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Anubis16 wrote: Arctucrus wrote: Zach ho 23 wrote: http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/09/28/once-upon-time-fantasia-sorcerers-hat-season4/ I think this is the point where I give up on the show, 'cuz that's just dumb. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a fairy tale, it's a poem where the cartoon got it's inspiration from Actually, Disney drew inspiration for the cartoon from the Dukas Symphonic work "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". The whole point of Disney's "Fantasia" was a project to take classic MUSIC, and use that as inspiration for the animated stories. Thus, you have the fantastic Pegasi set to Beethoven's 6th Symphony (Pastorale), Chernabog and the other demons set to Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain". And Mickey as the apprentice set to Dukas' "The Sorcerer's apprentice". They probably also reviewed the source poem, as the animated feature is actually a reasonable telling of the original tale (with the exception of using the Hat as a Plot device).

So, the Poem was the inspiration for the Music, and the Music was the inspiration for Disney (at least in this case).