A ranger tries to get his bears to clean up the mess the tourists have left behind.A ranger tries to get his bears to clean up the mess the tourists have left behind.A ranger tries to get his bears to clean up the mess the tourists have left behind.
- Director
- Writers
- Stars
Photos
James MacDonald
- Humphrey the Bear
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Bill Thompson
- Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Jackson Weaver
- Smokey the Bear
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaIn later broadcasts of this short film on television, the part involving Smokey the Bear was removed.
- GoofsIn one scene of the full-screen version (but not the CinemaScope version), when a rabbit pushes all of the trash out of its bush that Humphrey had swept it into, the whole line of trash moves together, even the part which is past and should have been left behind.
- Quotes
Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore: [singing] First you stick a rag / Put it in the bag / Bump bump! / Then you bend your back / Put it in the sack / Bump bump! / That's the way it's done / It's a lot of fun / Bump bump! / Cuttin' capers / Puttin' papers in the bag!
- ConnectionsEdited into The Magical World of Disney: Duck Flies Coop (1959)
- SoundtracksPut It in the Bag (The Humphrey Hop)
Music by George Bruns
Lyrics by Daws Butler
Performed by Bill Thompson
Featured review
Top-drawer, shame it was the last
This was the last cartoon produced by Disney's shorts unit before it closed down (although afterwards, the studio's feature animators would make one or two shorts a year, when they had the time, at least until Walt Disney's death). It's fitting that it was made by the studio's greatest director, Jack Hannah. By Hannah's standards it's good but not outstanding - which means that by other standards it IS outstanding. It's only the second cartoon to star Humphrey B. Bear (incidentally, that name was later adopted by an insipid man-in-a-bear-suit fixture of Australian children's television, which is an insult - I don't know why Disney let them get away with it), a character Hannah introduced as a supporting player in the 1953 Donald Duck cartoon, "Rugged Bear". (Of the six cartoons in which Humphrey appears the first of them is the only one I haven't seen. It was nominated for an Oscar, not that that means anything.) Humphrey is an inspired character. Like all of Hannah's creations he has adult human intelligence, give or take, but is beast, not man, at heart. He is the greatest of all animated bears.
These days "In the Bag" is mainly used as a way of letting children know that they should tidy up after themselves, but put its dubious propaganda value to one side: it's a first-class, charmingly dotty, very funny piece of animation.
These days "In the Bag" is mainly used as a way of letting children know that they should tidy up after themselves, but put its dubious propaganda value to one side: it's a first-class, charmingly dotty, very funny piece of animation.
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- Spleen
- Mar 21, 2002
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- Runtime7 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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