Clair de Lune

Clair de Lune was fully animated and scored when it was deleted from Fantasia in early 1940, a casualty of Fantasia's excessive length. In February 1942, inking, painting and technicolor photography were completed for Clair de Lune as a short subject, but it was not released. In 1946 it was edited , reshaped and re-scored as the popular music sequence Blue Bayou in Make Mine Music. Previous attempts to recreate Clair de Lune were frustrated by missing animation and Stokowski footage. A nitrate workprint of the original version located in 1992 has allowed Clair de Lune to be completely reconstructed as Walt Disney intended it to be seen.