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""When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you...

Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true."

~ Frances Langford (February 24, 1940)



In 1940, Walt Disney's Fantasia was the first film to be released in a multichannel format called Fantasound. Some important innovations are as follows:

* the click track
* dispersion-aligned loudspeaker system with skewed-horn
* the pan-pot
* control-track level-expansion
* overdubbing of orchestral parts
* simultaneous multitrack recording
* and the development of a multichannel surround system.

By the time Fantasia opened, Disney had spent a fortune building his dream studio, but World War II shut down his foreign market and a significant portion of his revenues. The banks closed off his line of credit in 1940, and he was forced to offer stock to the public for the first time. Fantasia fared badly on its initial release, it was a complete failure at the box office.