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  • The Big Fun Carnival (1957)
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    90 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
The Big Fun Carnival (1957)
Approved
90 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
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 ...See moreThe 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. Written by Les Adams See less
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Directors
Marc Daniels | Shamus Culhane (archive footage) | Hans Fischerkoesen (archive footage) | Dave Fleischer (archive footage) & 2 more
Writers
Louis M. Heyward (written by) | Dr. Seuss (story) (archive footage) | Isadore Klein (story) (archive footage) | George Pal (story) (archive footage)
Producers
Max Fleischer (archive footage) | Louis M. Heyward | George Pal (archive footage)
Composers
Thurston Knudson | Winston Sharples | Adolf Steimel | George Steiner
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Release date
Jan 20, 1957 (United States)

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4 cast members
Name Known for
Marian Stafford's primary photo
Marian Stafford
Mistress of Ceremonies Mistress of Ceremonies   See fewer
Treasure Hunt (1956)
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Jared Reed
Folk Singer Jared Reed Folk Singer Jared Reed   See fewer
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
Bunin's Puppets's primary photo
Bunin's Puppets
Puppets Puppets   See fewer
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Mae Questel's primary photo
Mae Questel
Betty Boop (voice) (archive footage) Betty Boop (voice) (archive footage)   See fewer
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
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