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Released
1940 · FILM

Fantasia

A visionary conductor partners with groundbreaking animation to bring eight classic symphonies to vivid life, battling doubt and technical hurdles to redefine the boundaries of cinema.

“The most sensational sound you'll ever see!”

Directed by
James Algar, Samuel Armstrong
Written by
Joe Grant, Dick Huemer
Rated
MPA · Approved
Runtime
124 min
AnimationFamilyFantasy
Streaming on
  • Disney+

Synopsis

Walt Disney

Credits

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 124+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Bill WilnerShot by James Wong HoweSound by Robert B Ingebretsen

Box Office

1940 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 34× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$76.4M

Budget$2.3M
Worldwide gross$76.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

1990481 theaters
$41.6M($105.3M today)
1985225 theaters
$5.4M($16.7M today)
Total re-release
$47.0M

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Versions & cuts

  • 1946 cut· 115 min · 1946
  • 1991 VHS release· 120 min · 1991
  • 1942 cut· 80 min · 1942
  • uncut· 124 min

Also known as

  • Fantasíaes
  • (French)Fantasia
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesNov 13, 1940
  • BrazilDec 9, 1940
  • ArgentinaDec 25, 1940

Companies

ProductionWalt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions

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