Mickey and the Beanstalk
Mickey, Donald, and Goofy live in a land where everything is dried up and dead. The only food they have is one loaf of bread, even Donald’s plans of killing their cow fail. So Mickey decides to trade in the cow and gets some magic beans. Donald angrily throws the beans into a hole in the floor and during the night, a giant beanstalk sprouts, carrying the house upward. The next morning, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find themselves in a land with a huge castle. They enter the castle and find enormous foods. What they don’t know is that Willie the Giant owns the castle and he does not like what he finds. So he captures Donald and Goofy and locks them in a box with the golden harp he had stolen earlier, which makes Happy Valley, the three friends’ home land, dry up. Mickey steals the keys, rescues his friends and the singing harp, and they all escape before Willie catches them.
Originally a segment of the 1947 feature Fun and Fancy Free and later released on its own, this is the last great Mickey, Donald and Goofy performance. Willie the Giant is one of Disney's finest character creations — enormous, slow, entirely amiable and therefore genuinely frightening — and the famine sequence at the start, where Donald cracks up over a single slice of bread, is the best acting in any Mickey short. If you want one film from this archive to put on for a family, this is a strong candidate.