen One is used for the fight against the T-Rex. The Stegosaurus is the Chosen One, and just like the ballet, is the sacrifice.
Nice interpretation, but I still think Stegosaurus should have won the battle by the way the spikes hit that carnivore hard. They have found Allosaurus bones with puncher holes in them that fit the spikes of the Stegosaurus indicating it used its spike tail to defend itself against predators. the way the tail struck the carnivore should have given him a few fatal wounds that would have given him the clue that this pray is dangerous and run away. But I still like your interpretation.
I adore the part where the allosaurus/tyrannosaurus is marching along in the midst of the other dinosaurs towards extinction, previously a fearful apex predator, but now just as weak and helpless as the ones who once where its prey against the forces of nature. Gives me chills
It's an Allosaurus or Saurophagax (Tyrannosaurs had not evolved yet)
No it's a tyrannosaurus or intended to be. This was made in 1940 before they had a clear understanding of the timeline of dinosaurs.
@@kernowpictures2002 yet there are stegosaurus and trikes coexisting stupid comment
It's Not an Allosaurus
It's supposed to be a Tyrannosaur but this was made in the 40's so this is how they thought Trex looked back then, having 3 claws and fighting against a Stegosaurus
If it's a depiction of the KT (Cretaceous-Tertiary) extinction event, it must be a T-Rex ot other tyrannosaur because allosaurs were a Jurassic period clade of Theropod.
18:10 there’s something so eerie and unsettling about this scene, going from watching these dinosaurs going from living charmed lives in a lush rainforest to them sluggishly walking through a barren and empty desert with some collapsing from exhaustion while others keep struggling forward. The brass section playing a loud and janky tune while both carnivores and herbivores trudge together in silence without attacking one another is just so unnerving and chilling.
Also I wish triceratops fighted the t-rex instead of retreating into the water
What’s even more unsettling is the part after the dinosaurs die, just as the sun and moon start to form an eclipse, a barbaric earthquake occurs with threatening music.
Especially when the T Rex passes out. The king of the dinosaurs. Ironic
“The dinosaurs who ruled the Earth discovered that they were ruled by the leaf.”
except for the Ceratosaurus, who tried to take advantage of the quicksand/mud
Fun fact: the original plan was to go all the way up to the age of humans, where humans are dancing around after discovering fire. The scene was cut due to Walt Disney not wanting to get ire from creationists. The cut however was disliked by composer Igor Stokowski, and even turned him away from animation for a long while.
TreeckoJedi9 they should of added those scenes in because it would’ve made sense because the age of mammals began after the extinction of the dinosaurs it would’ve made sense they didn’t need to have any humans in it at all just show mammalian animals and in their age That’d would’ve been good to get Dinosaur fans at that time into the Cenozoic era or commonly known as the age of mammals
Here it just ends with life on earth (presumably) becoming extinct after this worldwide drought which ruins the story because we all know that didn’t happen if it did then nothing around today including humans wouldn’t be existing earth would just be a dead wasteland
TreeckoJedi9 How awesome would it have been if they actually gone through with the original plan? In fact, Rite Of Spring IS about primitive human rituals.
Honestly I’m surprised for 1940 that they were able to get away with showing as much as they did. For a long time it was illegal to even teach evolution in schools.
I grew up with this film. I loved this sequence the most out of all of them. But it was always so sad.
@@FreemanicParacusia Probably because movies weren't considered serious art yet.
Stravinski also hated Disney for performing the ballet out of sequence.
Probably THE best animated depiction of the era of the dinosaurs. It doesn't portray the dinosaurs as cutesy cartoon characters or as movie monsters, but, instead, as they actually were: animals.
Well it’s more like an artistic representation that tried to depict their behavior as true animals. This was considerably inaccurate even for the time.
@@Defenestration700 Other is than the animals being represented in the same time period it’s accurate for the time it was released.
Yes
The Land Before Time franchise is THE best, period.
@@Kevmaster2000 the land before time 29 f*** it here’s a dinosaur
I remember this sequence frightened the living crude out of me as a child, so bad I had nightmares, but for some obscure reason, I would rewatch it over and over again.
I became very frightened of it (in particular the music and the volcanic scenes) as I got older, but as a very young child this entire segment had me glued to the screen too. Even when I loved it I always found it deeply unsettling.
Same here. It terrified me but I was compelled to watch it again and again. I think I was trying to understand it.
If you think this was unsettling, you should watch the ballet which involves a dance about pagan human sacrifice.
Fore some reason watching the life leave the stegosaurus did always give me a weird feeling like a mix between sad and spooky.
My dad had a Fantasia video but never played it. When I got older I watched it again and I found out why. I must’ve cried when the Stegosaurus got killed. I was obsessed with dinosaurs as a young child and Stegosaurus was my favorite.
I always found it interesting as a child to see the T-Rex collapse from exhaustion and dehydration, dying in the sand, after the contrast of seeing it as a fearless predator killing the Stegosaurus. It just sorta drove home the point to me that everyone is equal in death.
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Even though the old theories of the Dinosaurs and prehistoric times are now outdated in Fantasia it’s still fun to watch and learn on how far we’ve come on our understanding of pre history. I grew up watching the original Fantasia and this sequence in the movie is something that I love and will never forget.
Honestly this is the most underrated segment. Who doesn't love dinosaurs 👍
Yes. T-Rex lived nearer in time to humans, 65 million years, than they did to Stegosaurus, 70 million years.
That is up to questioning. It is actually well researched.
Actually much of it is more or less correct.
I wish they'd re release fantasia with updated animation. They could redo this segment to be more scientifically accurate
Am I the only one who thinks that Rite of Spring fits better with the evolution of the Earth more than a series of tribal dances?
I'm pretty sure that the tribal dances take place many years after the time of the dinosaurs 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨. That should be part of my version of the Rite of Spring ballet. Convincing and mind-blowing or what 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯?
I kind of like the evolution of earth too- (no offence to the people who choreographed those ballet dances and to Indians)
@@jellyfishjay2217 why to Indians lmao? The original choreography was inspired by and meant to replicate pagan ancient Russians.
@@meowkie oh im so sorry the costumes that they usually wear (to me) looked like they resembled Indians. sorry if it didnt
@@jellyfishjay2217 Do you mean natives, or East-Asia Indians? Either way, you should look up traditional Russian clothing! As humans we definitely shared some wave-lengths but there are some pretty unique and cool differences between Indigenous Russia and Indigenous America c:
I love how hellish this feels. All of the organisms featured in the animation are presented as demonish and always shown feeding and competing with each other. While I understand that this is how life operates in reality the atmosphere is so tangible.
That's still how it works today, only humans beat the system
@@Defenestration700 Because we're stupid and deserve to die.
Portrays the fear and energy of predator and prey well.
@@APoliticalConfusionAndMess No, It's because we're smart and adaptable
Wildlife really is that way. It's hell. Bambi is a gross misrepresentation of wildlife. The owl woulda chowed down on those rabbits before the first scene ended in real life. No foxes, coyotes, wolves, bears were shown. Even squirrels eat chipmunks in real life, and they were friends in the movie.
For some reason I find this segment more scary than Night on Bald mountain. I don’t why, but there’s something about this segment I find really unsettling.
Maybe because it represented something that was more realistic?
It scares you because this is what happens all the time in nature
And the Dinosaurs, while scientifically inaccurate in this film, are real, very real. Most of them are gone including the ones depicted but it happened, and thank God that they didn't continue to exist for longer, for all we know they could have evolved into a civilization like ours and snuffed out our primitive ancestors
@@icedragon23472, at the time (1940) the dinosaurs were absolutely accurate by a scientific point of view. Disney worked with the cooperation of the director of the American Museum of Natural History and many other scientist.
Night on Bald Mountain is about a demonic spirit tormenting damned souls, but ultimately being driven off by the light of day. Rite of Spring depicts the gruesome deaths and the extinction of entire species due to the nihilistic whims of cosmic probability, and most traces of them being wiped from existence by further geological phenomena.
yeah and the soundtrack makes the whole segment really uncomfortable. It's purposely unsettling. Stravinsky's ''Rite of Spring'' ballet was very controversial back in the 1910's. Look it up it's pretty interesting!
RIP stegosaur. You fought valiantly
Nowadays With More Knowledge About Dinosaurs It Would’ve Been More Likely That The Stegosaurus To Win
@@TeaSong1 Please shut up.
@@APoliticalConfusionAndMess I mean hes not wrong
@@TeaSong1 this puts a smile to my childhood face
RIP
It’s a mastery that back in the early 40s with no computer whatsoever they were able to make this whole piece (and the entire movie)
What especially amazes me is how the lava looks almost alive in a sense but there is no discernible human like features. Well done Disney, well done.
Just kept my 9 yr old quiet and behaved while starving and waiting for His food in a busy restaurant...THANK YOU SO MUCH
0:01 - 3:16 Introduction to the Adoration of the Earth
3:17 - 6:17 Augurs of Spring - The celebration of spring begins in the hills while an old woman enters to foretell the future.
6:18 - 7:39 The Ritual of Abduction - Young girls arrive from the river to begin the Dance of the Abduction.
7:40 - 12:00 Introduction to The Sacrifice
12:01 - 14:46 Mystic Circles of the Young Girls - The young girls engage in mysterious games while walking in circles.
14:47 - 16:02 Glorification of the Chosen One - One of the girls is chosen.
16:03 - 16:54 Evocation of the Ancestors
16:55 - 19:44 Ritual Action of the Ancestors - The Chosen One is entrusted to the old wise men
19:45 - 21:30 Dance of the Earth
21:33 - 22:13 Introduction to the Adoration of the Earth (Reprise/Finale)
I finally went ahead and watched a recording of the ballet recently. It's pretty interesting to know what scene goes to what theme now.
The fact that key scenes such as the Sacrificial Dance are elided is kind of worrying; just imagine what sequence could have been done with it. Maybe the birth of humanity if Creationists hadn't intervened?
@@GlaceonStudios Or a dinosaur dancing herself to death.
I think Stokowski did a damn good job directing it
What are the last 2 seconds
Outdated as this section is, the story of life's origins this protrays is beautifully grim
THIS is why despite how boring some segments are to kids today, Fantasia still stands it's ground over 80 years later
It's a prioneer of visual-musical story telling, letting Walt's musicians and artists having fun interputating these classical songs and I'm all for it, especially with sections like this and Night on Bald Mountain.
I like this particular bit at 14:15. It's sort of foreshadowing what's going to happen. Those dinosaurs could sense something was about to come.
Fr tho-
I wonder if any of the dinosaurs looked up and saw a daytime star that just kept getting bigger and bigger and wondering what it was until one day a rock the size of New York City crashes down from the sky turning a warm tropical planet into a literal hell scape and wiping out almost all land life
@@LordKrhiyosthe dinosaurs died of an unspecified fate here as the crater hadnt been discovered yet
My favorite segment of Fantasia, and one of the most powerful pieces of animation I've seen in my life. Everything from the music and the early stages of the Earth to the thrilling dinosaurs, this is art.
Everyone talks about how scary the volcanoes and the T-Rex attack are, but what unsettles me to this day is the extinction scenes. Took the existential, apocalyptic horror up to an 11.
My grandma who died this year at age 83 was born the day this movie came out. The scene you see here was seen by soldiers right before shipping off to the battlefields of Europe during ww2. People that watched this film in theatres had no television at home yet as that only became common after the war. Let that sink in for a moment.
Rest in peace to her
The film not being seen by Europeans is why it failed. big market for disney flicks over there
It’s a big game to play for big risks
No fun taking a gamble for free hands
Although we now know this is scientifically inaccurate, it is still nice to take a look at this movie as it serves to be a window that shows us how the field of paleontology evolved throughout the years. And it is nice to see what we thought was accurate back in the 1940s. Plus the animation works greatly with the music and dare I say it, even more than it being played over a ballet.
If they were to make another Fantasia film, they should do this sequence again, but with scientifically accurate Dinosaurs, to show how much has changed in our understanding of the Mesozoic era
@@lochness5524 I agree
@@lochness5524 That would be interesting!
Yeah, I can see what you mean by saying this music works better in this segment than in a ballet. But honestly, if you watch the Rite of Spring ballet, and you watch it enough times (like I've watched it a million times, because I have a problem LOL), it actually does work pretty well. :) Though I totally get why Disney and Stokowski chose to fit this music to this segment and story, since the music is described as very earthy and violent, the music and the story of this segment practically go hand in hand. :D And this segment and its music inspired my love of dinosaurs. XD
This wasn't even close to accurate for the 40's. But the public didn't know that and Disney took a lot of artistic liberties. And I'm glad he did. From an artistic standpoint this is perfection.
No scene from any other movie I've seen shows how fragile and powerless we are in the universe, but at the same time how great an opportunity it is for us to exist like this scene.
It’s strange knowing how Disney took the Rite of Spring which was really about an ancient Slavic spring festival that ended in human sacrifice and made it about Dinosaurs
Still fascinating nevertheless.
i know a lot of it is based only off of what they knew at the time and that we know so much more now, but i also really vibe the retro dino aesthetic, Where they're all swamp dwellers who drage their tails and the world around them is as alien and savage as they are. The very definition of Primeval.
The world around us now is savage. We have just found ways to defend and isolate ourselves from it. All of the other wild creatures live in that hell every second of their lives, which aren't very long.
the end of this always freaked me out as a kid with all the grating sounds and rocks just rocketing out of the earth. NEVER sat well with me, still kinda doesn't. still, I got like, 9 uninterrupted minutes of dinosaurs so I was happy.
YO I agree lol! If you haven’t heard how the score is intended to sound, it’s NOTHING like the Fantasia score. The screeching horns during the earthquake segment (Dance of the Earth) are non-existent in Stravinsky’s composition and they are quite literally the bane of my existence. I’m here doing exposure therapy because this specific recording of the rite of spring is a legit irrational phobia of mine. The imagery of the unstoppable planet of lava, dinosaurs collapsing in their dust bowl of thirst and starvation, and finally the earth ripping itself apart, does nooooot help lmao
@@meowkie I never knew that about the horns so that's a cool thing to find out! It makes sense some drastic license went to what became of this piece and the story they wanted to tell. I'd say good luck on this exposure, but... all the dinosaurs starving, dying, and turning to bonds still makes me extremely uncomfortable watching! As beautiful as the art and animation is, I took this better as a kid lol
@@liamc9467 funny how our minds do that yeah? Stuff that was easier to swallow as a child becomes harder to stomach as we grow.
I loved the volcanos and earthquake scenes so much! I’m a geologist now so I guess it makes sense!
This and the mountain satan scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. Yet I love dinosaurs to this day.
Fr tho
Don Bluth had to have gotten some inspiration from these scenes. He did start his career with Disney after all.
So nostalgic. When I was in the second grade I always used to come home from school and fall asleep to this on the VCR. My favorite parts are 3:18, 14:47, 15:46, 17:47, 18:48, and 20:17. I have to admit, when I was younger I would always throw a tantrum because the stegosaurus died. Poor stegosaurus. Lol. Thanks to anyone who took the time to read this.
Thanks for sharing! I'm still scared of this sequence but there's something so comforting knowing you liked it enough to fall asleep to it. I loved it when I was very young and also felt like the Stegosaurus deserved to survive that fight.
Lol when I was like 4 I would watch fantasia every night and my mom says I would always fall asleep at the beginning of the dinosaurs. I like to think that I fell asleep to the bassoon solo every night because I’m now a bassoonist lol.
This is a masterpiece. You don't see this kind of depth from Disney or any movie these days ... First that fight with the Trex I remember at the shock that and sadness when the stego didnt win. And that scene where the dinosaurs start dropping down in the heat ... god that gets to me every time. I imagine that hell must be like that.
The drum buildup to the wild horns and percussion for the earthquake/tsunami part at the end is still so damn good.
Damn right
I don't like that.
Too bad they didn't have sound effects
That part gave me nightmares for 2-3 years as a child. I thought that would happen to me. I thought the world was gonna end by splitting open and me and everyone else was gonna fall through the cracks. I think it’s cool now.
Gonna tell my kids this was Jurassic World
Well yes, but actually yes
Actually when the pterodactyl dies(gets eaten) that’s very similar shot, practically identical, to the scene in Jurassic World.
HAH YES ME TOO XD
Growing up this was always my favorite part of Fantasia
Even though the T-Rex gave me nightmares, I still loved everything about the segment
not a t rex
Though some dinosaur representations are now outdated due to more recent findings, The Rites of Spring sequence is still gorgeous to look at it and gives an understandable take on the evolution cycle. I was blown away the first time I saw Fantasia and it deserves its permanent slot in my video collection. In some respects it still has not been surpassed.
Something I absolutely personally love about this segment is the symbolism of water throughout the entire thing. Before the water, there was lava and fire. Chaos. Then water came and helped cool the Earth, which gives way to life. The entire time we see life on screen, it is shown with some kind of water. They're eating and drinking from water, and existing in places with it. It's shown they cannot live without it. That life cannot thrive without it. Then, when the extinction comes, there's no water. Only heat and chaos once again. Once they all die, chaos unfolds from the Earth and then water comes back as a reset. Showing that everything is a cycle, and life will once again evolve and thrive if given the chance. I think it's a really cool bit of artistry, and this is one of my favorite animations of all time. Not to mention how charming and fascinatingly alien the outdated depictions of life are. It's so mesmerizing. You really feel like you're in an alien world for a while.
this portion of fantasia will always be my favorite. the animation, the score, it's all so incredible
According to the DVD commentary for Fantasia: the Rite of Spring segment inspired a fascination with dinosaurs in a young Michael Crichton and that would serve as the crux of his most famous novel, Jurassic Park.
The Rite of Spring is also my personal favorite segment in Fantasia.
One of the few times I'd say the movie was much better than the book.
@@psychedashell why? because the book was too gory or what?
@@matplayer1232 Not very often that a movie gets compared to a book and gets blessed by a review with the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words" but Jurassic Park is one of them.
The characters in the movie are better, the characters in the book are bland and really skimmed over. John Hammond in the book really stands out for being emotionless while the one in the movie has a real "What have I done!?" Dr. Frankenstein feel to him.
@@psychedashell not really
It is not just about the characters and dinosaurs
The book has some more deep mesages within it
But it is understandable why you prefer the movie over it,since the book can get very disturbing,while the movie seems more balanced,being watchable by most ages
@@matplayer1232 I don't know where you get disturbing out of bland but whatever floats your boat.
Anyone else find the inaccuracy in how the Dinosaurs are drawn gives it extra charm and helps this animation stand out from other Dinosaur media? There's something interesting and alluring about early Paleoart. It has a nice aesthetic to it.
It has taken me decades to realize the genius of this piece of music.
This was always my favorite of Fantasia, I also like the Greek one.
I see people saying the fight scene terrified them the most as kids, but honestly? I always thought that was cool. You know what part really terrified me? The extinction. That absolutely horrified me. Especially how the earthquakes and tsunamis destroy the bones after, leaving no trace of their existence.
Same. It honestly makes you think about meaning of life
Watching as a kid: “T-rex Scary”
Watching now: *Existential dread*
@@justinstewart5963 Oh, good, it's not just me.
Despite this film coming out in the 1940’s the animation holds up really well today despite the inaccuracies think about it this is land before time levels of animation it’s really a shame that animation has gotten pretty terrible nowadays I mean those dinosaurs look like they’re real despite it being 2D animation and it’s in the 1940’s it’s still pretty damn good
I absolutely adore these older reconstructions of dinosaurs. I know people know a days really hate looking at them and can't stand the inaccuracies, but I love them. They seem like creatures right out of a fairy tale, and they honestly look much cooler than the more accurate reconstructions of today. I'd like to see something nowadays be done where these older designs make a comeback, to pay tribute to the adventure films of the '20s and '30s. Hell, maybe a remake of the 1925 lost world movie would be a great idea.
I am personally not a huge fan of this movie, but this segment (And arguably the ending one on bald mountain/Ave Maria) has my attention. I love how there's no dialogue, no sound effects even, we're just watching animals in their habitats. I'm not saying I want a full movie like this or anything, but I just find it fascinating here. My favorite part has to be the Elasmosaurus's swimming in the shoreline. I know it's inaccurate now and they have the outdated neck posture, and couldn't go on land, however it gives off a perfect atmosphere.
I would love to see retro design of dinosaur make it into a Morden day moive but then you will hear people bitiching about it not accury reeeeee but I hope it happens one day
I wouldn't say they look cooler, but they are more artistic
@@bughuntwilson5937 theoretically you could have the characters in the movie acknowledging the inaccuracies to lessen the effects of it
Agree with that! modern dinosaurs look Goofy
If you, like me, have a fondness for old dinosaur depictions despite their inaccuracies, I think you might like this video where it's discussed on a psychological level why we are still drawn to them despite them all being wholly out of date by now. ruclips.net/video/IKXokoLHXQI/видео.html
I will be honest to say that this is my absolute favorite segment within Fantasia. When I was younger, I was stuck to the screen with it's fantastic (albeit inaccurate) representation of prehistoric life. As I got older, it still has not lost its touch with me. I've actually listened closer to the music and the music helps with the representation. It's quite mad, really. I then decided to watch a full rendition of the original score of Rite of Spring and I was surprised at how groundbreaking it was. Compared to other scores which feel very linear and progressed to a point, this score had such dissonance with tone and rhythms would abruptly change, which is very unique.
Going back to this segment, a lot of people rank this as their least favorite or they don't know what to feel about it. Which is a shame because this is a roller coaster of a segment. My theory is that because some of the segments, not all but some, have a very linear feel to their stories, this one doesn't and as a result they a bit taken aback by the changes and have the feeling of, "There's dinosaurs and then they're gone, WTF?" The composer's intent, as stated by Deems Taylor (the host of Fantasia), was to express life in it's primitive state. It's full of craziness and full of abrupt beginnings and ends. So I think they succeeded in that regard, even if they weren't totally faithful to the score.
Also, you feel like an observer of life, as you're floating through the vacuum of space, the eruption of volcanoes, all the way to the emergence and extinction of the dinosaurs. You aren't meant to connect to it emotionally but simply see what life might've been like if you could go back in time.
Exceptional music and animation.
You can feel genuine tension and fear in the tyrannosaur fight, as well as a bizarre but nice, warming feeling of an older earth. That alien-but-familiar feeling is only amplified by the nostalgia I've held for this film. It's like meeting something/someone you've met before, but can't exactly pin it down.
Yes, it's amazing to consider that the film is 80 years old. Even more amazing to me is that the music is 110 years old.
Thought of something kind of dark. Imagine what the last dinosaur was thinking at the last moments. Sees a t-rex coming up behind him and the last dinos, thinking he's gonna get eaten. However he sees the t-rex drop dead of thirst. Then one by one he sees the last of his kind drop dead. I always thought he or she would be mentally broken at that moment think, "Oh god I'm the Last one left. What the hell do I do?" Kind of Dark to think of.
This brings back such memories. Rest in peace, grandma
Favorite sequence of the entire film
This was the scene that started a life long obsession with dinosaurs when I was a kid. Saw this before Land before time.
I used to watch this as a little kid in the early 90's its crazy today is the first time i've watched it again. I remember this and Night on Bald mountain being favorite.
It’s weird to think that Rite of Spring was only 25 years old when production started on this film. This was basically contemporary music.
Tha IS really weird. Even I knew Stravinsky was alive during its production yet I had believed by then he was an already an old man long famous from his prime years and Disney was homaging someone in their golden years. But that makes sense. This film came out during the forties and that piece was out in the early 1900s. So this would be kinda like the equivalent of us making the film Heavy Metal back during the 80s again today as a reboot, using popular rock and pop radio tracks from only the past 10-30 so years. Or more accurately, if we had made a film in the vein of Heavy Metal or Fantasia, and we used for the soundtrack a bunch of vintage old songs from the 1930s or even the 1890s, and THEN chose to stick a single 1970s disco song in there.
@@avosmash2121I’d kinda be interested in a 60s-80s fantasia. I don’t think music with lyrics would work, but there’s so much great instrumental and electronic music from that era. Like a segment set to Ateraxia the Unexplained?? Could you imagine how cool that would be?
Loved The Rite of Spring a lot because I'm a dinosaur lover. I read in Disney Wiki that The Rite of Spring was first scripted to show the whole history of Earth which after the dinosaur extinction would show the Ice Age with woolly mammoths, saber-tooth cats and cavemen, but it was cut because the Disney company soon discoverd showing the rise of man wasn't all that popular back in the 40's.
Always fascinated by the way Disney animators made liquids look and behave. From water, to lava the waves, bubbles, streams, flows, drips are really incredible.
Effects animators, like Joshua Meador.
I have no memory of Night on Bald Mountain, but I *VIVIDLY* remember this as a kid, not in a traumatic way, but in a pure fascination way. I'm pretty sure this is what sparked my interest in dinasoars and prehistoric animals as a whole.
I barely have any memory of Night on Bald Mountain either (probably blocked it out of my memory because it scared me so bad haha)
This is an absolute work of art. I would have liked to see a little shrew-like mammal emerge from a dinosaur skull as a symbol of ushering in a new era. One thing I love is the design of the feathered dinosaur at 12.20, scientists weren't even thinking like this 30 years ago, never mind 82!
This is one of my favorite animations of all time
To me, the T-Rex attack wasn't nearly as nightmarish as the dinosaur extinction. You even feel bad for the Rex.
same, I always thought the fight was cool af even though I wanted the stego to win, but once the drought hits I would just feel sad and desperate for them. When the T-Rex roars and falls, I used to be so sad. :
Although a bit anachronistic, I find it amazing that we now are closer in time to the T-Rex than the T-Rex was to the Stegosaurus. That shows how many millions of years dinosaurs actually lived. 😳
To this day, I remember how, as a kid, this part of the movie always grabbed - and held tightly onto - my attention whenever it came on: the T. rex showing up to those screeching orchestral stings, how sad the stegosaurus(?) fighting for its life made me, and how disturbing watching the dinosaurs march toward extinction under a red sun was - not to mention the segment at the end with the brass section blaring over a giant earthquake tearing apart the land.
2d animation will always be better than 3d for me
Damn, before Jurassic Park I dare say that this is the best demonstration of dinosaurs I've ever seen at that time, they were acting like animals, not like clumsy monsters that broke everything in front of them. Disney was great.
The music that plays right when the t-rex is shown is so badass.
80 years later and still one of my favorite sequence
That opening riff.. chills. Nothing comes close.
The scenes where the T Rex and the Stego are just staring at each other while the hyper tense, quiet music plays in the background are fucking terrifying.
As a kid I was most locked into the dinosaurs. As an adult I am more intrigued with the volcanoes erupting in unison before exploding in a super eruption, volcanic gasses spewing from a cinder cone and igniting, mountains and rock faces violently rising from crushing tectonic plates, and then it all going quiet and fading into the darkness of a solar eclypse. Bravo!
3:17 For these volcanoes, they were actually made from drops of black paint that were turned upside-down in a vat of water, which is how they developed smoke patterns. The music in the background in this scene sounds pretty tribal, which is like the sound of Native American drums beating. And the volcanoes are kinda like teepees with smoke coming out and that's what the song What Made The Red Man Red from Peter Pan reminds me of, because this whole volcanic scene, here in the Rite Of Spring sequence in Fantasia, makes me think of tribal music and tribal dances.
For me, I get the sense of power of the Earth itself when this music plays over its evolution especially the beginning when the planet was once a hellish looking place. It also especially helps when the eruption sincs in with the music like (3:20), (3:22) (3:26) and onward.
@@SharksandDinos But when you listen to this sequence on an old audio cassette tape or CD, these scores, here @ 3:17, 14:47, & 20:23, are full of jump scares
The original ballet that accompanied the Rite of Spring was about a primitive tribe in Russia doing a spring sacrificial dance. So not far off!
This part sounds like deviljho theme
Well the Rite of Spring was originally a ballet about primitive pagan Russians.
Fantasia will always be one of my favourite movies. I'm very sure that the imagery in it is what awakened my interest for Fantasy
Every segment in Fantasia told you a different aspect of a life experience.
This segment was really about the forces of nature and shows that not even the strongest can match earths power.
They were going to show the age of mammals and the dawn of man, but some creationists threw a fit about it. Fortunately, some artwork has surfaced online back in 2006, giving us a vision of what could have been.
that is what "Fantasia 2000" should have been but everything dumbed down by then, management changed.
I kinda wonder about that supposedly being the reason. When you think about it, it'd be very odd that creationists would have pitched a fit about depicting mankind's origins, when you consider that the Rite of Spring ended up depicting several scientific theories that led to mankind's origin. It shows everything from the cosmic beginnings of stars & planets across the universe, to the Earth's surface formation and the start of life in the ocean, and then to how life evolved from cellular organisms to full on animals that would eventually lead to us. If creationists & religious fanatics were that bad in 1940, I doubt Fantasia could've ever gotten away with depicting what it did in the final product.
I personally believe it's more likely that Walt Disney simply chose to go in a different direction for artistic purposes than the fear of creationists throwing a fit.
It's really cool seeing how far our understanding has come.
Its also cool to see how long ago we knew about certain things, like life mysteriously starting as bacteria in the ocean
13:31 & 13:59 I always thought the way they ate was satisfying. The T. rex scene used to not want to have my feet on the floor but I would do that t rex vs other dinosaur scene with my sister
lol same XD
As much as I critique the inaccuracies in this scene (which I can forgive since this was made in the forties), I still think this is an excellent piece of animation featuring dinosaurs. I was getting Walking With Dinosaurs and Walking With Beasts flashbacks the last time I watched this. I like to think that this scene may have been an inspiration for kids to study dinosaurs and other aspects of prehistory.
The little baby Triceratops!!!! They’re on screen for maybe 5 seconds, and I adore them.
I loved watching this when I was a kid..
19:30 65 million years ago the age of the dinosaurs finally fades away, and from its wreckage, a new world of species had already been emerge from today, birds, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, fish, and insects. However, we'll not forget that these dinosaurs are our legendary species.
Dinosauria is not a species and is not extinct. The dinosaurs simply lost domain over the planet and the mammals occupy the niches once occupied by dinosaurs. The surviving dinosaurs are the maniraptors.
This probably was the first time dinosaurs were portrayed in their own time and environment. The idea that this probably inspired authors and directors like Steven Spielberg to make their dinosaur stories
The whole sequence of the right of spring was so unsettling to me. The whole time, I was on edge yet so fascinated
phenomenal animation drawn by hand. amazing music that supports the animation perfectly. truly a masterpiece.
There is some concept art online of the cut “Age of Mammals/Cenozoic era” segment, it’s by Kay Nielsen and it depicts two sabre-toothed cats (likely smilodon) stalking a trio of mammoths on a cold night. Would have loved to see the Cenozoic depicted in the segment, shame it got cut…
Idk ab anyone else but the part with volcanoes was always the scariest part
Everyone goes on about the Stego and the T-Rex but the scariest parts for me was ALWAYS the volcano segment, especially when the ocean crawls up on land, and the earthquake. Scary af
That was always my favorite part. Just when things seem as infernal as they can get, the ground itself explodes in an uproar from the very bowels of hell!
Whenever I’m out exploring prehistoric coastlines, badlands, etc, this musical piece is the first thing that starts playing in my head
You're lying
@@OmegaRedFan What a weird and random thing to lie about, lol
That Allosaurus sure is a mean fool lol I felt sorry for that stegosaurus
That’s a T.rex not a Allosaurus
Michael Coulter just to clarify, your talking about the animal that fought the Stegosaurus right? If that’s the case, then you have literally no idea what an Allosaurus even looks like. They have 2 display crests on their snout, kind of like those in a Dilphosaurus, plus the animal in this film has the robust skull structure of a Tyrannosaurid, not the more slimmer skull of an Allosaurus
Michael Coulter of course I know that. But non of that changes the fact that this animal shown here is not an Allosaurus
Michael Coulter I ALREADY TOLD YOU THE DIFFERENCE ALREADY YOU IDOT. THE 3 FINGERED THING IS JUST A SCIENTIFIC INNACURACY ON THIS T.REX, I REPEAT, A T,REX, NOT, AN ALLOSAURUS
@@lochness5524 it is a allosaurus the movie May say it's a T-Rex but it's not
I love Stravinskis original idea but this segment lines up just as perfectly. It's ridiculous that he didn't like it. Even though was a genius lol
This scene brought me to Stravinsky, frightened me as a child, then Stravinsky brought me back as a curious adult.
12:25 Compsognathus the smallest dinosaur and the size of a cat. Archaeopteryx a small bird like dinosaur who loves to eat insects.
As a bassoonist, I have been working on this solo for I think 2 years now. It’s one of my favorites and it’s amazing to play
They aren't anthropomorphic but you can clearly see how expressive the Dinosaurs are and i always felt bad for them in the desert scene...
Also, i always wanted to pet the baby Triceratops. at 13:47. They're just so cute
Absolutely Love le sacre du pritemps. Discovered when i was a child and LOVED dinosaurs; evolved into as an adult, the entire piece is a meditation on the beautiful sometimes violent/chaotic circle of life. It encompasses the struggle to live at any level. ❤️ Stravinsk
I wonder if Genndy Tartakovsky saw this as a kid & gave him the idea 4 adult swim's Primal.😎
Or maybe that dinosaur/doggy episode of Dexter's Laboratory.
Maybe
This was always my favorite scene in this film, especially the sequence that shows the evolution from one celled organisms in the ocean to the time the fish came up on land as amphibians. Just beautiful. The science isn't entirely accurate by what we know today (especially involving the time of the dinosaurs and their extinction, but much of it still holds. As a child, the music frightened me. Now it just haunts me.
Ilove the rite of spring with dionsaurs in fantasia 1940
More fascinating and deep than 99% of things posted on social media
no shit
@@edeliteedelite1961 yes shit
14:48 Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex) he has a big head, a mouth full of banana sized sharp teeth, a big body, a long tail and two tiny arms with two fingers on them. This one has three fingers and was king of dinosaurs.
Must have watched this 100 times as a child