The Carnival of the Animals

The Carnival of the Animals, Finale, written by Camille Saint-Saëns, is the fifth and shortest segment in the 2000 Disney animated film Fantasia 2000.

The music can also be heard in Epcot's Impressions de France film.

Synopsis

A flock of flamingos does about their business until they notice a slapstick member who enjoys playing with a yo-yo going about his own idea of fun. They immediately try to force him to engage in their "dull" routines. The member tries to escape, engaging in a mad chase that includes pecking, dashing, and kicking. Finally, one of the flamingos catches the yo-yo and throws it into a nearby tree. He is congratulated by the others, but then the slapstick member emerges with multiple yo-yos in several colors and swings them verbatim. A question in this segment's host sequence leads into its story, "What would happen if you gave a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?" as opposed to a duller and more realistic question, "What is man's relationship to nature?"

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