Historically, the film appeared after a decade of war in Vietnam, and after the disgraceful Watergate crisis and President Nixon""s resignation.BackgroundFantasia (1940), a Disney animated feature-length "concert" film milestone, is an experimental film integrating eight magnificent classical musical compositions with enchanting, exhilarating, and imaginative, artistically-choreographed animation.He is there to conduct the investigation of the car bombing in his jurisdiction.Appearing with a vast paunch and slovenly dressed in a massive gray raincoat and wide-brimmed hat, he is chomping on a cigar as he speaks.A million years of history are waiting for us in hat ice."Their efforts to uncover the saucer failed when the hermite bomb explosion caused fires ("It""s burning under he ice"), and the scientists were dismayed as they watched the craft self-destruct with secondary charges ("That last explosion was the engine") - and then disintegrate:"It""s all gone.