The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) of the storyline of the film, the sorcerer's final anger with his apprentice which appears in "Fantasia" does not appear in Goethe's source poem, "Der Zauberlehrling". The popularity of the musical piece in "Fantasia" led to it being used again in "Fantasia 2000". A decade prior to "Fantasia", in 1930 William Cameron Menzies directed and Joseph M. Schenck produced a series of four short films of classical music. One of the four, based on the Dukas music, was titled "The Wizard's Apprentice"; this short film has been released on DVD and shown on Classic Arts Showcase. In 1931, the Dukas
Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writer Darrell Schweitzer featuring his dark fantasy protagonist, the child sorcerer Sekenre, a sequel to the novel "The Mask of the Sorcerer" (1995). The book was illustrated by Stephen Fabian. It was first published as a trade paperback by Wildside Press in 2004. The collection consists of twelve stories of Sekenre, originally published from 1994-2004 in a number of fantasy fiction magazines. The stories relate various episodes in the life of the immortal sorcerer Sekenre, who stopped aging physically