{"id":1117,"date":"2008-01-02T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/night-on-bald-mountain-the-1933-version\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T21:43:00","slug":"night-on-bald-mountain-the-1933-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/night-on-bald-mountain-the-1933-version.html","title":{"rendered":"Night on Bald Mountain &#8212; the 1933 version"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family:georgia\">As a lifelong fan of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/must-films-always-tell-stories.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fantasia<\/a><\/i> (1940), I was intrigued to learn today that the climactic \u2018Night on Bald Mountain\u2019 sequence in that film did not mark the first time that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modest_Mussorgsky\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Modest Mussorgsky<\/a>\u2018s rousing bit of music had been adapted by animators. There is at least one earlier version, produced in 1933 by Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker and released under the title <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0024721\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Une nuit sur le mont chauve<\/a><\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W7fGbZgth2s\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W7fGbZgth2s<\/a><br>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W7fGbZgth2s\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> if the video file above doesn\u2019t play properly.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerve.com\/CS\/blogs\/screengrab\/archive\/2008\/01\/02\/youtube-cabinet-of-curiosities-night-on-bald-mountain-1933.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hat tip<\/a> to Paul Clark at The Screengrab, who also has some interesting information on how this cartoon and others like it were made.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a lifelong fan of Fantasia (1940), I was intrigued to learn today that the climactic \u2018Night on Bald Mountain\u2019 sequence in that film did not mark the first time that Modest Mussorgsky\u2018s rousing bit of music had been adapted by animators. 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