The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)

Directors:

John Lounsbery
Wolfgang Reitherman

Writers:

A.A. Milne (books)
Larry Clemmons (story) ...
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Release Date:

11 March 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical

Tagline:

Hip Hip Poohray!

Plot:

A collection of animated shorts based on the stories and characters by A. A. Milne.

Plot Keywords:

Bear | Flood | Tiger | Cartoon Gopher | Dream Sequence

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Sebastian Cabot	...	Narrator (voice)
Junius Matthews	...	Rabbit (voice)
Barbara Luddy	...	Kanga (voice)
Howard Morris	...	Gopher (voice)
John Fiedler	...	Piglet (voice)
Ralph Wright	...	Eeyore (voice)
Hal Smith	...	Owl (voice)
Clint Howard	...	Roo (Honey Tree and Blustery Day) (voice)
Bruce Reitherman	...	Christopher Robin (Honey Tree) (voice)
Jon Walmsley	...	Christopher Robin (Blustery Day) (voice)
Timothy Turner	...	Christopher Robin (Tigger Too) (voice)
Dori Whitaker	...	Roo (Tigger Too) (voice)
Sterling Holloway	...	Winnie the Pooh (voice)
Paul Winchell	...	Tigger (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Thurl Ravenscroft	...	Singer (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
John Lounsbery
Wolfgang Reitherman

Writing credits
A.A. Milne		(books)
Larry Clemmons		(story) &
Ralph Wright		(story) &
Vance Gerry		(story) &
Xavier Atencio		(story) &
Ken Anderson		(story) &
Julius Svendsen		(story) &
Ted Berman		(story) &
Eric Cleworth		(story)
Winston Hibler		(story supervisor "Blustery Day")

Produced by
Wolfgang Reitherman	....	producer

Original Music by
Buddy Baker

Film Editing by
Tom Acosta
James Melton

Production Management
Don A. Duckwall	....	production manager (as Don Duckwall)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Dan Alguire	....	assistant director
Edward Hansen	....	assistant director (as Ed Hansen)
Richard Rich	....	assistant director

Art Department
Ernest Shepard	....	book illustrator (as Ernest H. Shepard)

Sound Department
Robert O. Cook	....	sound
Herb Taylor	....	sound

Visual Effects by
Jason Richardson	....	restoration artist (restored version)

Animation Department
Hal Ambro	....	animator
Dale Baer	....	animator
Dale Barnhart	....	layout artist
Don Bluth	....	animator
Eric Cleworth	....	animator
Basil Davidovich	....	layout artist
Al Dempster	....	background artist
Andy Gaskill	....	animator (as Andrew Gaskill)
Gary Goldman	....	animator
Don Griffith	....	layout artist
Ann Guenther	....	background artist
Joe Hale	....	layout artist
Fred Hellmich	....	animator
Ollie Johnston	....	animator: "Winnie the Pooh", "Piglet"
Milt Kahl	....	animator: "Tigger"
Bill Keil	....	animator
Hal King	....	animator
Eric Larson	....	animator
Bill Layne	....	background artist
John Lounsbery	....	animator
Burny Mattinson	....	animator
Cliff Nordberg	....	animator
John Pomeroy	....	animator: "Rabbit"
Art Riley	....	background artist
Sylvia Roemer	....	layout artist
Dick Sebast	....	animator (as Richard Sebast)
John Sibley	....	animator
Walt Stanchfield	....	animator
Art Stevens	....	animator
Frank Thomas	....	animator: "Winnie the Pooh" and "Piglet"
Chuck Williams	....	animator

Music Department
Buddy Baker	....	conductor
Evelyn Kennedy	....	music editor
Richard M. Sherman	....	songs: music and lyrics by
Robert B. Sherman	....	songs: music and lyrics by
Edmundo Santos	....	lyrics: Spanish version (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Walt Disney Productions

Distributors

• Buena Vista Distribution Company (1977) (USA) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE) (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE) (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1980) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Walt Disney Home Video (1982) (USA) (video)
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (1996) (USA) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

74 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone Sound Recording)

Certification:

Australia:G | UK:U | USA:G (Approved No. 27863) | West Germany:o.Al. | Brazil:Livre | Iceland:L | Sweden:7 (video rating) | South Korea:All | Singapore:G

Filming Locations:

Walt Disney Studios, 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, USA

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

Last film work for Barbara Luddy, Sebastian Cabot, and Junius Matthews.

Goofs:

Continuity: The storybook that opens at the beginning of the film has the title "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree" (since it was created specifically for that short), but only reads "Winnie the Pooh" when it closes in the end.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator:This could be the room of any small boy, but it just happens to belong to a boy named Christopher Robin. Like most small boys, Christopher Robin has toy animals to play with, and they all live together in a wonderful world of make-believe. But his best friend is a bear called Winnie the Pooh, or Pooh, for short. Now, Pooh had some very unusual adventures, and they all happened right here in the Hundred-Acre Wood.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Hewy's Animated Movie Reviews: Winnie the Pooh (#4.8)" (2011)

Soundtrack:

Rumbly in My Tumbly

Wonderful evocations of the Pooh world, closely based on the originals

This film is actually comprised of three earlier featurettes ("Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree", "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day", "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, Too"), the first three of the four Disney efforts at filming the world of Winnie The Pooh which (the fourth was "A Day for Eyeore") that were closely based on specific A.A. Milne stories, and were excellently done. Despite not being drawn the way E. H. Sheppard originally illustrated them (which is, perhaps a loss), the characters are played with great respect for the way they were written. They have been Americanized in their speech, and they don't rely so much on the British comedy of manners that Milne mined so successfully, but they are quite solidly the same "people" they were in the books. Sterling Holloway is a marvelous Pooh whose his furry voice seems to convey both his outer softness and his mental fuzziness. Paul Winchell's Tigger is probably an improvement of the original, simply because words alone could never really convey Tigger's manic exuberance the way Winchell's performance does. Ralph Wright's Eyeore is a delight, and the other characters hold their own and uphold their tradition completely.

The one completely un-Milne touch that has been added seems to me entirely acceptable, too. This is the occasional presence, in the story, of the Narrator, whose intervention helps move the characters through some of the more difficult moments. It is a touch of gentleness that is not cloying at all, and is occasionally rather witty.

These stories are genuinely wholesome without being sticky. If you want to feed your kids entertainment that's truly funny, has decent human values, is completely free of potty jokes, and will stand up for 6-year-olds yet won't scare three-year-olds, it doesn't get much better than this.