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Engel, head of the experimental animation department at Cal Arts, reveals that he conceived the choreography and storyboard for the Chinese and Russian Dance sequences (the mushrooms) in Disney's Fantasia but received no screen credit due to internal studio politics. He traces his career from Disney (*Fantasia*, Bambi) to co-founding the original UPA group that created Mr. Magoo and Gerald McBoing Boing, and later producing Alvin and the Chipmunks at his own Format Films studio. He argues that today's animation talent is technically superior to the golden age but is hampered by cost-cutting and overseas outsourcing.