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a brute named Tyrannosaurus Rex...

was probably the meanest killer

that ever roamed the earth.

The dinosaurs were lords of creation

for about 200 million years.

And then-- Well, we don't exactly

know what happened.

Some scientists think

that great droughts and earthquakes...

turned the whole world

into a gigantic dustbowl.

In any case, the dinosaurs

were wiped out.

That is where

our story ends.

Where it begins is at a time

infinitely far back...

when there was no life at all on earth,

nothing but clouds of steam

boiling seas...

and exploding volcanoes.

So now, imagine yourselves

out in space...

billions and billions of years ago...

looking down on this lonely,

tormented little planet...

spinning through an empty

sea of nothingness.

Before we get into the

second half of the program,

I'd like to introduce

somebody to you,

somebody who is very important

to "Fantasia."

He is very shy

and very retiring.

I just happened to run accross him

one day at the Disney Studios.

But when I did,

I suddenly realized that he was...

not only an indispensable member of the organization,

but a screen personality whose

possibilities nobody had ever noticed.

So I'm very happy to have this

opportunity to introduce to you

the Soundtrack.

All right, come on.

That's all right.

Don't be timid.

Atta Soundtrack.

Watching him, I discovered

that every beautiful sound

also created an equally

beautiful picture.

Now look.

Will the Soundtrack

kindly produces a sound?

Go on! Don't be nervous.

Go ahead! Any sound.

Well, that isn't quite

what I had in mind.

Suppose we hear and see the harp.

Now one of the strings.

Say, the violin.

Now one of the woodwinds. A flute.

Very pretty.

Now, let's have a brass

instrument, the trumpet.

All right.

Now, how about a low instrument,

the bassoon.

Go on. Go on!

Drop the other shoe, will you

To finish, suppose we see

some of the percussion instruments,

beginning with the base drum.

Thanks a lot, old man.

The symphony that Beethoven called "The Pastoral"

his sixth, is one of the few pieces of music...

he ever wrote that tells

something like a definite story.

He was a great nature lover,

and in this symphony

he paints a musical picture...

of a day in the country.

Of course, the country

that Beethoven described...

was the countryside

with which he was familiar.

But his music covers a

much wider field than that,

and so Walt Disney has given

the "Pastoral Symphony"

a mythological setting.

and that settings is of Mount Olympus,

the abode of the gods.

And here, first of all, we meet o group of fabulous creatures...

of the field and forest--

unicorns, fawns,

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