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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. All of the recordings used in the film were courtesy of
Deutsche Grammophon.
Live action sequences The uncut film also contains comic live action sequences, in black and white blended with occasional color animations, that parody the
Deems Taylor introductions from
Fantasia. "The Presenter" (
Maurizio Micheli) starts off with an exaggerated version of Taylor's opening introduction in
Fantasia ( "A new and original film" .. "you will see the music and hear the drawings" .. "a fantasia") only to be interrupted by a phone call from California informing him that the film had already been done. He angrily objects, dismissing the caller as an ill-mannered liar, explaining to the audience that the caller claims that someone ("Prisney", "Grisney", "some American") had done this years before, then telling the caller to at least watch the film, and hangs up. Next the Presenter introduces "The Orchestra Master" (Néstor Garay) and an orchestra made up of little old ladies as the Orchestra Master roughly rounds them up from a cattle pen into a large trailer for transport to the theater. As the trailer heads out to the theater the Presenter exults, "Pisney has already done this?". Lastly before the first animated music segment (''Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune''), the Presenter introduces "The Animator" (
Maurizio Nichetti). ==Cast==