Happy, free, fun with it

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Movie
German title Happy, free, fun with it
Original title Fun and Fancy Free
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1947
length 73 minutes
Age rating FSK o. A.
Rod
Director Bill Roberts ,
Animation:
Jack Kinney ,
Hamilton Luske ,
Live Action:
William Morgan
script Homer Brightman ,
Eldon Dedini ,
Sinclair Lewis (Story by Bongo ),
Lance Nolley ,
Tom Oreb ,
Harry Reeves ,
Ted Sears
production Walt Disney
music Eliot Daniel ,
Paul J. Smith ,
Oliver Wallace
camera Charles P. Boyle
cut Jack Bachom
occupation

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

Happy, Free, Fun (alternative title: Disney's brave heroes ) is the ninth full-length cartoon from the Walt Disney Studios and dates back to 1947 . The film is the fourth of six films made between 1943 and 1949 that consists of different parts rather than a single story.

In Germany, the film was not shown in cinemas, but appeared on video for the first time in the 1980s in a heavily edited version under the title Micky, Donald & Goofy in Märchenland . In this version, all parts of the framework have been removed, but the short film Ben and I was inserted to fill up the time. The unabridged version was first released on video on September 14, 1999. The entire film was re-dubbed for this purpose. Some songs were left in the original English.

action

The film consists of two parts that are linked by a framework story. The film opens with a song by Jiminy Cricket (the cricket from the Disney movie Pinocchio ). He then listens to a record on which Dinah Shore tells the story of Bongo .

Bongo is a film adaptation of the story of the same name by Sinclair Lewis . The circus bear Bongo no longer likes it in the circus. He breaks out and meets other bears in the forest, but whose customs he does not know. In order to win the heart of his lady of heart Lulubelle, he first has to face his rival Lumpjaw.

Then Jiminy Cricket goes to the house of the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen , where he tells the Disney version of the English fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk to a child and two ventriloquist dolls in a real film sequence :

In Mickey and the Climbing Bean , Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck and Goofy climb up a climbing bean to save the singing harp from the house of Willi the giant.

When Edgar Bergen finishes the fairy tale by saving the harp, the giant opens the roof of Bergen's house in search of Mickey Mouse and goes down the mountain to Hollywood .

Others

  • The film hit theaters on September 27, 1947.
  • The following songs are sung: 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 , which Jiminy Cricket sings at the beginning, was originally written and recorded for Pinocchio , but was never used.
  • The story by Sinclair Lewis on which the segment Bongo is based was first published in 1930 in the Cosmopolitan .
  • When Mickey and the Climbing Bean were shown individually on television in the 1960s , the scenes with Edgar Bergen and his friends were replaced by newly animated scenes with the Disney character Primus von Quack (Ludwig Von Drake), who in this version is the narrator serves.
  • For the Mickey and the Climbing Bean segment , there was a scene in the storyboard in which Mickey Mouse sells the cow to the Queen of the Happy Valley (Minnie Mouse). But this scene was not animated. In an early storyboard version, Honest John Foulfellow - the fox from Pinocchio - sells Mickey Mouse the magic beans. But that was changed for the final theatrical version.
  • The segment was also the last time Walt Disney gave Mickey Mouse his voice. However, Jim MacDonald took over Mickey's voice in parts of the movie when Disney ran out of time. Billy Gilbert , the voice of giant Willi ( Willie the Giant ), was a well-known radio comedian and spokesman and the voice of Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

media

VHS
  • Fun and Fancy Free . USA, 1982.
  • Happy, free, fun with it . Walt Disney Home Video, 1999.
Laser disc
  • Fun and Fancy Free. 50th Anniversary Edition. USA, 1998.
DVD
  • Fun and Fancy Free (Disney Gold Classic Collection) . Walt Disney Home Video, 2000.
  • Happy, free, fun with it . Special Collection. Walt Disney Home Video, 2003.
  • Disney Classics: Happy, Free, Fun . Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, 2017.

literature

  • Sinclair Lewis : Bongo. (Original title: Bongo ). German by Franz Fein . With drawings by Hilde Bauer . Private printing of the Hauserpresse (Hans Schaefer), Frankfurt am Main 1932.

Web links

Films from Walt Disney Animation Studios
1937-1949

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs  (1937)  • Pinocchio  (1940)  • Fantasia  (1940)  • Dumbo  (1941)  • Bambi  (1942)  • Saludos Amigos  (1943)  • Three Caballeros  (1944)  • Make Mine Music  (1946)  • Happy, Free, fun while doing it  (1947)  • Music, dance and rhythm  (1948)  • The adventures of Ichabod and Taddäus Toad  (1949)

1950-1999

Cinderella  (1950)  • Alice in Wonderland  (1951)  • Peter Pan  (1953)  • Lady and the Tramp  (1955)  • Sleeping Beauty  (1959)  • 101 Dalmatians  (1961)  • The Witch and the Wizard  (1963)  • The Jungle Book  (1967)  • Aristocats  (1970)  • Robin Hood  (1973)  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh  (1977)  • Bernard and Bianca - The Mouse Police  (1977)  • Cap and Capper  (1981)  • Taran and the Cauldron  (1985)  • Basil, the Great Mouse Detective  (1986)  • Oliver & Co.  (1988)  • Arielle, the Mermaid  (1989)  • Bernard and Bianca in Kangaroo Land  (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)

from 2000

Dinosaurs  (2000)  • A Kingdom for a Lama  (2000)  • Atlantis - The Secret of the Lost City  (2001)  • Lilo & Stitch  (2002)  • The Treasure Planet  (2002)  • Brothers Bear  (2003)  • The Cows Are Going  (2004)  • Heaven and Chicken  (2005)  • Meet the Robinsons  (2007)  • Bolt - A Dog for All Cases  (2008)  • Kiss the Frog  (2009)  • Rapunzel - New Spoiled  (2010)  • Winnie the Pooh  (2011)  • Ralph Enough  ( 2012)  • The Frozen - Totally Unabashed  (2013)  • Baymax - Giant Robowabohu  (2014)  • Zoomania  (2016)  • Vaiana  (2016)  • Chaos in the Net  (2018)  • The Frozen II  (2019)

Future

Raya and the Last Dragon  (2021)