"Screen poetry" perhaps best describes Walt Disney's "Fantasia." Other motion pictures have had beautiful and charming scenes and have used color to enhance pictorial effects, but this latest production from the workshop which brought forth "Snow White" participates in the essence of beauty, both in sight and sound. In other words, it bears a closer relationship to poetry than anything hitherto presented. The box office value of "screen poetry" is an unknown quantity. There is a charm in many of the images created by the vivid imaginations of Mr. Disney and his fellow workers which is without equal in previous motion pictures. Whether a visual representation of music adds or detracts from the enjoyment of the music itself is a point which will probably be in dispute for some time. […]
