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Fun and Fancy Free
Directed by	Jack Kinney (animation) Bill Roberts (animation) Hamilton Luske (animation) William Morgan (live-action)
Produced by	Walt Disney
Written by	Homer Brightman Eldon Dedini Lance Nolley Tom Oreb Harry Reeves Ted Sears Sinclair Lewis (original author of "Bongo")
Starring	Cliff Edwards Edgar Bergen Luana Patten Walt Disney Clarence Nash Pinto Colvig Billy Gilbert Anita Gordon Dinah Shore
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Release date(s)	September 27, 1947
Running time	73 min.
Language	English
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Fun and Fancy Free (first released on September 27, 1947) is a feature film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It was one of the "package films" (feature-length compilations of shorter segments) that the studio produced in the 1940s. It is the ninth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. As with the two segments in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, the featurettes were originally planned to be made as full-length features, but because of the studio's circumstances at the time, they ended up becoming a part of the package films instead.

This film features two stories:

• "Bongo," the story of a circus bear cub, who runs away from the circus to the wild and the adventures there that follow.
• "Mickey and the Beanstalk," a retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as peasants who discover temperamental Willie the Giant's castle in the sky through the use of some magic beans.

Jiminy Cricket of Pinocchio first appears inside a large house, exploring it and singing "I'm a Happy-Go-Lucky Fellow" (originally written for the 1940 classic), until he happens upon a record player and some records, and sets it up to play the story of "Bongo", as told by Dinah Shore.

In the second featurette, the story of "Mickey and the Beanstalk" is narrated by Edgar Bergen in live-action sequences, who, with the help of his ventriloquist's puppets Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, tells the tale to child actress Luana Patten at her birthday party.

Mickey, Donald and Goofy live in a place called "Happy Valley" which is plagued by a severe drought, and they have nothing to eat except one loaf of bread; in a memorable scene the bread is cut into paper-thin slices. After Donald attempts to kill their cow with an axe, Mickey trades in their beloved animal for magic beans. Donald throws the beans out the window in a fit of rage, and the beanstalk sprouts. Climbing the gigantic beanstalk they enter a magical kingdom of equal scope, and entering the castle, Mickey, Donald and Goofy help themselves to a sumptuous feast. This rouses the ire of the giant named "Willy", who captures Donald and Goofy and locks them in a box with a singing golden harp, and it's up to Mickey to find the keys and rescue them. The harp, in happier times, played a song that kept the land prosperous and fertile – until the giant stole her. Once freed, the hapless heroes return the golden harp to her rightful place and Happy Valley to its former glory.

Contents 1 Voice cast 2 Directing Animators 3 Worldwide release dates 4 TV broadcast and home video release 5 Trivia 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

• Cliff Edwards - Jiminy Cricket
• Edgar Bergen - Himself; Charlie McCarthy; Mortimer Snerd; Narrator ("Mickey and the Beanstalk")
• Luana Patten - Herself
• Walt Disney - Mickey Mouse
• Clarence Nash - Donald Duck
• Pinto Colvig - Goofy
• Billy Gilbert - Willie the Giant
• Anita Gordon - Singing Harp
• Dinah Shore - Narrator ("Bongo")

• Ward Kimball (Jiminy Cricket, Donald Duck)
• Les Clark (Lulu Belle)
• John Lounsbery (Willie the Giant)
• Fred Moore (Mickey)
• Wolfgang Reitherman (Goofy)

• September 27, 1947 USA
• October 17, 1947 Brazil
• December 25, 1947 Argentina
• January 22, 1948 U.K.
• May 27, 1948 Australia
• December 16, 1948 Mexico
• May 14, 1949 Denmark
• March 29, 1950 France
• May 15, 1950 Sweden
• June 14, 1951 Hong Kong
• February 22, 1952 Italy
• December 19, 1952 Finland
• May 22, 1953 Austria
• August 9, 1954 Japan

Although they were not made into individual full-length features, they did air as individual episodes on the anthology TV series in the 1950s and 60s. "Mickey and the Beanstalk" in particular aired on a 1963 episode with new introductory segments, and Ludwig Von Drake's narration replacing Edgar Bergen (and the sassy comments of his ventriloquist dummy, Charlie McCarthy). Another version of "Beanstalk" replaced Bergen with narration by Sterling Holloway, which was used as a stand-alone short in such venues as the 1980s TV show, Good Morning, Mickey!. They were also released on VHS cassettes, individually as well as together, and in 2000 Fun and Fancy Free was released on DVD. In 2004, "Mickey and the Beanstalk" was released on the Walt Disney Treasures line as a bonus feature for "Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two".

• Walt Disney had made a short entitled Jack and the Beanstalk in 1922.
• Disney sound-effects artists Jimmy MacDonald took over from Walt Disney as the voice of Mickey Mouse midway through the production of "Mickey and the Beanstalk."^[1]
• Jiminy Cricket and Willie the Giant also appeared during the live-action segments; the animated characters were added into the scenes using special effects.
• The "Bongo" sequence features an instance of the "Goofy holler."
• "Mickey and the Beanstalk" was also the basis for and title of the fifth level in the game, Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse (released on Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and Sega CD, and Sony PlayStation as Mickey's Wild Adventure).

• List of animated feature films
• List of package films

1. ^ Gabler, Neal (2006). Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. New York: Knopf. ISBN 067943822X. 

• Disney.com
• Fun and Fancy Free at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Disney theatrical animated features
Official canon	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) • Pinocchio (1940) • Fantasia (1940) • Dumbo (1941) • Bambi (1942) • Saludos Amigos (1942) • The Three Caballeros (1944) • Make Mine Music (1946) • Fun and Fancy Free (1947) • Melody Time (1948) • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) • Cinderella (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • Peter Pan (1953) • Lady and the Tramp (1955) • Sleeping Beauty (1959) • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) • The Sword in the Stone (1963) • The Jungle Book (1967) • The Aristocats (1970) • Robin Hood (1973) • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) • The Rescuers (1977) • The Fox and the Hound (1981) • The Black Cauldron (1985) • The Great Mouse Detective (1986) • Oliver & Company (1988) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • The Rescuers Down Under (1990) • Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Aladdin (1992) • The Lion King (1994) • Pocahontas (1995) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) • Hercules (1997) • Mulan (1998) • Tarzan (1999) • Fantasia 2000 (1999) • The Emperor's New Groove (2000) • Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) • Lilo & Stitch (2002) • Treasure Planet (2002) • Brother Bear (2003) • Home on the Range (2004) • Chicken Little (2005) • Meet the Robinsons (2007) • Bolt (2008) • The Princess and the Frog (2009) • Rapunzel (2010)
Live-action films with animation	The Reluctant Dragon (1941) • Victory Through Air Power (1943) • Song of the South (1946) • So Dear to My Heart (1949) • Mary Poppins (1964) • Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) • Pete's Dragon (1977) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) • Enchanted (2007)
DisneyToon features	DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) • A Goofy Movie (1995) • Doug's 1st Movie (1999) • The Tigger Movie (2000) • Recess: School's Out (2001) • Return to Never Land (2002) • The Jungle Book 2 (2003) • Piglet's Big Movie (2003) • Teacher's Pet (2004) • Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
Other	The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) • James and the Giant Peach (1996) • Dinosaur (2000) • A Christmas Carol (2009)
See also	Pixar • Walt Disney Animation Studios