Walt Disney – The Truth About Mother Goose (1/2) – 1957

I saw this when I was about 7 years old and loved it; I did not see it again until I was much older, but the biggest impact was the one where Jack Horner was in his bedroom on the stolen estate, for some reason that bedroom and those huge windows and the song stayed with me, when I saw it again, I was just fascinated, like going back in time. Thanks so much for posting this.

this was the reason why, that nursery rhyme Mary Mary quite contrary scared the crap outta me.

It is SO refreshing to find this!! I remember watching it as a child, and have LOOOOONGED to see it … Thank you so much for posting!!!

I Love you! and I Love Mother Creator who is Mother Goose. Didn’t know there was a disney cartoon of Mother Goose until today.

I first saw this twenty years ago and it has stuck with me ever since. In fact the part about Mary Stewart is perhaps why i majored in History in college.

now that i think about it, mother goose’s stories are really creepy

How accurate are these explanations?

@buckingtrends yes yes, i think so

just discovered this gem last night on disney channel. love that the art is styled so much like sleeping beauty, and that despite it being disney. the jesters are hella creepy, especially at the end of the mary, mary part. definitely one of the darker disney shorts i’ve seen, especially for its time.

I just LOVE how Disney incorporates history into his works. They’re very entertaining and educational at the same time!

And we can be sure that the king let him have it… SPLAT!!! ROFL!!!!

I love the part with Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, it stuck with me ever since I first saw it on telly years ago.

Wolfgang Reitherman directed this no wonder I liked it sooo.

@underworld1623

oh my lord SO DO I
UTTERLY

Ah…I miss the old disney.

Actually Mary’s rhyme is based on both Mary I aka Bloody Mary the daughter of Henry the VIII, and Mary Queen of Scots

I thought about this short, glad could find it, its interesting when you see something when your younger, and then seeing it later and understanding things more

The animation style shown here would have scared the crap out of my if I watched this as a kid. I don’t know why, but there’s just something about those jesters that spook me.

I feel kinda the same way about Showbizz pizza before it became Chuck-E-Cheeze and it still scares me.

But it’s one of those fun thrilling kinda scares.

Saw this for the first time in 1990 on The Disney Channel. They aired it before ‘Sleeping Beauty’ [which I was taping onto VHS, so I taped this cartoon as well]. Love the animation, and was quite taken by the somber nature of the ‘Mary, Mary’ segment.

mostly children watch this video, goelizz. please delete the profanity. you are robbing them of their innocence, seriously. i’m not a holy roller btw, its just common decency.

Man, I loved this as a kid. They used to show it on “Quack attack” and “Mouse Tracks” on the Disney channel. I’ll admit, though, it scared me as a small child..especially the part about Mary.

i guess disney couldnt bring up the catholic and protestant stuff w/ mary, mary

This is wonderful, as always good old Disney! And specially interesting for non-English.
But I’m in two minds about how they showed Mary (who’s one of my favourite figures). I’m glad they didn’t make her look like a monster in opposite to Elisabeth, like-forgive me-many English do. But instead they suggested she was awful fizgig-and had no interest in country. 5:52 is quite outrageous. And she wasn’t like that!
But oh well… let’s not be too meticuolous. Children’s cartoon and a good one

Thanks for the comment…the hardest part in posting it was convincing my cat to type it for me…this too.

XD Funny