With each failure, the satyr gets smaller and smaller, until he roams across a vast countryside which turns out to be a woman's body. Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune: an elderly satyr repeatedly attempts to cosmetically recapture his youth and virility, but all in vain.While 'allegro ma non troppo' bears a positive connotation (as in 'happy, just not so much'), 'non troppo allegro' sounds more negative (as in 'not really that happy'). Without the 'ma', the Italian sentence should be rewritten as 'non troppo allegro', which literally means 'not so happy', and in musical terms it could be interpreted as 'not too fast'. In music, an instruction of ' allegro ma non troppo' means to play 'fast, but not overly so'. Disney veteran Ward Kimball would recommend the Boléro segment to his animation students, and the Walt Disney Family Museum held an exhibit on Bruno Bozzetto featuring his work on the film. While Allegro Non Troppo spoofs its source, The Walt Disney Company has been positively receptive towards the film.

The first includes live action sequences in between the classical pieces the second version of the film omits these, replacing them with animated Plasticine letters spelling out the title of the next piece of music. Some of these sections mix animation and live action. Īt the beginning, in between the animation, and at the end, there are black and white live-action sequences, displaying the fictional animator, orchestra, conductor and filmmaker, with many humorous scenes about the fictional production of the film.

The classical pieces are set to color animation, ranging from comedy to deep tragedy. Featuring six pieces of classical music, the film is a parody of Walt Disney's 1940 feature film, Fantasia, two of its segments being derived from the earlier film. Allegro non troppo is a 1976 Italian animated film directed by Bruno Bozzetto.

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