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FANTASIA 2000 and WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY ON VIDEO: Interview with director and producer Don Hahn

For Fantasia 2000 , how have you positioned relative to the vision of Walt?

As you know, the original idea Fantasia was to make a sort of concert, so that whenever you go see, it could be different . 20 years or 30 years later, Fantasia had to make known pieces and other news. In reality, war and other factors have changed the situation and this idea could actually see the day in the early 90s. I think the essence of Fantasia 2000 is the same: consider music and try to imagine how to interpret visually. Sometimes the result is abstract (sometimes it is abstract without narration, without having to create a story), and sometimes the music suggests a concrete story. That's what makes me say that Fantasia 2000 is like the original, since we try to play it both ways we too. Nudes have created sequences of abstract-based color schemes, shapes and lights, and others who told stories.

What the late 90's was the right time for a new Fantasia ?

All this has come the rise of video. At that time, people began to buy in bulk VCRs and VHS Fantasia . This is where Roy Disney decided to reinvest profits of those sales to create a new Fantasia . Roy was really the spearhead of this project. The other important element is that Fantasia 2000 was among several animated films. Facilitators working on The Little Mermaid , Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin had breaks between films, and it is during these breaks they could work on the film. After a year on a feature film was like a breath of fresh air for them to spend two or three months on Fantasia 2000, before re-attacking on a new project along.

Another important video output this year is the documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty that you have achieved. How is it that Disney starts to read her story this way?

We wanted to do, in fact, I wanted to do, because it seems that the 1990s were a very special time for the quality of the films we've produced so as Roger Rabbit , Beauty and the Beast or Aladdin , but also by the fact that the Disney culture was changing. It was an era of technological innovations, a time when we brought in new talent like Howard Ashman. It was a real creative explosion in the studio that nurtured all these films. That's what I wanted to tell that story. It was not so The Company will desire a personal to me and the film's producer, Peter Schneider. We really wanted to preserve this history because if you do not learn from the past, you are condemned to repeat it. Certainly, great things have been made at that time, but also things less glorious, and I thought it was worthwhile to talk to not repeat the same mistakes.

How do you explain that the essence of the company founded by Walt has always been the department's most threatened?

It has even been threatened, said to be closing in the 90s, but even then, I do not think the threat was serious. That said, remember it's not just entertainment. It is also show business. The films that we produce is expensive and must therefore make money. That is why they must be good. For a while we have not been very profitable films. Films like The Black Cauldron were disappointments both artistically and financially. This is not because an institution has always existed it must necessarily continue. Roy Disney himself said in Waking Sleeping Beauty : "If you want to make sure that things remain as they always have been, then you should fill a museum." Roy has always been very positive. It was he who brought new talent to the studio, artists like Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, revitalize you. Every art form has its ups and downs, be it music, rock'n roll, impressionism, all forms. The animation is no exception. This is the subject of Waking Sleeping Beauty. This is a group of people who wanted to get things done. Not save an art form, but creating a new version and revived this art form, still exists today.

So much so that movies like The Princess and the Frog , especially Rapunzel are great success. In your opinion, are not we at the dawn of a new golden age of animation?

Absolutely. We live in a wonderful era for animation. And even if you look more broadly beyond Disney with Pixar, Dreamworks and Blue Sky, the excitement generated at this time. There is even a category for an Oscar for that now, with 15 or 16 animated films produced by age and talent around the world as Miyazaki and others. I think we should take the time to step back and put things in perspective to tell, but I really feel that this is a golden age that we live. The animation has never much reported, and never has been so successful it has only to look Toy Story 3 to be convinced!

After Fantasia 2000, there was another project, entitled Fantasia 2006 around the world music, with sequences as One by One, or The Little Matchgirl, but never emerged as such. Do you think that, given the boom in the animation that we live, we can consider a third opus in Fantasia?

There is no question yet. But what is interesting about Pixar is that they wanted to produce short films to reveal new talents, and that is exactly what Fantasia a series of short films. There are no plans to make a new Fantasia, but this remains a possibility. What's great in Fantasia is his artistic freedom. Take the Carnival of the Animals with his watercolors, these flamingos ... and this yoyo! You could not necessarily do it in a feature film, but it may well push the artistic limits in a short and make it entertaining. It's like a short film by Pixar. They take a lot of creative risks and remain irresistible. So who knows if there will be another Fantasia ? This I do know is that his spirit is still there!