The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Short description
Set in the Hundred Acre Wood, this animated film follows Winnie the Pooh, a bear with a fondness for honey, and his friends Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger, Eeyore and Christopher Robin as they share everyday adventures in their forest home. The feature gathers three earlier short films about the characters and links them with new material, drawing on the stories and designs of A. A. Milne and Ernest Shepard.
The film was released in 1977 by Walt Disney Productions as the studio's 22nd animated classic, running 74 minutes. Wolfgang Reitherman directed and produced it, placing it between Robin Hood and The Rescuers in his run of features; John Lounsbery also directed, and the voice cast includes Sterling Holloway as Pooh, John Fiedler as Piglet, Junius Matthews as Rabbit, Paul Winchell as Tigger and Ralph Wright as Eeyore.
On IMDb it holds 7.5 from around 43,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.2 from about 1,200 votes, showing a durable following across generations. A critics' rating of 8.6 from 19 reviews sits above both audience scores, indicating strong critical standing for this entry in the studio's animated output.
What's left behind the scenes
- The last film that Walt Disney (1901-1966) himself participated in creating.
- When Walt Disney acquired the rights to Winnie-the-Pooh along with the other characters and storylines in 1961, he learned that all of this was not as well known to Americans as it was to the British.
- The film is based on three classic short Disney cartoons – "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree" (1966), "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" (1968), and "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too" (1974).
- Initially, Christopher Robin was voiced by different actors in all the short films. In this film, John Walmsley re-voiced Robin’s speech in "The Honey Tree" (it was originally performed by Bruce Reitherman).
- Tigger's voice on screen is that of Dummy Sam – a character created by television actor and voice artist, inventor, and ventriloquist Paul Winchell (1922-2005).
- All background objects are outlined to better match the style of drawings by Ernest Howard Shepard (1879-1996), famous for his illustrations for Alan Milne’s "Winnie-the-Pooh" (1882-1956).
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