Wish I were a sitting under an apple tree, having a solemn little think.

i’m kind of like the standard homie

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First shot of animation: Jiminy Cricket paddling a leaf through the lilly pads.

Yet another package film, with a terribly thin frame to join two stories originally in development as standalone features. Jiminy Cricket extols the virtues of good vibes and listens to two other people tell unrelated stories. Cool. While he’s singing his intro song he opens a newspaper with headlines about rising sea levels and a constitutional crisis, then tells us to just smile.

The first real segment is Bongo, adapted from a Sinclair Lewis short story. It’s a call of the wild thing, and sort of a Dances with Wolves as Bongo uses his civilized skills to excel once he learns their savage ways. (Lewis’ story doesn’t go that way at all). The most important thing he learns is bear romance. “Every deer and every dove has a way of making love, but a bear likes to say it with a slap” Moving on.

There’s actually two frame stories. Jiminy goes next door to crash a party where Edgar Bergen and his puppets are doing their act for a little girl. Four people at this party and three of them are the same guy. Bergen narrates Mickey and the Beanstalk with his puppets continuing to interject.

This might be the best-known segment from the package films and for good reason. It owns. Donald Duck going apeshit on a cow with a hatchet, the transparent bean sandwich, we love it. Shorts need strong, vibrant characters like Donald, Goofy, and Mickey. Bongo doesn’t cut it.

The beanstalk growing is the most captivating animation since Bambi and Fantasia, 5 years previous. Mickey and the Beanstalk probably wouldn’t have carried a full feature, and having some Charlie McCarthy gags cover for the scenes they hadn’t nailed down works. Maybe by the end we’ll be able to make two really good package films out of all the segments.