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Fun and Fancy Free | 
 enlarge | Studio: Disney
Category: Video
Buy New: $3.25
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 54707
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
UPC: 786936048032
EAN: 0786936048032
ASIN: B000F9XGPC
Publication Date: 1997
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Fun, Fancy Free and Fabulous! December 16, 2008
Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth)
After Walt Disney's 1940 masterpiece FANTASIA failed at the box office, it's surprising he ever again tried illustrating music with animation-- yet he did, gratefully.
Some of Disney's best and these days generally unknown 1940s animated features follow the format laid down in FANTASIA. Created in part from scraps left over when the majority of Walt's animators were involved in WWII, these musical montages are quite good.
The second of these creations, FUN AND FANCY FREE (1947) consists of remnants of what had originally bern planned as two separate feature films. Artists who contributed voiceovers here include:
Edgar Bergen - Himself, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd
Luana Patten - Herself
Cliff Edwards - Jiminy Cricket
Walt Disney/Jimmy MacDonald- Mickey Mouse
Clarence Nash - Donald Duck
Pinto Colvig - Goofy
Billy Gilbert - The Giant
Anita Gordon - Singing Harp
Dinah Shore - Singer/Narrator of Bongo
Based on a Sinclair Lewis short story, BONGO is about a bear cub that escapes from a circus for some adventures in the wild. While exploring a house, Jiminy Cricket plays a record that tells the story. The narrator is Dinah Shore.
MICKEY AND THE BEANSTALK has in it three of Disney's most popular cartoon characters. Happy Valley is experoencing a terrible drought. All that Mickey, Donald and Goofy have left to eat is a single loaf of bread, which they divide ever so carefully. Mickey trades their cow for a handful of magic beans after Donald nearly kills the creature for food. Donald angrily tosses the beans away and overnight they grow into a giant beanstalk. As in the original fairy tale, our heroes ascend the plant and encounter a giant (named Wille) and a singing golden harp he has stolen.
FUN AND FANCY FREE is also available on DVD.
Consisting of seven segments, MELODY TIME is the third and final music/animation feature released by Disney immediately after WWII. (VHS edition) (DVD edition)
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