Fantasia, every mention

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• ▶ 2:13:40 Ben Gilbert Fantasia tried to make this giant bet in a new type of sound for movies called Fantasound.
• ▶ 2:13:49 Ben Gilbert The budget for Fantasia was 50% bigger than Snow White, and in the first run at the box office, they tried to use Fantasound, this new sound technology they had invented, and distributors didn't pick it up to do like a real first run, and…
• ▶ 2:14:14 Ben Gilbert That is a giant loss on Fantasia.
• ▶ 2:14:28 David Rosenthal One more note on Fantasia, though, uh, before we talk about the impact of the U.S. entering the war, do you know what ultimately ended up happening with Fantasia?
• ▶ 2:14:45 David Rosenthal So yeah, the initial release of Fantasia, as you said, was a total flop.
• ▶ 2:14:58 David Rosenthal I mean, I remember when I was growing up as a kid, my parents loved Fantasia.
• ▶ 2:15:01 Ben Gilbert Yeah, I actually thought Fantasia was a modern movie.
• ▶ 2:15:11 David Rosenthal So Fantasia is
• ▶ 2:15:12 David Rosenthal If you look today at the list of inflation-adjusted top films in history by box office gross inflation-adjusted, Fantasia is the 24th highest grossing film in Hollywood history.
• ▶ 2:15:40 David Rosenthal Go watch Fantasia if you've never seen it.
• ▶ 2:17:49 Ben Gilbert You have these huge failures in Pinocchio, Fantasia, and also Bambi.
• ▶ 3:41:03 David Rosenthal Bet big on investing in production ahead of revenues was 1940 with the move to Burbank and having Pinocchio and Fantasia and Bambi in production all at once.