Fun and Fancy Free

Edgar Bergen, Luana Patten, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd English speaker:

Cheerful, Free, fun is the ninth full-length animated film the Walt Disney Studios and dates from 1947. The film is the fourth of six films which instead is 1943-1949 from different parts of a single story.

In Germany the film was not running in the cinema, but first appeared in the 1980s in a heavily edited version under the title of Mickey, Donald & Goofy in Wonderland on video. In this version, all parts of the frame story were removed, it was the short film Ben and I inserted to fill the time. The uncut version was first released on 14 September 1999 on video. For this purpose, the entire film was re-synchronized. Here, some songs were left in the original English.

Action

The film consists of two parts which are connected by a frame activity. The film begins with a song by Jiminy Cricket ( the cricket from the Disney film Pinocchio ). Then he listens to a record, on the Dinah Shore tells the story of Bongo.

Bongo is a film based on the story by Sinclair Lewis. The circus bear Bongo likes it not in the circus. He breaks out and meets in the forest to other bears, whose customs he did not know. In order to win the heart of his heart lady Lulubelle, he must first confront his rival Lumpjaw.

Subsequently, Jiminy Cricket goes to the house of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, where this told in a live-action sequence two children and a ventriloquist's dummy, the Disney version of the English fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk:

In Mickey and the Beanstalk Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy climb up a climbing bean to save the Singing Harp from the House of Willi, the giants.

When Edgar Bergen ended the tale with the rescue of the harp, the giant opens the roof of Bergen's house in search of Mickey Mouse and goes down the hill to Hollywood.

Others

  • The U.S. theatrical release of the film was on 27 September 1946.
  • It will be sung the following songs: I'm Happy Go Lucky Fellow, Fun and Fancy Free, My, What a Happy Day, Fe Fi Fo Fum and My Favorite Dream. The song I'm Happy Go Lucky Fellow, Jiminy Cricket sings the beginning, was originally written for Pinocchio and recorded, but then not used.
  • The segment Bongo underlying story by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1930 in the Cosmopolitan.
  • As Mickey and the Beanstalk were shown in the 1960s alone on television, the scenes with Edgar Bergen and his friends by newly animated scenes with the Disney character Primus of Quack ( Ludwig Von Drake ) were replaced, which as in this version narrator serves.
  • For the segment Mickey and the Beanstalk, there was a scene in the storyboard, in the Mickey Mouse the cow to the Queen of Happy Valley ( Minnie Mouse ) sold. This scene was not animated. In an early storyboard version also sold Honest John foul Fellow - the fox from Pinocchio - Mickey Mouse magic beans. However, this was changed for the final theatrical version.
  • The segment was also the last time that Walt Disney Mickey Mouse lent his voice. However, Jim MacDonald took over the voice of Mickey's already in some parts of the film, as Disney had no more time. Billy Gilbert, the voice of giant Willi ( Willie the Giant ), was a famous radio comedian and speaker and the voice of Sneezy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937).

Media

Video

  • Fun and Fancy Free. USA 1982
  • Cheerful, Free, fun. Walt Disney Home Video 1999 ( Germany )

Laserdisc

  • Fun and Fancy Free. 50th Anniversary Edition. USA 1998

DVD

  • Fun and Fancy Free (Disney Gold Classic Collection). Walt Disney Home Video 2000 (USA)
  • Cheerful, Free, fun. Special Collection. Walt Disney Home Video 2003 ( Germany )
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