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Ben and Me

Year:
Duration:
21 min
Genres:
Animation | Comedy | Family | Short
IMDB rate:
7.6
Director:
Hamilton Luske
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1953-11-10
Filming Locations: Walt Disney Studios, 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Sterling Holloway
Amos Mouse
Hans Conried
Tom Jefferson
Charles Ruggles
Ben Franklin (voice) (uncredited)
Bill Thompson
Governor Keith (voice) (uncredited)
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Trivia
When Amos is drawing up the BINDING contract with Ben, watch the gestures of his tail as he spells out this word.
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When originally released to theaters, this 21-minute cartoon short was double billed with the Walt Disney film The Living Desert (1953) as a 90-minute package deal. This and "The Living Desert" were the first to be released by Buena Vista. RKO continued to distribute Disney's cartoons until 1956. RKO shut down in 1957.
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Goofs
While Amos is writing his contract for him and Ben to go over, he writes the word "binding" in a completely different text format. This is to emphasize the importance of this clause.
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Benjamin Franklin was not the founder of the Pennsylvania Gazette, which predated Poor Richard's Almanack and was not the same publication under another name. He bought the Gazette in 1729 and published it until 1766 when it was bought by other publishers. Poor Richard's Almanack, which ran from 1732 to 1758, was a publication unrelated to the Gazette, and ran concurrently with it.
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Governor William Keith was the benefactor who took over the teenage Benjamin Franklin's newspaper apprenticeship in 1723 (sending him from Pennsylvania to London), and then made Franklin the scapegoat for Keith's financial mistakes. The film has the two not meeting until after Franklin is an established publisher.
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Quotes
Tom Jefferson: I've been racking my brains, working day and night, but it's no use! I'm stuck!
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Ben Franklin: Well, what would you suggest?
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Amos Mouse: My name's Amos, one of the church mice from over on Second Street, and the first thing I'd do is figure a way to heat this place. All your heat's going up the chimney.
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