Fun and Fancy Free

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Fun and Fancy Free (1947)

G 09/27/1947 (US) Animation, Music 1h 13m

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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.

Jack Kinney

Director
Hamilton Luske

Director
Bill Roberts

Director
William Morgan

Director
Eldon Dedini

Story
Harry Reeves

Story
Lance Nolley

Story
Homer Brightman

Story
Ted Sears

Story
Tom Oreb

Story
Frank Tashlin

Writer

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Edgar Bergen

Himself / Charlie McCarthy / Mortimer Snerd
Dinah Shore

Narrator (voice)
Luana Patten

Herself
Walt Disney

Mickey Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Anita Gordon

Singing Harp (voice)
Cliff Edwards

Jiminy Cricket (voice)
Clarence Nash

Donald Duck / Cat (voice)
Pinto Colvig

Goofy (voice) (uncredited)
James MacDonald

Lumpjaw (voice) (uncredited)
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After World War 2 the Disney studio had difficulty getting back to where they were prior to the war's disruptive affects on the studio's operations. Having said that, they produced what they called "Package Features", which contained multiple stories rather than just one feature, as was the case with "Snow White", "Pinocchio", and "Fantasia", prior to the war.

This one, "Fun And Fancy Free", uses 2 story lines that were in development prior to the American declaration of War, in December of 1941. "Mickey & the Beanstalk", pictured on the cover, plus "Bongo" the 'Circus Bear'. 2 films that wer... read the rest.

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