# A World Is Born

An excerpt from the 1940 motion picture Fantasia, with narration

An interpretation of Stravinsky's Rite of spring. Depicts the first two billion years of the earth's existence, showing its early convulsions and upheavals and the first prehistoric monsters who inhabited it

Music played by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1955
- Runtime: 19 min
- By: Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Vesna svi͡ashchennai͡a, Walt Disney Productions, Walt Disney Educational Media Company
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/aworldisborn)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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