The sparkling ball that drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve lies in pieces on the floor; Mr. Mazzella is constructing the millennial version, which will be made of Waterford crystal.

The millennial version of Disney's 1940 groundbreaking fusion of animation and classical music includes seven new segments and keeps one from the original film (the wonderful "Sorcerer's Apprentice," starring Mickey Mouse).

Shown in Imax theaters, the millennial version of Walt Disney's "Fantasia" sends a pagan goddess in the form of a shape-shifting purple comet dipping and swooping around a world consisting of forests, oceans and mountains.

This millennial version is a more mellowed rendition of the former firebrand.

"Fantasia/2000" connects the millennial version to the 60-year-old film by including one of its original segments, the justly celebrated "Sorcerer's Apprentice," in which Mickey Mouse is a magician's work-weary assistant who dons his boss's cone-shaped hat while he is out and plays at being sorcerer.