The family join a larger pod of whales, who fly and frolic through the clouds to emerge into outer space. The "Deluxe Edition" package included the film, a "making of" feature, a commemorative lithograph, a 16-page booklet, a two-disc soundtrack of the Stokowski score and a certificate of authenticity signed by Roy E. As of now, the film has yet to have a wide Blu-ray/DVD re-release, but on April 20, 2021, the 2010 2-Movie Collection edition was repackaged with Celebrating Mickey as a Disney Movie Club Exclusive, known as "The Best of Mickey", except its menus are different.

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One review of the film written in this manner, by Dorothy Thompson for The New York Herald Tribune on November 25, 1940, was especially harsh.In his December 1999 review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert gave the film a rating of three stars out of four. Feeling his designs were too abstract for a mass audience, Fishinger left the studio in frustration, before the segment was completed, in October 1939. and The Firebird he thought lacked the "abstract grace" from Toccata and Fugue from the original, and Pines of Rome was "even less successful" due to the computer imagery which affected its quality. Hunt divided the segment into 31 mini-scenes, noting down points in which he would employ vivid color when the music was bright and fluid, and then switch to darker hues when the music felt darker and denser.

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The pair further thought of presenting the film with an on-screen host to introduce each number in the program.Film critic Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that the film "often has the feel of a giant corporate promotion whose stars are there simply to hawk the company's wares" while noting the film "is not especially innovative in its look or subject matter. As production costs grew higher and the project getting pushed back, he decided to make a feature-length film with other segments set to classical pieces.