The Truth About Mother Goose (1957)
We learn the true stories behind various nursery rhymes. Little Jack Horner: a servant to a city official was delivering a present to King Henry VIII, baked, as was the custom of the time, in a pie. The present was the deed to a valuable estate, which Horner stole. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: Mary Stuart brought "quite contrary" French style to the Scottish court. After a series of disastrous romances, she was jailed; the jailer's son, captivated by her, helped her escape. After a brief but disastrous attempted coup, she fled to England, where her sister, Queen Elizabeth, soon grew jealous and had her imprisoned. London Bridge: The bridge, finished in 1209, was soon lined by shops with luxury apartments upstairs, turning into a popular commercial and cultural zone. The Great Fire that broke out in 1666 spread to the bridge, but the houses were rebuilt. Over the ages, things decayed. In 1823, things finally got bad enough that the bridge was demolished and replaced.
Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, Bill Justice.
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John Dehner as Narrator |
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Page Cavanaugh as Trio (voice) |
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Kevin Corcoran as Little Jack Horner (voice) (uncredited) |
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Ginny Tyler as Mary Mary Quite Contrary / Various (voice) (uncredited) |
| Directing | Wolfgang Reitherman | Director |
| Directing | Bill Justice | Director |
| Visual Effects | Eric Cleworth | Animation |
| Art | Richard H. Thomas | Background Designer |
| Writing | Bill Peet | Story |
| Visual Effects | Cliff Nordberg | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Al Stetter | Animation |
| Production | Walt Disney | Producer |
| Sound | George Bruns | Original Music Composer |
| Visual Effects | Dan MacManus | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Bill Keil | Animation |
| Art | Al Dempster | Background Designer |
| Art | Collin Campbell | Background Designer |
| Art | Eyvind Earle | Background Designer |
| Visual Effects | Dick N. Lucas | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Ed Parks | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Fred Hellmich | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Dick Ung | Layout Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Xavier Atencio | Layout Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Vance Gerry | Layout Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Basil Davidovich | Layout Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Kay Wright | Animation |
