"The Truth About Mother Goose" is a 15-minute cartoon from 1957, so this one has its 60th anniversary this year. If you read the names of directors Justice, Reitherman and writer Peet, then you have a trio who worked on a couple quality films from Disney, including full feature films too that are seen as classics today. And while they may not reach greatness with this little film here, it is nonetheless a fruitful collaboration. This is a work that is pretty different compared to the classic Disney cartoons starring Donald, Mickey etc. The character design is especially very different, the runtime is doubled (even if it is really 2 in 1 here) and there are more differences that can easily be identified by the trained eye. It is actually a pretty British film as the subjects of Mary Queen of Scots and London Bridge take away far from the United States. But while comedy is still present, this was almost more of an informative little documentary. Disney was clearly trying to find new directions for his works to still be as liked and successful as they were a decade ago.The London Bridge nursery rhyme is as great as always. What else? This is one of Disney's later, but not latest Oscar nominations. It lost out to a Sylvester/Tweety cartoon (obviously) by Warner Bros. Back to this one here, it was a good watch in terms of visual aspects, narration, the informative component, the rhyming and of course the fun. Worth checking out for sure. Go for it if you love old cartoons.
