If you've listened to my latest radio story Sarge: the Golden Astronauts you'll know I've got the underworld on my mind!
Looking for other visions of the dark one I stumbled across this You Tube clip from Fantasia, the Disney epic from 1940. Its staggering how modern it all looks, helped immeasurably by being in colour. The winged devil is quite stunning as are the bare breasted harpies [which must have been a problem in 1940] and the imagery is rather scary, especially for small kids!
Despite having sold a couple of copies of the soundtrack record album at sci-fi fairs, I know very little about the film but can appreciate that its at the very origins of animation. Do you know the film well readers?
When watching the clip I couldn't help noticing a similarity with the 1978 animated movie The Lord of the Rings by Ralph Bakshi. The Disney Devil could easily be Balrog!
Here's a You Tube clip showing Frodo meeting the frog-like Gollum.
Looking for other visions of the dark one I stumbled across this You Tube clip from Fantasia, the Disney epic from 1940. Its staggering how modern it all looks, helped immeasurably by being in colour. The winged devil is quite stunning as are the bare breasted harpies [which must have been a problem in 1940] and the imagery is rather scary, especially for small kids!
Despite having sold a couple of copies of the soundtrack record album at sci-fi fairs, I know very little about the film but can appreciate that its at the very origins of animation. Do you know the film well readers?
When watching the clip I couldn't help noticing a similarity with the 1978 animated movie The Lord of the Rings by Ralph Bakshi. The Disney Devil could easily be Balrog!
Here's a You Tube clip showing Frodo meeting the frog-like Gollum.
and another You Tube clip showing Eowyn facing the mighty Witch King from the different but related animated film The Return of the King released by Rankin Bass in 1980.
To be honest, despite loving the two Lord of the Rings cartoon films I prefer the animation of Fantasia. What do you think readers?
the demon in Fantasia is more frightening,i'm agree with you.... ew
ReplyDeleteIt is quite brilliant isn't it EW! Hope you have a happy Easter. Will you be getting any toys?
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