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Fun & Fancy Free
Director: William Morgan, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney
Product Group: Video
Studio: Walt Disney Video
ISBN: 6304400225
EAN: 9786304400227
UPC: 786936027556
VHS Tape
Running Time: 73 minutes
Original Release Date: 1947-09-27
Theatrical Release Date: 1947-09-27
Release Date: 1997-07-15
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
SKU: 104933
Condition: Very Good
Comments: 6304400225 Disney VHS from own collection, few viewings, clamshell case slightwear, tape plays perfectly. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
Fun is probably worth the purchase for "Mickey and the Beanstalk," the second half of this combo-film. "Beanstalk" includes the last performance by Walt Disney of Mickey Mouse. It also has Donald Duck and Goofy as comrades who climb the beanstalk in their back yard to face Willy the Giant. This segment actually achieves the goals of the film's title. The first half, however, is "Bongo," the story of a addlepated circus bear. "Bongo" is more poky and interest-free. Dinah Shore warbles and narrates the segment, and it goes on much too long for its purpose. Don't trade your cow in for it. --Keith Simanton
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Customer Reviews
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disney- fun and fancy free
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-07-06
i bought this for the grandkids but loved it myself. it's really a great dvd and the kid's watch it over and over. i would recommend this if you like disney.
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Do your homework!
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-01-09
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am still watching the laserdisc version of this film, so I cannot comment on the quality of the "restored" DVD. I intend to up-date to DVD shortly, if the DVD includes the short, historical "making of" that is on the laserdisc. It is a short, but fascinating look at the Disney Studios in 1947 and contains some brief, but previously unseen footage of Walt, himself, from that time. I would agree with the reviewers who say that the weakest part of the film is the Bongo segment. However, some of your writers need to do their homework before making the statement that the version of Mickey and the Beanstalk presented is an edited version with Edgar Bergen added as narrators. Indeed, this is the original version! It was the various incarnations on Disney's Wonderful World of Color that were re-edited, some with Professor Ludwick von Drake replacing the original Bergen/McCarthy narration. How horrible was that??
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Splice out the Edgar Bergan interruptions and reissue the film!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-01-02
1 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
Maybe he was popular at the time, but the narration interruptions by Edgar Bergan and his scary puppets are horribly annoying. My 3 year old kids can't watch this video because they start screaming that the TV is broken every time the video cuts from the animated story to the live action black and white footage of Edgar bergan explaining the story to his evil-looking puppets and annoying child actor assistant. By the same token they can't stand the stupid puppet sequences in Caillou videos (which are not present on the actual PBS airings of Caillou).
Disney should re-issue a new version of this DVD with all of the Edgar Bergan/evil puppet sequences edited out.
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Nice Little Gem
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-09-30
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I would give this a higher rating if the first segment ("Bongo") were better. I found it interminably boring and not at all imaginative. I bought the DVD for the "Mickey and the Beanstalk" segment, which I had on VHS. Even that featurette could have been improved, however. I found the intrusions in the narrative by Edgar Bergen and the children to be annoying. If they had only been seen at the beginning and end, that would have been alright. Still, for fans of classic Disney animation, I would recommend this title.
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Disappointing
Rating (1)
Date: 2007-09-26
3 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
The only reason I purchased this DVD was so I would have a good copy of of Mickey and the Beanstock, one of my favorites.
I was really disappointed when I watched it and discovered that I did not have the original version of Mickey and the Beanstock.
Instead there is this version with ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummies reading the story to a little girl. I wouldn't have minded if it was just an introduction, but Edgar Bergin and the dummies keep making comments throughout the entire cartoon.
This was a complaint I always had with the Walt Disney show when it was on. They would take classic cartoons that originally played in theaters re-edit them and show them on TV. Sometimes they would take bits from several different cartoons and combine them to make a show that had a certain theme. I hated that. I want to only see the original theatrical version - and this DVD is not it.
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