May I say first of all how greatly honoured we are that you should give this interview for the Royal College of Music Magazine.—I\e are indeed greatly indebted lo you. I am glad to do it because I owed very much to the Royal College of Music in my youth and I learned many things there which have stayed with me all my life. It 1s now 30 years since the release of Walt Disney's film FANTASIA and it is still going strong, in fact stronger than ever it was when first released although one must bear in mind that there was a world war at the time. It was an experimental film—Disney was always looking ahead—and there were chances to be taken. For you it must have been an exciting adventure even though there will have been moments of difficulty as with the creation of any big work of art.
Yes, because Disney was developing still further certain techniques of animation which I believe had already started in Germany [1]. ‘Then Disney carried on much further and evolved new methods of technique of colour, of motion—-and the result was something which I feel was quite important [2]. There are millions of people who go to the cinema all over the world, but fewer, just a few hundreds or thousands, who go to concert halls. In FANTASIA there was very great music of Bach, Stravinsky, Schubert and so forth, so millions of people are hearing that music and I often receive letters from them to say "Chank you for doing it because I was always afraid to go to a concert hall, I dont know why I was afraid but I was. When I went to FANTASIA I heard the great masters music and realized it was not at all painful. On the contrary I enjoyed it; it was a pleasure to listen to it.
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