A collection of ten shorts, which are hit or miss for me, there's some classics and some that you'll forget just after watching. The classics being Casey at bat, Peter and the Wolf, The Whale that wanted to sing at the MET and Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet. The others are just to me kinda glorified Silly Symphonies added in to give the movie in between the bigger stories a little meat. Again we're at the odd point in the studios history the films were actually called "Packaged Films" because of their containing all short stories. The four "Package Films" being Make Mine Music, Fun And Fancy Free, Melody Time, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Again this was because of the war which left the studios with a number of unfinished works and ideas that were too long to be considered shorts and too short to be considered features. Digging into the history, the first short Blue Bayou was actually originally intended for a Claire De Lune sequence of Fantasia but was cut out of the feature and re purposed and originally there was an eleventh cartoon "The Martins and the McCoys" , a version of the Hatfields and McCoys, which was deemed to violent for modern audiences when it was released on home video due to guns and people being shot so it was edited out of the film.
Believe it or not there are parts of this that have made it into the parks. Casey at bat has ties into Casey's Corner at the Magic Kingdom and also if you wander the Philharmagic queue you'll find a poster advertising Willie the whale, also didn't mention it last post you'll find The Three Caballeros poster in the queue as well. So it goes to show that even the smallest of cartoons can be found around the resort.
