Seventy-five years after its 1940 release, Walt Disney’s self-styled exercise in “a new form of screen entertainment” remains a masterpiece of the art of animation. The concept and some of the episodes are tainted with kitsch, but there’s no other animated film with its scope and ambition—it is, in Otis Ferguson’s words, “one of the strange and beautiful things that have happened in the world.”
Fantasia
G • 2 hours • 1940