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The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. Based very loosely on the "Mowgli" stories from Rudyard Kipling 's 1894 book of the same name, it is the final animated feature film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production [3][4][5].
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Mowgli (Bruce Reitherman) is found in a basket as a baby in the deep jungles of Madhya Pradesh, India by Bagheera (Sebastian Cabot), the black panther. He promptly takes him to an Indian Wolf who has just had cubs. She raises him along with her own cubs and Mowgli soon becomes well acquainted with jungle life. Ten years later, Mowgli visits the wol...
Bruce Reitherman as MowgliPhil Harris as BalooSebastian Cabot as BagheeraLouis Prima as King LouieDevelopment
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book first caught Walt Disney's attention in late 1930s. In April of 1962, after ten years of negotiations with the estate of late director Alexander Korda, who had made his own live-action version of the tales in 1942, Walt finally acquired the rights to the film adaptation; however, its production did not start until 1963, as studio neared completion on The Sword in the Stone. At this time Bill Peet claimed that "we [the animation department] can do more interes...
Writing
Peet decided to follow the dramatic, dark, and sinister tone of Kipling's book and wrote an early treatment with little to no supervision, as he had done in One Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Sword in the Stone, along with character designs as well as the idea for the song "The Bare Necessities". The original story tells about the struggles between animals and man. Since the novel is very episodic, with Mowgli going back and forth from the jungle to the Man-Village, Peet made the story mu...
Casting
Many familiar voices inspired the animators in their creation of the characters and helped them shape their personalities. This use of familiar voices for key characters was a rarity in Disney's past films. The staff was shocked to hear that a wise-cracking comedian, Phil Harris was going to be in a Kipling film. Disney suggested Harris after meeting him at a party. Harris improvised most of his lines, as he considered the scripted lines "didn't feel natural". After Harris was cast, Disneylan...
Critical reaction
The Jungle Book received an outpouring of positive reviews upon release, undoubtedly influenced by a nostalgic reaction to the passing of Walt Disney. Time noted that the film strayed far from the Kipling stories, but "the result is thoroughly delightful...it is the happiest possible way to remember Walt Disney." The New York Times called it "a perfectly dandy cartoon feature," and Life magazine referred to it as "the best thing of its kind since Dumbo, another short, bright, unscary, and ble...
The song "The Bare Necessities" was nominated for Best Song at the 40th Academy Awards, losing to "Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Gregory Peck lobbied extensively for this film to be nominated for Best Picture, but was unsuccessful. It was not until 1991 when Disney's Beauty and the ...
The score features eight original songs: 1. "Jungle Book Overture" - (instrumental) 2. "Colonel Hathi's March" - Colonel Hathi and the elephants 3. "The Bare Necessities" - Baloo and Mowgli 4. "I Wan'na Be Like You" - King Louie and Baloo 5. "The Bare Necessities (reprise)" - Mowgli 6. "Colonel Hathi's March (reprise)" - Colonel Hathi and the eleph...
Walt Disneytold his writers to not read the book. As a result there are a number of differences with what little resemblance there is most likely being due to vague memories of having read the text long ago and memories of the 1942 film, which previously adapted the Mowgli stories as well. 1. Rama is simply Father Wolf in the Mowgli Stories. His na...
Elements of The Jungle Book were recycled in the later Disney feature film Robin Hood due to that film's limited budget, such as Baloo being inspiration for Little John (who not only was a bear, but also voiced by Phil Harris). Many characters from the film appear in anthropomorphic form in the 1990-1991 animated series TaleSpin. Between 1996 and 1...
A copyright renewal for the film was registered on August 29, 1995. The copyright to the story it is based on was also renewed in the U.S.,but it is now in the public domain.This is the first animated feature released after Walt Disney's death.This film is extremely popular in Germany and remains the highest-grossing animated film in that country.This is the first Disney Animated Feature to have a non-white protagonist and has been widely praised for South Asian representation.The Jungle Book (1967 film) on WikipediaThe Jungle Book on IMDbThe Jungle Book on Disney.comThe Jungle Book at Wikisource. The Jungle Book is an 1894 collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Most stories are set in a forest in India ...
- Rudyard Kipling
- 1894
The Jungle Book: Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. With Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Bruce Reitherman, George Sanders. Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.
- Wolfgang Reitherman
- 1 min
The Jungle Book: Directed by Jon Favreau. With Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther Bagheera and free-spirited bear Baloo.
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- Animation, Action, Adventure
- Jon Favreau
- 2016-04-15
The Jungle Book is a Disney media franchise that commenced in 1967 with the theatrical release of the 1967 feature film. It is based on Rudyard Kipling 's works of the same name . The franchise includes a 2003 sequel to the animated film and three live-action films produced by Walt Disney Pictures .
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Apr 25, 2016 · Studio insiders say one of the release dates announced Monday will almost surely go to The Jungle Book 2, which is already in the works, even as Warner Bros. preps its own Jungle Book for Oct. 19 ...
