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THE TALKING PICTURE
Through a fortuitous chain of circumstances the dictator is arrested in place of his double, and the little barber takes his place at the head of the army that is occupying a defenseless neighboring republic. Invited to address his victorious troops, the supposed Hynkel makes an impassioned plea for peace and tolerance. This, one of the closing scenes, shows Hynkel (Chaplin) and Schultz, his friend (Reginald Gardiner), about to mount the reviewing stand. Many critics objected to the final speech in the picture on the ground that it took Chaplin out of character and was not in key with what had gone before.
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If Chaplin talked, Disney gave a concert. In Fantasia, released in the late fall of 1940, he disclosed something new in the line of musical entertainment. Fantasia offered a program of descriptive music, recorded by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold
Stokowski, with animated program notes to take the place of the usual printed ones. The animation, needless to say, was Disney's part of the proceedings, and Disney at his best. Deems Taylor, appearing on the screen at intervals, acted as general apologist and between-numbers commentator. The film opened with a Bach toccata and fugue, illustrated by abstract moving forms. In Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, our old pal, Mickey Mouse, was the hero. He was the only traditional Disney character in Fantasia.
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Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, a Disney masterpiece, was one of the most exquisite episodes in the series, as this shot from "The Waltz of the Flowers" indicates. A unique feature of Fantasia was the reproduction of the music. Recorded on three sound tracks, it was produced through a battery of sixty loudspeakers placed throughout the theater, giving the music a quality of astonishing fidelity.