The film consists of eight animated videos set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski. There are no words because The music portrays the story behind each animation.  1. J. S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Imagine you're sitting in a concert hall listening to this music. At first, you are more or less conscious of the orchestra. So our picture opens with a series of impressions of the conductor and the players. Then the music begins to suggest other things to your imagination. They might be, oh, just masses of color, or they may be cloud forms or great landscapes or vague shadows or geometrical objects floating in space.  2. Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite the familiar piece is an animated dance sequence celebrating nature through the changing seasons (from summer to winter), with six movements. The series of ballets are led by fairies, mushrooms in Chinese costumes, flowers and flower petals, underwater fan-tail fish, and thistles:
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