BEN and ME - Original 25-Cent Little Golden Book (1954)
Pictures adapted by Campbell Grant from the Walt Disney film based on the original book by Robert Lawson. The story involves a Philadelphia church mouse who helps Benjamin Franklin with his most famous inventions.
SPOILER! And eventually writes the Declaration of Independence!
This is a nicely designed Disney Golden Book, based on the extra-length Disney short.
Campbell Grant was one of the more distinctive and stylized Disney book illustrators. His full-color illustrations here capture the stylized Americana look also seen in the Disney feature ICHABOD AND MISTER TOAD.
The film itself is beautifully designed and color-styled in the mode of such 1950s Disney classics as CINDERELLA and ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
In fact, Amos Mouse is definitely an American cousin to CINDERELLA's Jacques Souris.
This charming and drolly humorous film is narrated by veteran Disney voice artist, Sterling Holloway, and may be seen in the "Disney Rarities" DVD set.
BEN and ME - Original 25-Cent Little Golden Book (1954)
Pictures adapted by Campbell Grant from the Walt Disney film based on the original book by Robert Lawson. The story involves a Philadelphia church mouse who helps Benjamin Franklin with his most famous inventions.
SPOILER! And eventually writes the Declaration of Independence!
This is a nicely designed Disney Golden Book, based on the extra-length Disney short.
Campbell Grant was one of the more distinctive and stylized Disney book illustrators. His full-color illustrations here capture the stylized Americana look also seen in the Disney feature ICHABOD AND MISTER TOAD.
The film itself is beautifully designed and color-styled in the mode of such 1950s Disney classics as CINDERELLA and ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
In fact, Amos Mouse is definitely an American cousin to CINDERELLA's Jacques Souris.
This charming and drolly humorous film is narrated by veteran Disney voice artist, Sterling Holloway, and may be seen in the "Disney Rarities" DVD set.