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Leopold Stokowski on the cover of Time Magazine. Walt Disney met Stokowski by chance in a Los Angeles restaurant in 1938. Disney was just starting to work on the Sorcerors Apprentice, a 9 minute short film. Stokowski offered to conduct the music for free and assembled a 100 piece orchestra for the project. Stokowski and Disney became a creative team that found it difficult to stop there and Disney said later that they had soon spent more than 400,000 dollars on music and were commited to the growing artistry of Fantasia.