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Alligators and Crocodiles in Movies   Fantasia (1940)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is the classic Walt Disney animated film consisting of eight segments based on eight pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, back when classical conductors were rock stars. The seventh segment is a comic ballet version of the ballet "Dance of the Hours" from the opera La Giaconda by Ponchielli. It features ballet-dancing ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators. At first, the other dancers are understandably afraid of the predatory alligators. The main alligator is named Ben Ali Gator. He performs a comic dance with the prima ballerina named Hyacinth Hippo, who is a bit larger than the typical ballerina. You can watch the whole dancing hippo and gator scene on YouTube, or you can watch the entire movie on TheSilverScream.com