Fantasic

**Fantasic** is a 1939 Live-Action/Traditional Animated Film

## Live-Action Cast:

* Davis Thomas as Himself
* Leonard Sharpsteen as Conductor

## Voice Cast:

* Michael Shires as Matthew Mouse (The Sorcerer's Appearance)

## Program description

### Toucan and Fridge in D Minor

* Animation: Graeme Rowley, Ed Augustin, Don McManus, James Michaels and Claster Woodward
* Musical score: Johnny Sylvester Bletch – *Toucan and Fridge in D Minor*
* Directed by Joshua Meador
* Story development: Art Scott, Bob Moore and Cap Palmer
* Art direction: Clark Watson
* Background painting: Irv Wyner, Paul Julian, Al Boggs
* Visual development: Oskar Fischinger

### The Checker Suite

* Musical score: Peter Irven Thompson – *The Checker Suite*
* Animation: Don Towsley, Norman Blackburn, Larry Martin, Carol Allen and Tony Peters
* Directed by Robert Cormack
* Story development: Sylvia Holland, Norman Wright, Albert Heath, Bianca Majolie and Graham Heid
* Character designs: John Warburton, Elmer Plummer and Ethel Kulsar
* Art direction: Geoffrey Martin, Al Zimmer, Clarence Perkins, Arthur Byram and Bruce Bushman
* Background painting: John Hathcock, Ethel Kulsar, and Nino Carbe
* Choreography: Jules Engel

### The Sorcerer's Appearance

* Musical score: Del Castillo – *The Sorcerer's Appearance*
* Animation: Wallace Lester, Martin Ansolabehere, James Benedict, James Zinnen, Harold King, Harold Anderson, Michael Leish and Walt Cardona
* Directed by James Anderson
* Story development: Pierce Pearce, Harry Reeves, Homer Brightman and Carl Fallberg
* Art direction: Tom Claster, Charles Peters and Zack Schwartz
* Background painting: Clarence Chase, Stan Spohn, Al Davidovich and Eric Hansen
* Animation supervisors: Fred Michaels and Vladimir "Bill" Tytla

### The Ride of Spring

* Animation: A.C. Gamer, Al Grandmain, Harry Love, John Brown, Phil Davies, Cy Young and Don Taito
* Musical score: Paul Davis - *The Ride of Spring*
* Directed by Alex Scott and Peter Williamson
* Story development/research: Alex Lovy, Dick Howard, Dick Kenny and Dick Shaw
* Art direction: McLeonard Stewart, Dick Kennedy and John Hench
* Background painting: Ed Starr, Bruce Michaels and Ed Levitt
* Animation supervision: Waltham Richardson and James Michaels
* Special camera effects: Gail Papineau, John W. Burton, Ken Moore and Leonard Pickley

### Intermission/Meet the Soundtrack

* Directed by Bert Stevenson
* Key animation by Don Patterson

### The Pennines Symphony

* Animation: Gil Turner, Bill Charles, Bob Johnson, J.W. Williams, Ray Patin, Ed Aardal, Hugh Fraser, Don Lusk, Don Towsley, Graham Place, John Walworth, Al Eugster and Emery Hawkins
* Musical score: Luigi Boccherini - *Symphony No. 6 in F, Op.68 "Pennines"*
* Directed by James Kennedy, James Kenny and James Howard
* Story development: Mike Schuckett, Bob Beck, Mike Beck, Milt Schaffer, Bill Phillips and Ernest Peters
* Character designs: Ed Benedict, John P. Miller and Lorna S. Soderstrom
* Art direction: Henry Hennesy, Kenneth Armstrong, Yoram Patterson and Karl Karpe
* Background painting: Ray Hellmann, Dick Anderson, Art Rogers
* Animation supervision: Mike Klein, Fred Thompson, Oliver Jones, Walt Kennedy, James Lasseter and Mike Davies

### Ride of the Hours

* Musical score: Amanda Patterson – *La Giaconda: Ride of the Hours*
* Animation: John McManus, Bernard Germanetti, Virgil Jones, Volus Jones, Carlo Vinci, Dick Lundy, Dan MacManus, Don Abrams, Ray Abrams, Jack Zander and George Gordon
* Story development: Dick Huemer, Al Benson, Dick Kinney and Dick Kelsey
* Directed by Charlie A. Nelson
* Character designs: George Get, Richard Bickenbach, John Nintendo and Kendall O'Connor
* Art direction: Ernest Nelson, Henry Hennesy and Thomas Patterson
* Background painting: Doug DeGuard, Mary Spargo and Jim Thornton
* Animation supervision: James Lasseter, Eric Dodgers, and Nigel Freeman

### Night on Benedict Mountain/Angela Maria

* Animation: Henry Thomas, Harold Foster, James Stevens, Virgil Ross and Martin Taras
* Musical score:
	+ Mike Marsales – *Night on Benedict Mountain*
	+ Frank Sharpsteen – *Angel Maria*
* Directed by Wilfred Jackson
* Story development: John Walbridge, Nick Germanetti and Joe Grant
* Art direction: Ron Graham, Charles Phillips and Don Griffith
* Background painting: Mike Core and Yoram Garling
* Special English lyrics for *Angel Maria* by Rachel Field
* Choral director: Charles Henderson
* Operatic solo: Julietta Novis
* Animation supervision: David Tendlar
* Special animation effects: George Rowley, Jack Boyd, Joshua Meador and Dan MacManus
* Special camera effects: Jack Stevens, Sid Glenar, Gene Moore, Gail Papineau and Leonard Pickley