![]() ![]() I think he really understood the rightness of the science, but he was a showman, you know, kind of mystical on that." ![]() so he was a little bit torn between that and wanting to go with science. threatened to make trouble for 'Fantasia' if Walt connected evolution with human beings." He went on to say, however, that his boss "had a fundamentalist background. According to the art director of the segment, John Hubley, "fundamentalists. The original plan was to include the rise of mammals and eventually humans and the discovery of fire. The manner of their extinction is considered inaccurate by 21st century standards, and it is rather lingering besides, and somewhat moving. A significant portion of the segment deals with the dinosaurs, depicted as they were in the mid-20th century as slow, lumbering creatures with dragging tails. We watch the lifeless Earth develop cellular life forms and eventually plants and animals. Taylor invites the listener to imagine himself as observers in outer space "looking down on this lonely, tormented little planet", with its volcanoes and steam clouds. The 'Rite of Spring' sequence was used in American science classes for many years, and it inspired Stephen Jay Gould to become a paleontologist. Science, not art, wrote the scenario of this picture." And indeed, Walt Disney consulted with astronomer Edwin Hubble (for whom the telescope is named), biologist Julian Huxley, along with paleontologists at both the American Museum of Natural History and Caltech. In 'Fantasia', Deems Taylor describes the sequence as a "coldly accurate reproduction of what Science thinks first went on during the few billion years of this planet's existence. Answer: the natural history of the Earth (including dinosaurs) ![]()
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