In the fall of 1938, Walter Disney convened music critics and story directors for three weeks to select the songs for "Fantasia", including "Moonlight" that was not quoted in the film
. To create Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," Walt Disney bought a group of lizards and a small crocodile, so that the artist could study their movements in response to the opinions of experts in paleontology. The movements of the dinosaurs are designed to imitate the movements directed by Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky
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The film’s production team deliberately studied Greek and Slavic mythology for the film, using animals and ballet dancers as the basis for cartoon characters, and invited the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra to record music
. In order to better play the sensory effects of the sound, Leopold Stokowski adjusts the volume and effect of the left and right channels of the recording to achieve the "stereo" effect of the left and right loops
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