
Fun and Fancy Free(1947)
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.


“Before the Little Mermaid, there was...”
A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and The Emperor's New Clothes.

Paul O'Keefe
Chris

Jack Gilford
Papa Andersen

Margaret Hamilton
Mrs. Klopplebobbler

Ray Bolger
The Pieman
Robert Harter
Big Claus

Tallulah Bankhead
The Sea Witch (voice)

Victor Borge
Zenith, the Second Tailor (voice)

Patty Duke
Thumbelina (voice)

Sessue Hayakawa
The Mole (voice)

Burl Ives
Father Neptune (voice)
The Daydreamer is a animation, adventure, family, fantasy, music film released in 1966 exploring themes of fairy tale, stop motion, fable, cobbler, based on fairy tale, garden of eden. Directed by Jules Bass, it stars Paul O'Keefe, Jack Gilford, Margaret Hamilton. A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and The Emperor's New Clothes.
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