“Fun and Fancy Free,” another one of Disney’s WWII-era double featurettes, puts Mickey Mouse in the “Jack and the Beanstalk” role but not before giving viewers another animated tale of unlucky circus ...

If you’re looking to watch and stream Fun and Fancy Free, look no further, as we have all the details right here for you. The movie focuses on Jiminy Cricket, who hosts two Disney animated shorts – ...

After the grab-bag nature of MAKE MINE MUSIC, FUN AND FANCY FREE feels a much tighter return to form for the Disney studios. Both shorts, Bongo and Mickey and the Beanstalk were started on almost a ...

Even those who aren't admirers of Disney Inc. have to sort of admire the company's possession of a cultural stranglehold so powerful that it can reissue even its failed 50-year-old projects and label ...

Over the past century, the evolution of animation, and the process of creating it, has evolved rapidly. The industry was able to survive and even thrive with the pressure of a global emergency like ...

Disney’s 1947 animated feature Fun and Fancy Free included the “Mickey and the Beanstalk” segment, a cute adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Willie captures Mickey and Co. once they venture up the ...

somehow fit together into a cohesive feature. By its release in 1948, Disney was inching back to the full-length animated form, and these mini-features show a bump up in sheen and polish generally ...

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.