The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a 1977 American animated anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. Released in theaters on March 11, 1977, This is the 22nd animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon and the first movie in Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise. It is based upon the children's stories about the titular bear written by A.A. Milne, as well as the final chapter of the second story, The House at Pooh Corner.
The film is actually composed of material from three previously released animated shorts:
- Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
- Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)
- Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974)
The film and its characters have spawned an industry of sequels, television programs, clothing, books, and toys.
The film also inspired an attraction of the same name at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. A much more elaborate attraction, also based on the film, opened in Tokyo Disneyland as "Pooh's Hunny Hunt".
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh received a G rating by the MPAA. This is the twenty-second Disney animated movie to be rated as such in the US 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, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats and Robin Hood.
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- A copyright renewal for the film was registered on October 5, 2004.[1]
- This marks the second to last appearance of actor Ralph Wright. He would return one more time as the voice of Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore, released 6 years later.
- Along with The Rescuers, this is the first time since 1942 that Disney released two animated features in the same year.
- The film marks the first presented in a feature film and final appearance of actors Junius Matthews (Rabbit), Barbara Luddy (Kanga), Sterling Holloway (Winnie the Pooh), and Sebastian Cabot (The Narrator).
- Junius died of natural causes in 1978, Barbara died of lung cancer in 1979, Ralph died of a heart attack in 1983, Sterling later retired but died in 1992 of cardiac arrest, and Sebastian died of a stroke five months after the film was released.
- The film was the first in the main Disney canon to be a package film since The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, also being the last.
- The film is the last one to technically have any involvement from Walt Disney, as he was involved in production of Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. It opens with "Walt Disney Presents" as opposed to "Walt Disney Productions" as most Disney films in the 1970s had.
- Thus being a package film, Christopher Robin would be voiced by three different actors (four if counting his original singing voice in Honey Tree).
- Roo would also be voiced by two actors, one of them being a girl.
- The Dutch dub from 1991 uses the alternate 1983 opening score and theme from Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore. (Prior to this, all four short films were originally dubbed into Dutch in 1986 for TV, which use the original 1966 theme without a chorus.) A redub or third separate dub was rumored to be released around 1995-1997 as a different Dutch recording of the theme with its original instrumental has appeared online.
- Because of the negative criticisms from the British with the first packaged short Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, the version of the short that includes British child actor Jon Walmsley’s recordings of Christopher Robin was used for the film instead of the original version where Robin was voiced by American child actor Bruce Reitherman, though Reitherman’s original singing recordings were kept in.