Disney's Fantasia (Missing 1940 Deems Taylor Audio)

Fantasia was one of Walt Disney's most ambitious works. Made in 1940, it involved animation segments that were buitl around several famous classical works. The movie required very specific projectors to cater to the vivid color of the animation. The movie was also the very first film to ever be recorded  for surround sound. The specific demands for the film were so high that most conventional theaters at the time refused to screen it. So, Walt came up with a solution: show the film via roadshow tours rather than a wide release.

The original roadshow version was over 125 minutes long and contained a few differences from the commonly-seen 115 minute version. Classical enthusiast, teacher, and critic, Deems Taylor did the inter-song monoluges. In the roadshow version there were much longer and detailes. The monologues were cut in future releases of the film to make it more "accessible".

Then, in 2000, Disney decided the restore Fantasia to its original roadshow version. taylor's original extended audio tracks had deteriorated so greatly that it was virtually irretreivable. Corey Burton had to brought in to do the complete dub over again for consistency's sake. Tyalor's voice clips have never surfaced, though Disney has been putting painstaking effort to restore the film to its complete original version.

Another "missing" element of the film is an offensive scene of a black centaur serving a white centuar. The scene is widely available on YouTube, despite numerous claims that it's lost. Disney, understably, did not restore the scene and show no plans to put it into any future releases. Seeing as the scene is easily viewable on YouTube, the scene is not considered lost.