The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on March 11, 1977. It is the twenty-second animated feature in the Disney animated features canon.
The film is actually composed of material from three previously released animated featurettes based upon the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (1974). Because of this, it is seen by some as the last of the Disney "package films" (movies consisting of two or more short segments), the bulk of which were produced by the studio to keep costs down during World War II. Pooh was produced for similar economic reasons. This is also the last film in the Disney canon in which Walt Disney had personal involvement, since one of the shorts (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree) was released during his lifetime, and he was involved in the production of Blustery Day.
Its characters have spawned an industry of sequels, television programs, clothing, books, and toys. The film differs from the three individual shorts by having newly-created linking material, and an ending to give closure to the stories (based on the final chapter of The House at Pooh Corner). It was always Walt Disney's intention to create a feature film, but he decided to make shorts instead — after production had begun — to familiarize US audiences with the characters. All three shorts as well as future feature films boast classic songs by the Sherman Brothers including "Winnie The Pooh" and "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers".
The film also inspired an attraction of the same name at Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and Hong Kong Disneyland. A much more elaborate attraction, also based on the film, opened in Tokyo Disneyland as "Pooh's Hunny Hunt".
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[edit] Crew members
Story 1:
- A.A. Milne (books)
Story 2:
- Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Vance Gerry, Xavier Atencio, Julius Svendsen, Ted Berman, Eric Cleworth
"Blustery Day" Story Supervision:
- Winston Hilber
[edit] Characters
- Winnie the Pooh, voiced by Sterling Holloway
- Piglet, voiced by John Fiedler
- Tigger, voiced by Paul Winchell
- Rabbit, voiced by Junius Matthews
- The Narrator, voiced by Sebastian Cabot
- Christopher Robin, voiced by Bruce Reitherman in Honey Tree, Jon Walmsley in Blustery Day, and Timothy Turner in Tigger Too!
- Eeyore, voiced by Ralph Wright
- Owl, voiced by Hal Smith
- Roo, voiced by Clint Howard in Honey Tree and Blustery Day, and Dori Whitaker in Tigger Too!
- Kanga, voiced by Barbara Luddy
- Gopher, voiced by Howard Morris in Honey Tree and Blustery Day
[edit] Home video
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was first released on VHS, Betamax, CED videorecord, and laserdisc in the early 1980s. In 1996, it was re-released on VHS as part of the Masterpiece Collection. It was released on DVD for the first time in 2002 as a 25th Anniversary Edition, with digitally restored picture and sound. The individual shorts had also been released on their own on VHS in the 1990s.
The "Friendship Edition" DVD was re-released on June 19, 2007. All of the special features from the previous "25th Anniversary Edition" DVD were recycled; the only new addition being an episode of Playhouse Disney's computer-animated series My Friends Tigger & Pooh. The DVD re-release coincides with the 30th anniversary of the release of the film. [1]
[edit] Songs
1. "Winnie the Pooh"
- Written by Richard and Robert Sherman
- Performed by the Disney Chorus
2. "Up, Down And Touch The Ground"
- Written by Richard and Robert Sherman
- Performed by Sterling Holloway
3. "Rumbly In My Tumbly"
- Written by Richard and Robert Sherman
- Performed by Sterling Holloway
4. "(I'm Just A) Little Black Raincloud"
- Written by Richard and Robert Sherman
- Performed by Sterling Holloway and Bruce Reitherman
5. "Mind Over Matter"
- Written by Richard and Robert Sherman
- Performed by Sterling Holloway, Bruce Reitherman, Junius Matthews, Ralph Wright, Clint Howard, Barbara Luddy, and Hal Smith
- Written by Richard and Robert Sherman
- Performed by Sterling Holloway
7. "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers"
- Written by Richard and Robert Sherman
- Performed by Paul Winchell
- Written by Richard and Robert Sherman
- Performed by the Disney Chorus
9. "The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down"
- Written by Richard and Robert Sherman
- Performed by the Disney Chorus
10. "Hip Hip Pooh-Ray!"
- Written by Richard and Robert Sherman
- Performed by Sterling Holloway, Paul Winchell, Jon Walmsley, Junius Matthews, Ralph Wright, Clint Howard, Barbara Luddy, John Fiedler, and Hal Smith,
On Classic Disney: 60 Years of Musical Magic, this includes Heffalumps and Woozles on the green disc, Winnie the Pooh on the purple disc, and The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down on the orange disc. And on Disney's Greatest Hits, this also includes Winnie the Pooh on the green disc.
[edit] Differences Between the Pooh Stories & the film
Unlike most Disney animated films based on books, Winnie the Pooh is very accurate toward A.A. Milne's Pooh stories. Some small differences are listed here:
- Most of the stories are out of order. For instance, the introduction of Tigger does not happen before the flood.
- Gopher is not present in any of the original stories, which is alluded to by his frequent line "I'm not in the book."
- In the original books, Eeyore has a very heavy cockney accent. Because the film is American, he has an American accent.
- There is no reference to extract of malt.
- In the original stories, Heffalumps & Woozles are not associated with each other.
- Some stories are omitted, such as The Search for Small, Making a Trap for Heffalumps, etc.
- In the original stories, Pooh only wears his trademark shirt in winter time.
- Rabbit's friends & relations are not in the stories at all.
- The part where Roo and Tigger jump out of a tree took place in summer in the original stories and not in winter as in the movie.
- In the original stories, Piglet's sweater is green. In the movie, it's pink.
[edit] External links
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh at the Internet Movie Database
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