Fun and Fancy Free is made up of a cartoon about a circus bear that escapes called Bongo and Mickey and the Beanstalk. I really like bears and I don't remember having ever seen Bongo so I was pretty excited. The cartoon was a pretty predictable story reminiscent of a lot of Disney stories were an animal find himself in unfamiliar circumstances and things his cleverness and determination will get him through but then almost doesn't make it until he finds others like himself only to prove that he should be part of the group. The best part of the cartoon is a weird song about how bears supposedly slap each other when they are in love.
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Mickey and the Beanstalk was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid. I had a Disney picture book that also told the story. Disney does a great job of insert Donald, Goofy and Mickey into this story. One of my favorite Disney animation sequences is when are our three heroes are asleep and the magic bean sprouts and destroys the house and slowly raises them up to the clouds while they sleep. Finally, Willie the Giant is one of the best obscure Disney characters.
Melody Time is kind of like Fantasia but with popular music instead of classical pieces. It includes two of Disney's animated tall tale pieces, Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed, which I remember watching on film in fifth grade. Having a biased toward Fantasia, I didn't expect to like this as much as I did. The pieces were long enough to be full stories but short enough to hold my attention. They are well ordered and stay constant to a theme. "Johnny Appleseed" is by far the best piece in the whole film. It is beautifully animated and funny and a true telling of classic story. Pecos Bill is a close second because it is a perfect story to be animated because it is so over the top.
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