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The Big Fun Carnival

0.0 90 mins Animation   Comedy   Fantasy   1957
APA : Artistes Producteurs Associés   Famous Studios   Fleischer Studios   Paramount Pictures  
Director(s): Hans Fischerkoesen Marc Daniels Shamus Culhane Dave Fleischer George Pal John A. Haeseler

The first of a series of 12 compilation features (number 1-12)made for theatres to use as a Saturday Matinee offering aimed strictly at children. Marian Stafford, folk-singer Jared Reed, and The Bunin Puppets appear before and after each cartoon short. All of the cartoon shorts were originally released by Paramount, and included "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1943)" - Betty Boop's "Crazy Town (1932)" - "The Silly Goose/Dumme Ganslein, Der (1945)" - "The Busy Little Bears (1939)" - "Toys Will Be Toys (1949)", and other Paramount cartoons, shorts and a couple of the audience-participation Screen Song singalong shorts. Strictly sold on a "Park-the-kids-and-go-shopping" or "Cheap Baby-Sitting" basis, and, since it was geared toward the kids, there was also a bath-room break intermission about halfway through the film. New footage and some of the cartoons in Technicolor, but a few of the cartoons were black-and-white.

Casts of The Big Fun Carnival

Marian Stafford

as Mistress of Ceremonies

Jared Reed

as Folk Singer Jared Reed

Mae Questel

as Betty Boop

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