Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
Since it is on the same blu-ray disc, let's also take a look today at the movie Fun and Fancy Free. The Movie: Fun and Fancy Free is the 9th film in the Disney Animated Canon. It is another one of the 1940s "package" films, using narration and framing devices to combine two separate stories together, both of which had originally been planned as longer films. The first segment of Fun and Fancy Free is the story of Bongo. Based on a children's story by Sinclair Lewis, the title character is a circus bear who longs to live a free life in the great outdoors. He soon discovers that this life is not everything he imagined. The segment is introduced in an animated segment featuring Jiminy Cricket, who puts on the record of this story, narrated in speaking and singing by Dinah Shore. There is no dialogue in this segment. For the second segment, Jiminy Cricket enters the live-action home of Edgar Bergen, who is hosting a party with his ventriloquist dummi...