"From Aesop to Hans Christian Andersen" is an episode of Disneyland.
Synopsis[]
One of the most popular episodes from Disneyland's first season, "From Aesop to Hans Christian Andersen" offers choice clips of past Disney cartoon shorts, based on famous fables, written by Aesop, La Fontaine, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen. Excerpts include complete showings of The Tortoise and the Hare, The Country Cousin, The Ugly Duckling, and the Mickey Mouse short Brave Little Tailor, plus an excerpt of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Cast[]
- Walt Disney - Himself - Host
- Unidentified - Hans Christian Andersen
- Bill Thompson - Aesop, Little Frogs
- Jimmy MacDonald - Big Frog, Wolf Growl, Reynard
- Clarence Nash - Donkey
- Norma Swank-Haviland - Singing Crow
Trivia[]
- This episode was theatrically released in Denmark on October 12, 1959.
- This episode was remade in the 1980s on The Disney Channel as Jiminy Cricket: Storyteller.
- The owl's design is reused from Professor Owl.
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