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Fun and Fancy Free

Fun and Fancy Free

Animation · Family · Fantasy · 1947

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.

Movie details

Fun and Fancy Free

1947 Animation · Family · Fantasy 1h 13m

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TMDB

6.3 / 10

Community rating

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.

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What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Hamilton Luske · Jack Kinney · Bill Roberts

Written by

Harry Reeves · Homer Brightman · Eldon Dedini · Ted Sears

Edgar Bergen

Edgar Bergen

Himself / Charlie McCarthy / Mortimer Snerd

Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore

Narrator (voice)

Luana Patten

Luana Patten

Herself

Walt Disney

Walt Disney

Mickey Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

A

Anita Gordon

Singing Harp (voice)

Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards

Jiminy Cricket (voice)

Clarence Nash

Clarence Nash

Donald Duck / Cat (voice)

Court is in session

Put Fun and Fancy Free on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.