Musical score conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, except as noted.
| Segment |
Personnel |
| Live-action scenes |
- Master of Ceremonies and narrator: Deems Taylor
- Cinematography: James Wong Howe
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| Toccata and Fugue in D Minor |
- Musical score: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Director: Samuel Armstrong
- Story development: Lee Blair, Elmer Plummer, and Phil Dike
- Art director: Robert Cormack
- Background painting: Joe Stahley, John Hench, and Nino Carbe
- Visual development: Oskar Fischinger
- Animation: Cy Young, Art Palmer, Daniel MacManus, George Rowley, Edwin Aardal, Joshua Meador, and Cornett Wood
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| Nutcracker Suite |
- Musical score: The Nutcracker Op. 71a by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (excerpts)
- Director: Samuel Armstrong
- Story development: Sylvia Moberly-Holland, Norman Wright, Albert Heath, Bianca Majolie and Graham Heid
- Character designs: John Walbridge, Elmer Plummer and Ethel Kulsar
- Art direction: Robert Cormack, Al Zinnen, Curtiss D. Perkins, Arthur Byram and Bruce Bushman
- Background painting: John Hench, Ethel Kulsar and Nino Carbe
- Animation: Art Babbitt, Les Clark, Don Lusk, Cy Young and Robert Stokes
- Choreography: Jules Engel
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| The Sorcerer's Apprentice |
- Musical score: The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas
- Performed by an orchestra of Los Angeles musicians, conducted by Stokowski.
- Director: James Algar
- Story development: Perce Pearce and Carl Fallberg
- Art direction: Tom Codrick, Charles Phillipi and Zack Schwartz
- Background painting: Claude Coats, Stan Spohn, Albert Dempster and Eric Hansen
- Animation supervisors: Fred Moore and Vladimir Tytla
- Animation: Les Clark, Riley Thompson, Marvin Woodward, Preston Blair
Edward Love, Ugo D'Orsi, George Rowley and Cornett Wood
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| The Rite of Spring |
- Musical score: The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky (abridged)
- Directors: Bill Roberts and Paul Satterfield
- Story development and research: William Martin, Leo Thiele, Robert Sterner and John Fraser McLeish
- Art direction: McLaren Stewart, Dick Kelsey and John Hubley
- Background painting: Ed Starr, Brice Mack and Edward Levitt
- Animation supervision: Wolfgang Reitherman and Joshua Meador
- Animation: Philip Duncan, John McManus, Paul Busch, Art Palmer, Don Tobin, Edwin Aardal and Paul B. Kossoff
- Special camera effects: Gail Papineau and Leonard Pickley
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| Intermission/Meet the Soundtrack |
- Narrator: Deems Taylor
- Directors: Ben Sharpsteen and David D. Hand
- Animation: Joshua Meador, Art Palmer, Harry Hamsell and George Rowley
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| The Pastoral Symphony |
- Musical score: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastorale" by Ludwig van Beethoven (abridged)
- Directors: Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley and Ford Beebe
- Story development: Otto Englander, Webb Smith, Erdman Penner, Joseph Sabo, Bill Peet and George Stallings
- Character designs: James Bodrero, John P. Miller Lorna S. Soderstrom
- Art direction: Hugh Hennesy, Kenneth Anderson, J. Gordon Legg, Herbert Ryman, Yale Gracey, and Lance Nolley
- Background painting: Claude Coats, Ray Huffine, W. Richard Anthony, Arthur Riley, Gerald Nevius and Roy Forkum
- Animation supervision: Fred Moore, Ward Kimball, Eric Larson, Art Babbitt, Oliver M. Johnston, Jr. and Don Towsley
- Animation: Berny Wolf, Jack Campbell, Jack Bradbury, James Moore, Milt Neil, Bill Justice, John Elliotte
Walt Kelly, Don Lusk, Lynn Karp, Murray McClellan, Robert W. Youngquist and Harry Hamsel
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| Dance of the Hours |
- Musical score: Dance of the Hours from the opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli
- Directors: T. Hee and Norm Ferguson
- Character designs: Martin Provensen, James Bodrero, Duke Russell and Earl Hurd
- Art direction: Kendall O'Connor, Harold Doughty and Ernest Nordli
- Background painting: Albert Dempster and Charles Conner
- Animation supervision: Norm Ferguson
- Animation: John Lounsbery, Howard Swift, Preston Blair, Hugh Fraser, Harvey Toombs, Norman Tate
Hicks Lokey, Art Elliott, Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson and Franklin Grundeen
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| Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria |
- Musical scores: Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky and Ave Maria, Op. 52 No. 6 by Franz Schubert
- Director: Wilfred Jackson
- Story development: Campbell Grant, Arthur Heinemann, and Phil Dike
- Art direction: Kay Nielsen, Terrell Stapp, Charles Payzant and Thor Putnam
- Background painting: Merle Cox, Ray Lockrem, Robert Storms, and W. Richard Anthony
- Special English lyrics for Ave Maria: Rachel Field
- Choral director: Charles Henderson
- Soprano solo: Julietta Novis
- Animation supervision: Vladimir Tytla
- Animation: John McManus, William N. Shull, Robert W. Carlson, Jr., Lester Novros, and Don Patterson
- Special animation effects: Joshua Meador, Miles E. Pike, John F. Reed, and Daniel MacManus
- Special camera effects: Gail Papineau and Leonard Pickley
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