Babes in Toyland

The Toymaker (Ed Wynn) is stalling as he marries villain Barnaby (Ray Bolger) and innocent Mary (Annette Funicello), to give shrunken Tom (Tommy Sands) time to rally the toy soldiers, Bill Justice’s special effects sequence the most famous piece of Disney’s Babes In Toyland, 1961.

The solo number by Annette Funicello as “Mary Contrary,” lamenting her finances, the song by George Bruns and Mel Leven, Eustace Lycett and Robert A. Mattey credited for special effects, in Walt Disney’s Babes In Toyland, 1961.

First Sylvester the goose, voice by director Jack Donohue, Mary McCarty as Mother Goose, then the chorus with the first song adapted by George Bruns from the 1903 opera, with new lyrics by Mel Leven, choreography by Tom Mahoney, the leads not yet seen, in Disney’s Babes In Toyland , 1961.

We meet Ray Bolger in his wild turn as villain Barnaby, observing the innocent Mary and Tom (Annette Funicello, Tommy Sands), with henchmen (Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon), some technical dazzle, and the top of another song by George Bruns and Mel Leven, in Disney’s Babes In Toyland , 1961.