Amos invents bifocals for Ben and inspires him to create the Franklin stove. Having no luck, he takes shelter in Ben's shop and befriends the beleaguered printer. After describing the exploits of some of his ancestors, Amos tells his own story: The eldest of 26 siblings living in the Christ Church, Philadelphia, he sets out on his own in 1745 to find work. In DTV, the short was set to Stevie Wonder's For Once in My Life.Īt a statue of Benjamin Franklin, the leader of a tour group of mice reveals the contributions of a mouse named Amos to Franklin's career, reading from Amos' diary, titled Ben and Me. When Disney's regular distributor RKO Radio Pictures resisted the idea of a full-length True-Life Adventure, Disney formed his own distribution company to handle future Disney releases. On its release, Ben and Me was packaged with the True-Life Adventure documentary The Living Desert. This short was also notable for being the second release on the Buena Vista Distribution label, with the first being Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, released on the same day. The short received an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject, Two-reel. Though both book and film deal with the relationship between a mouse and American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, the book, with illustrations by Lawson, focused more heavily on actual historical events and personages, and included incidents from Franklin's French career at Versailles. It was adapted from the children's book written by author/illustrator Robert Lawson and first published in 1939. Ben and Me is a 1953 American animated two-reel short subject produced by Walt Disney Productions and released theatrically on November 10, 1953.
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