Fun & Fancy Free (1947)

Directors:

Jack Kinney
Hamilton Luske

Writers:

Homer Brightman (story) &
Harry Reeves (story) ...

Release Date:

27 September 1947 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Music

Tagline:

It's Got That DISNEY MAGIC! (original print media ad - many caps)

Plot:

Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: "Bongo," about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and "Mickey and the Beanstalk," a take on the famous fairy tale.

Plot Keywords:

Bear | Circus | Jiminy Cricket | Cartoon Dog | Character Interacts With Narrator

Cast

Edgar Bergen	...	Himself
Dinah Shore	...	(voice)
Charlie McCarthy	...	Himself
Mortimer Snerd	...	Himself
Luana Patten	...	Herself
Walt Disney	...	Mickey Mouse (voice) (as Mickey Mouse)
Anita Gordon	...	Singing Harp (voice)
Cliff Edwards	...	Jiminy Cricket (voice)
Billy Gilbert	...	Willie the Giant (voice)
Clarence Nash	...	Donald Duck (voice)
The King's Men	...	Themselves (as The Kings Men)
The Dinning Sisters	...	Themselves
The Starlighters	...	Themselves

Runtime:

73 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:G (re-rating) (1970) | New Zealand:G | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Denmark:A (2003) | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #12068, General Audience)

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

This is the fifth of seven "package films" released by Disney in the 1940s due to wartime budgetary constraints. They were called "package films" because they were feature-length films containing two or more short films tied together by surrounding material. In this canon, Fun & Fancy Free (1947) was preceded by The Reluctant Dragon (1941) , Saludos Amigos (1942) , The Three Caballeros (1944) , and Make Mine Music (1946) and followed by Melody Time (1948) and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) .

Quotes:

Willie the Giant: Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum... I smell...
Charlie McCarthy: You're telling us.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Disneyland: This Is Your Life Donald Duck (#6.23)" (1960)

Soundtrack:

My Favorite Dream

Boring with lousy songs

Two shorts strung together with material involving Jiminy Cricket and Edgar Bergen and his dummies. The two stories are--"Bongo" about a circus bear escaping and his "comic" misadventures in the wilderness and "Mickey and the Beanstalk" with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy recreating "Jack and the Beanstalk". The animation is great (that's why this gets three stars) but the stories are trite, padded and downright boring! They're also full of songs so unmemorable, bland and sweet that you'll be thinking cutting off your ears! To make matters unendurable Edgar Bergen has got to be the world's worst ventriloquist! His lips are plainly moving when his dummies "talk". A sleep-inducing mess. VERY patient young kids might go for it.