Fun and Fancy Free

Fun and Fancy Free
Directit bi	Jack Kinney (animation) Bill Roberts (animation) Hamilton Luske (animation) William Morgan (live-action)
Produced bi	Walt Disney
Story bi	Homer Brightman Eldon Dedini Lance Nolley Tom Oreb Harry Reeves Ted Sears
Based on	Little Bear Bongo bi Sinclair Lewis (Bongo) Jack and the Beanstalk (Mickey and the Beanstalk)
Starnin	Cliff Edwards Edgar Bergen Luana Patten Walt Disney Clarence Nash Pinto Colvig Billy Gilbert Anita Gordon
Narratit bi	Dinah Shore (Bongo) Edgar Bergen (Mickey and the Beanstalk)
Muisic bi	Oliver Wallace Paul Smith Eliot Daniel Charles Wolcott
Eeditit bi	Jack Bachom
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributit bi	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	27 September 1947 (1947-09-27)
Rinnin time	73 minutes
Kintra	Unitit States
Leid	Inglis
Box office	$3,165,000 (worldwide rentals)

Fun and Fancy Free is a 1947 American animatit muisical fantasy package film produced bi Walt Disney an released on September 27, 1947 bi RKO Radio Pictures. It is the ninth Disney animatit featur film an the fowert o the package films the studio produced in the 1940s in order tae save money durin Warld War II. The Disney package films o the late 1940s helped finance Cinderella (1950), an subsequent ithers, sic as Alice in Wonderland (1951), an Peter Pan (1953).

The film is a compilation o twa stories, the first o which, Bongo, is hosted bi Jiminy Cricket an narrated bi Dinah Shore. Based on the tale Little Bear Bongo bi Sinclair Lewis, Bongo tells the story o a circus bear cub named Bongo wha longs for freedom frae captivity. Bongo escapes the circus an eventually forms a romantic relationship wi a female bear cub named Lulubelle in the wild, realizin that he must prove himsel in order tae earn Lulubelle as his mate. The second story, Mickey and the Beanstalk, is hosted bi Edgar Bergen an is a retellin o Jack and the Beanstalk featurin Mickey, Donald, an Goofy as three peasants wha discover the temperamental Willie the Giant's castle in the sky throu the uise o some magic beans. Thay must battle the greedy but lovable giant in order tae restore peace tae thair valley. Though the film is primarily animatit, it an aw uses live-action segments tae jyn its twa stories thegither. Mickey and the Beanstalk wis the last time Walt Disney voiced Mickey Mouse, acause he wis too busy on ither projects tae continue voicin the famous chairacter. Disney replaced himsel wi sound effects airtist Jimmy MacDonald.