Fantasia Premieres: Disney Redefines Animation
Walt Disney unleashed *Fantasia* onto the world with its new Broadway roadshow, fusing classical music with animation in a way audiences had never seen. This bold experiment forced theaters to install expensive stereophonic sound systems and proved that cartoons could tackle serious art, permanently expanding the medium's cultural reach.
November 13, 1940
86 years ago
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Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne, uniting two powerful dynasties and strengthening the Capetian influence in France.
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Royalist forces under King Charles I retreated from Turnham Green when they encountered a Parliamentarian army of 24,000 London-trained band militia blocking th…
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