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Walt Disney's Fantasia, the classic 1940 James Algar & Samuel Armstrong Walt Disney animated animation cartoon musical fantasy ("Walt Disney's Technicolor Feature Triumph") featuring Mickey Mouse and other cartoon characters created specifically for this feature movie, set to the music of classical composers including Leopold Stokowski, and Beethoven. Note that Fantasia had a very limited roadshow release which took place in several theaters with special audio equipment installed for the "Fantasound" system. This release started in late 1940 and continued into 1941, and these theaters often used home-made displays for the film. Throughout 1941, RKO negotiated with Disney to make a much shorter version of the movie in mono which could be shown in theaters without the need for special equipment. Disney finally agreed, and let RKO create a heavily edited version (he refused to edit it himself) which was released in early January of 1942. Regular posters were printed with a 1941 NSS number (it's not uncommon for films that are released near the start of a year to have a NSS from the previous year), and that is when the film had its first general release. So almost ALL of the known "first release" posters are from the 1942 continuous first release (with 1941 NSS numbers). The only pre-1942 advertising that we have seen are window cards, 8x10 stills and heralds from the theaters with the special "Fantasound" equipment.
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Important Added Info: b>Note that when this movie was re-released in 1970, it was released to some theaters in "Technicolor" and some theaters "in Stereophonic Sound". A regular one-sheet measuring 27" x 41" was created that had the "Technicolor" tagline at the bottom and another one-sheet, one a heavy paper stock, measuring 28" x 41" was created with the "Now in Stereophonic Sound" tagline. There are also window cards with both taglines. This auction is for the window card that has the "Now in Stereophonic Sound" tagline. Also note that the poster art for this 1970 re-issue is called the psychedelic art, because it was during this re-release that hippies and druggies discovered this film was a "trip" when viewed under the influence!

Note that this window card was folded in half, and because it was folded perfectly in half, it can be sent in one of our standard size mailers. If it is purchased by itself (or solely with other posters that can be sent in standard size mailers), it will be sent that way. But if it is purchased with posters that need to be sent in oversized mailers, then we will of course send it that way.

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