Although Dale and Ken Bullock should be a happily married couple, their marriage is on the verge of a break-up, because Dale refuses to give up her well-paying job in order to devote more time to Ken and their two children Jimmy, age 9, and Tommy, age 6. They sue for divorce and the Judge rules that the children be placed in the custody of their father. Dale realizes what she has lost but she is too proud to say anything to Ken, whom she still loves. Ken, shopping for the perfect stay-at-home wife to take care of his children, falls for the charms of his secretary, Millie Lynch. Not quite.
Broadway star, Sheila Page, shoots Barney, her murderous husband on New Year's Eve. She flees her apartment and goes to her producer, John Friday. When she arrives, it is New Year's day, a year earlier. She has been given the chance to live life over and correct the errors of the past only to find that the end will be the same although the path will be different.
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
8곡의 클래식 음악에 각각 다른 성격의 애니메이션을 결합한 것으로, 총 10명이 연출을 맡고 25명이 스토리 작업에 투입된 작품이다. 판타지아에는 바흐의 토카타와 푸가, 베토벤의 전원 교향곡, 차이콥스키의 호두까기 인형, 스트라빈스키의 봄의 제전, 뒤카의 마법사의 제자, 폰키엘리의 시간의 춤, 무소륵스키의 민둥산의 하룻밤, 슈베르트의 아베 마리아가 환상적인 영상과 함께 실려 있다. 연주를 담당한 악단은 세계 정상급 교향악단인 필라델피아 오케스트라이고, 지휘는 영화 오케스트라의 소녀에도 출연한 적이 있는 세계적인 지휘자 레오폴드 스토코프스키가 맡았다.
