Accordingly, the composition was used in this context in a New York segment for the 1999 Walt Disney Pictures animated film "Fantasia 2000", in which the piece is used as the lyrical framing for a stylized animation set drawn in the style of famed illustrator Al Hirschfeld. It was also used in the opening sequence of Woody Allen's 1979 film "Manhattan". The film serves as "a cinematic love letter to the city, which set its opening montage of quintessential New York scenes to Gershwin's famed jazz concerto."