The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on October 18, 1967. The 19th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon, the film is noted for being, along with The Aristocats (1970), the last film project to be approved by Walt Disney himself, who died during its production. (However, Walt did work on a few projects before his death as well, most notably the majority of Disney's animated films that came out in the 1970s.) This is also the first animated feature released after Walt Disney's death. The film was inspired by the stories about the feral child Mowgli from the book of the same name by Rudyard Kipling.

The film contains a number of classic songs, including "The Bare Necessities" and "I Wan'na Be Like You". Most of the songs were written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. The film was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. The film grossed over $73 million in the United States in its first release, and as much again from three re-releases.

The film stands as one of the most popular Disney movies of all time. In its initial release, the popularity was comparable to that of The Lion King or Frozen, making it a great influence for some of today's biggest names in animation (such as Andreas Deja and Brad Bird). However, Disney wouldn't receive a similar success until The Little Mermaid in 1989. Though it should be noted that Disney did have a few successful films during that time period, most notably The Rescuers in 1977 and The Great Mouse Detective in 1986. After the film's success, Disney released two live-action remakes and a theatrical sequel.

Rating[]

The Jungle Book received a G rating by the MPAA. This is the nineteenth Disney animated movie to be rated as such in the USA after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Sword in the Stone.

Credits[]

The Jungle Book Credits

Gallery[]

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Trivia[]

A copyright renewal for the film was registered on August 29, 1995.^[1] The copyright to the story it is based on was also renewed in the U.S.,^[2] but it is now in the public domain.
This is the first animated feature released after Walt Disney's death, it was also one of the final films Disney helped make before his passing.
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.
Originally the film was going to be darker in tone and somewhat closer to Kipling's works. However, Walt Disney was not interested in the book's dark tone and instead wanted a more lighthearted character-driven musical in which Mowgli has to accept his inevitable manhood.
In the game files for Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, there exists locations for a deleted world based on The Jungle Book. These location are available for exploration via cheats.
Shere Khan was voiced by three voice actors: George Sanders did the speaking, Bill Lee provided the singing, and Jimmy MacDonald provided the roars for Shere Khan.
The voice actors who did the characters from Winnie the Pooh & the Honey Tree also did the voices for the characters in this film. Bruce Reitherman who did the voice for Christopher Robin (albeit in American accent), did the voice of Mowgli. Sebastian Cabot, who did the voice of the narrator in that same featurette, did the voice of Bagheera. Sterling Holloway, who was the voice of Winnie the Pooh, did the voice of Kaa. And Hal Smith, who was the voice of Owl, did the voice of one of the elephants. In addition to Hal Smith doing the voice of Owl, he also did the voice of Winnie the Pooh, taking over for Sterling Holloway starting from 1981 to 1983.
This film was rated G by the Motion Picture Association of America. It was the last Disney animated film to include the 1945 MPAA logo, as well as the last animated Disney film to be released during the Hays Office Code before its elimination in 1968.
This film was personally overseen by Walt Disney before he passed away.
Following Cinderella, The Jungle Book is the second Disney film to have the most live-action adaptations made by Walt Disney Pictures with three live-action films (Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story, and The Jungle Book (2016 film)).
This is the tenth Disney animated classic to have the 2006 Walt Disney Pictures logo with just Disney at the end of the movie, on current releases.
This is Disney animator Andreas Deja's favorite film. He has cited it as what inspired him to become an animator.
The original poster was featured in Ralph Breaks the Internet in the Oh My Disney website.
King Louie's laugh when Baloo tickles him is actually reused from Br'er Rabbit's laugh from the "Laughing Place" sequence of Song of the South.
In 1970, San Marino issued a set of ten postage stamps featuring Disney characters. The Jungle Book was featured on the stamp with the highest denomination.^[3]
This is the first program to air on Disney Channel UK on October 1st, 1995.