Project Phase: In Production
Segments
Disney is currently working on a short. possibly to be in Fantasia 2006,
which is based upon the tale "La petite fille aux allumettes" (which means
"The matches'little girl"). What what has been seen the story is very sad
due to the story being told but is quite beautiful and very poetic.
Anotehr segment in Fantasia 2006 uses the music by Youssou
N'Dour.
The following is from
Feature Animation Forum on March 23, 2001
"Roy Disney, during a chat session during the release
of Fanatsia 2000, said that they were currently working on
a segment set to music that was originally written for the
musical version of "the Lion King" The segment has no lyrics
but it could contain some singing by lebo m, or something similar
to that. The story revolves around a group of black children
in an african township. They find a kite and start to play
with it. It is suggested that they start daydreaming about
it too. Most likely this is the completed sequence.
Notes
August 18, 2002 from animated-movies.com
"Fantastia 2006 is being referred to as The Music Project. One of the
segment features The Little Mermaid's Sebastian the crab which is
making music with other crabs and seasnails. The style of The Little
Match Girl is typical Disney... Mike Gabriel (The Rescuers Down Under,
Pocahontas) will direct the segment about the U.S.A."
August 12, 2002 from animated-movies.com
"Randy Haycock finished work on the Little Match Girl sequence for the
next Fantasia installment before he started work with John Ripa on
Jim Hawkins for Treasure Planet."
July 29, 2002
Feature Animation Forum states that the segment involving African kids
playing with kites will be called One by One and is directed by Pixote
Hunt, an African-American artist who already helmed the Symphony No. 5
segment in Fantasia 2000.
One by One segment will be "the first in the next Fantasia. Most of the
little kids are based on people at Disney or who worked on the segment.
For example there is a character named Lebo with big round glasses this
is taken from Lebo M, the man who wrote the music. Also Pixote Hunt
and Bruse Smith are in there two if you can find them. If you want to
know what they look like watch The Proud Family on Disney Channel,
because Bruse Smith designed the characters on that show and they will
give you an idea of what the style he does. And one last thing if you
want to hear the song One by One it is on The Lion King on Broadway
soundtack. It isn't exactly the same because they changed it a bit for
Fantasia 3."
July 22, 2002
James Levine reportedly conducted in Spring 2000 a modern piece of African
music written by Youssou N'Dour for Fantasia 2006.
The segment would involve a group of children in a small township in Africa,
who watch a feather float through the air. Seeing this, the children get an
idea and make kites to fly in the air.
Animeland #83 july-august 2002
In the last issue of the french magazine "Animeland" dedicated to animation
and manga, Roy Disney reveals that the next Fantasia, (referred to by the
studio as Fantasia 2006...a temporary title for now.) is under developement.
The concept is that the music is wonderful all around the world, it will
regroup the musics from many countries from Africa to Argentina passing
by Australia. Roy informs us that one segment inspired by Hans Christian
Andersen's famous and sad tale "The Little Match Girl" is already finished.
He also says that no release date is planned at this time.
The following is from
Feature Animation Forum on March 22, 2001
"Fantasia 2006 it is a go. One sequence is already completed
and another one in the early stages of production, directed
by Glen Keane. The music will be from different parts of the
world."
