Mabelworld
Jiminey Cricket is a nice character. He makes me laugh and I really like when he sings You are a Human Animal. I also like his "I'm No Fool" series of older clips on You Tube. I'm no Fool with Fire is great! I'm no fool as a pedestrian is another oldie but goodies.I'm no fool in water is very informative.I'm no fool with electricity makes sure there is safety around electricity.Overall, Jiminey Cricket is just about my favorite Disney Character! Hope you like him too!All of Jiminey Cricket's advice is usually good advice.
Ron Oliver
A Walt Disney Cartoon.Jiminy Cricket delivers pertinent facts about YOU THE HUMAN ANIMAL.This was one of a short series of little films in which Disney educated his young viewers about the workings of their remarkable bodies, with comparisons & examples drawn from the world of nature. Did you know that Humans are the only living beings with chins & flexible thumbs? Or that our abilities to think, reason & speak make us absolutely unique? Jiminy is voiced by the inimitable Cliff Edwards.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.
