Disney Period, Fantasia and Bambi (1938-1941)
A year later, he was asked by Disney Studios to work on the now classic film Fantasia. At the time, Disney Studios was doing something innovative, integrating "low" art (animation) and "high" art (classical music), and the studio needed someone who was familiar with the timing of dance. Because of his drawing talent and his growing knowledge of dance, Engel was assigned to storyboard the Russian sprites and Chinese mushrooms dance sequences of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite.
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