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Jack Sparrow
KJ's Leading Idiot
Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:15 pm Posts: 36949
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 Fun and Fancy Free
 Quote: Fun and Fancy Free is a 1947 American animated musical fantasy package film produced by Walt Disney and released on September 27, 1947 by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the ninth Disney animated feature film and the fourth of the package films the studio produced in the 1940s in order to save money during World War II. The Disney package films of the late 1940s helped finance Cinderella (1950), and subsequent others, such as Alice in Wonderland (1951), and Peter Pan (1953).
The film is a compilation of two stories, the first of which, Bongo, is hosted by Jiminy Cricket and narrated by Dinah Shore. Based on the tale Little Bear Bongo by Sinclair Lewis, Bongo tells the story of a circus bear cub named Bongo who longs for freedom from captivity. Bongo escapes the circus and eventually forms a romantic relationship with a female bear cub named Lulubelle in the wild, realizing that he must prove himself in order to earn Lulubelle as his mate. The second story, Mickey and the Beanstalk, is narrated by Edgar Bergen and is a retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk featuring Mickey, Donald, and Goofy as three peasants who discover the temperamental Willie the Giant's castle in the sky through the use of some magic beans. They must battle the greedy but lovable giant in order to restore peace to their valley. Though the film is primarily animated, it also uses live-action segments to join its two stories together. Mickey and the Beanstalk was the last time Walt Disney voiced Mickey Mouse, because he was too busy on other projects to continue voicing the famous character. Disney replaced himself with sound effects artist Jimmy MacDonald.
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Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:56 pm |
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 25395 Location: Classified
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 Re: Fun and Fancy Free
Bongo the Bear is easily my favorite thing Disney did during the Dark Ages. Jack and the Beanstalk is fine too. Wish they had just split this and Ichabod instead of all the dancing in South America.
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Tue Aug 25, 2020 7:53 pm |
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zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 21571 Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
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 Re: Fun and Fancy Free
Flava'd vs The World wrote: Bongo the Bear is easily my favorite thing Disney did during the Dark Ages. Jack and the Beanstalk is fine too. Wish they had just split this and Ichabod instead of all the dancing in South America. The South America movies were green lit as an olive branch because America feared that South America would ally with the Nazis. They’re barely even intended as movies.
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Tue Aug 25, 2020 10:44 pm |
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zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 21571 Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
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 Re: Fun and Fancy Free
God this movie would be so much better without the creepy live action parts. The Mickey and the Beanstalk half could have been stronger, but it was decent enough. The Bongo half seemed childish as it began but became cleverer as it went on.
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