The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
John Lounsbery
Produced by Wolfgang Reitherman
Written by Larry Clemmons
A.A. Milne (books)
Starring Sterling Holloway
Sebastian Cabot
Junius Matthews
John Fiedler
Paul Winchell
Bruce Reitherman
Hal Smith
Barbara Luddy
Howard Morris
Ralph Wright
Clint Howard
Jon Walmsley
Timothy Turner
Dori Whitaker
Music by Richard M. Sherman (songs)
Robert B. Sherman (songs)
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s) March 11, 1977
Running time 74 minutes
Language English
Preceded by Robin Hood (1973)
Followed by The Rescuers (1977)
IMDb profile

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 movie is based upon the Winnie the Pooh books by A. A. Milne.

The film is actually composed of material from three previously released animated shorts:

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 "Winnie the Pooh and the 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 off of 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 Many Adventures Of Winnie the Pooh was first released on VHS 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. Meanwhile, the individual shorts have also been released on their own.

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] Voice cast

Actor Role
Sterling Holloway Winnie the Pooh
Paul Winchell Tigger
Junius Matthews Rabbit
John Fiedler Piglet
Sebastian Cabot The Narrator
Bruce Reitherman (Honey Tree)
Jon Walmsley (Blustery Day)
Timothy Turner (Tigger Too!)		 Christopher Robin
Ralph Wright Eeyore
Hal Smith Owl
Howard Morris Gopher
Clint Howard (Honey Tree, Blustery Day)
Dori Whitaker (Tigger Too!)		 Roo
Barbara Luddy Kanga
Thurl Ravenscroft Singer

[edit] Trivia

2002 DVD cover of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
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2002 DVD cover of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
  • Every time multiple pages are turned in the book, the text on every page (except the start and finish pages) is exactly the same. In most cases, the text has little - if anything - to do with the existing story, although most of the text does come from the initial stories by A.A. Milne.
  • The text just before, or just after, a picture shown in the book is the same text as is read out by the Narrator.
  • Unusually for narrated stories, during the film, Tigger interacts directly with the narrator, begging him to help get Tigger down from the tree. In addition, Pooh and Piglet often speak directly to the narrator during the film. This interaction with the Narrator becomes standard fare in The Book of Pooh and some other Pooh films.
  • The original one-sheet poster for the film incorrectly touts it as "an all-new cartoon feature," when it is in fact a compliation of three already-exsisting shorts.
  • Four of Disney's theme parks have attractions based on the film. In Disneyland, Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, and Hong Kong Disneyland the attraction goes by the same name. In Tokyo Disneyland, it is Pooh's Hunny Hunt.

[edit] Soundtrack Listing

  • "Winnie the Pooh" Written by Richard and Robert Sherman Performed by the Disney Chorus
  • "Up, Down, Touch the Ground" Written by Richard and Robert Sherman Performed by Sterling Holloway
  • "Rumbly in my Tumbly" Written by Richard and Robert Sherman Performed by Sterling Holloway
  • "(I'm Just A) Little Black Raincloud" Written by Richard and Robert Sherman Performed by Sterling Holloway and Bruce Reitherman
  • "Mind Over Matter" Written by Richard and Robert Sherman Performed by Sterling Holloway, Bruce Reitherman, Junius Matthews, Ralph Wright, Clint Howard, Barbara Luddy, John Fiedler and Hal Smith
  • "What a Rather Blustery Day" Written by Richard and Robert Sherman Performed by Sterling Holloway
  • "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" Written by Richard and Robert Sherman Performed by Paul Winchell
  • "Heffalumps and Woozles" Written by Richard and Robert Sherman Performed by the Disney Chorus
  • "The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down" Written by Richard and Robert Sherman Performed by the Disney Chorus
  • "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

[edit] Goofs

  • In the book, the words don't match the story.

Pages 32-39: You don't get a buzzing noise, just buzzing and buzzing, without meaning something. The only reason for making a buzzing noise is because you're a bee. Page 40: Oh bother, I better go back. Pages 73-74: It rained and rained and rained. And Piglet so told himself If that he had never seen in all his life, never he had seen so much rain. Days and days and days. So the hundred-acre wood got floodier and floodier and the water got higher.

  • In the Honey Tree segment, Rabbit sit down and starts humming. The hum is in Pooh's voice.

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Disney theatrical animated features
Official canon (Walt Disney Animated Classics)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) • Pinocchio (1940) • Fantasia (1940) • Dumbo (1941) • Bambi (1942) • Saludos Amigos (1942) • The Three Caballeros (1944) • Make Mine Music (1946) • Fun and Fancy Free (1947) • Melody Time (1948) • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) • Cinderella (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • Peter Pan (1953) • Lady and the Tramp (1955) • Sleeping Beauty (1959) • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) • The Sword in the Stone (1963) • The Jungle Book (1967) • The Aristocats (1970) • Robin Hood (1973) • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) • The Rescuers (1977) • The Fox and the Hound (1981) • The Black Cauldron (1985) • The Great Mouse Detective (1986) • Oliver & Company (1988) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • The Rescuers Down Under (1990) • Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Aladdin (1992) • The Lion King (1994) • Pocahontas (1995) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) • Hercules (1997) • Mulan (1998) • Tarzan (1999) • Fantasia 2000 (1999) • The Emperor's New Groove (2000) • Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) • Lilo & Stitch (2002) • Treasure Planet (2002) • Brother Bear (2003) • Home on the Range (2004) • Chicken Little (2005) 
Upcoming:  Meet the Robinsons (2007) • American Dog (2008) • Rapunzel (2009) • The Frog Princess (20??)
Live-action films with animation

The Reluctant Dragon (1941) • Victory Through Air Power (1943) • Song of the South (1946) • So Dear to My Heart (1949) • Mary Poppins (1964) • Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) • Pete's Dragon (1977) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 
Upcoming:  Enchanted (2007)
DisneyToons Studio animated features

DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) • A Goofy Movie (1995) • Doug's 1st Movie (1999) • The Tigger Movie (2000) • Recess: School's Out (2001) • Return to Never Land (2002) • The Jungle Book 2 (2003) • Piglet's Big Movie (2003) • Teacher's Pet (2004) • Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
Other theatrical animated features

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) • James and the Giant Peach (1996) • Dinosaur (2000) 
See also: Pixar
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