Fantasia (1940)

In Disney's experimental film with many animated sequences beautifully integrating classical music and abstract images - and the first film to introduce 'stereo-like' Fantasound:

• Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite including the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies" and six red-topped mushrooms in "Chinese Dance"
• Paul Dukas' classical The Sorcerer's Apprentice with apprentice Mickey Mouse in his master's wizard hat and the march of the relentless brooms carrying endless buckets of water - and his conducting of the stars in the sky
• Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring depicting the beginnings of the cosmos, solar system, and the planet Earth and then life itself - with the Age of the Dinosaurs
• Beethoven's 6th Symphony (Pastoral Symphony), including a scene by the Brook with Centaurs and Centaurettes
• Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours - including ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators, and most memorably the hippos in tutus (Hippo Ballet)

"The Rite of Spring" (Age of Dinosaurs)	"Night on Bald Mountain"	"Ave Maria"

• Moussorgsky's dramatic Night on Bald Mountain - a celebration of evil during the night of the Witches' Sabbath
• the final dawn of light segment of Schubert's Ave Maria