Many people will recognize him from Disney's film Fantasia in which he conducts the orchestra and is seen shaking hands with Mickey Mouse.
(In the film Fantasia, commentator Deems Taylor observes that he "really detested" the score.)
The Walt Disney Company ordered eight of the devices for use in the production of its animated film Fantasia.
In 1998 the music soundtrack recording for the film Fantasia 2000 was filmed in the theater at Medinah Temple's auditorium.
The film was based on the animated film Fantasia (1940), which was inspired by a poem by Goethe.
An edited version was used to accompany "flying", frolicking humpback whales in the film Fantasia 2000.
Vernon also manufactured art ware based on the film Fantasia.
The show's signature water projection screens are activated, onto which animation from the Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence from the film Fantasia.
Music's power for pictorial suggestion may be said to have culminated in Walt Disney's 1940 film Fantasia.
Stevens began as an In-Betweener on the 1940 film Fantasia.