Fun and Fancy Free (1947)

Directed by

William Morgan, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Hamilton Luske

Genre

fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy, children's film, live-action/animated film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 13m

Rated

G

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 532 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Jiminy Cricket finds a young girl feeling sorry for herself. To cheer her up, he tells two stories. One is about a circus bear who escapes into the wild. The other is about Mickey Mouse and his friends climbing a giant beanstalk.

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What happens

Fun and Fancy Free, formerly known as Fun & Fancy Free, is a 1947 American animated musical fantasy anthology film produced by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen and released on September 27, 1947, by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is a compilation of two stories: Bongo, narrated by Dinah Shore and loosely based on the short story "Little Bear Bongo" by Sinclair Lewis; and Mickey and the Beanstalk, narrated by Edgar Bergen and based on the "Jack and the Beanstalk" fairy tale. Though the film is primarily animated, it also uses live-action segments starring Bergen to join its two stories. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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