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By December 1967, The Jungle Book was released in theaters; [74] some bookings were in a double feature format with a live-action film Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar (1967). [ 75 ] Produced on a budget of $4 million, [ 1 ] The Jungle Book was a massive box-office success, grossing domestic rentals of $11.5 million by 1968. [ 76 ]
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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.com- 2 min
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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.
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Oct 18, 2022 · The Jungle Book: Alive with Magic, inspired by the 2016 live-action retelling, took place on the Discovery River Lagoon before the debut of Rivers of Light. And even earlier in the park’s history, the Theater in the Wild (now home to Finding Nemo: The Big Blue…and Beyond) once housed a stage show called Journey into the Jungle Book.
The Jungle Book (1967) Rating: G. Release Date: October 18, 1967. Genre: Action-Adventure, Animation, Family, Musical. Now for the first time ever on Blu-ray™ with glorious digital high definition, Disney’s Jumpin' Jungle Classic has never looked so lush or sounded so good! Beloved characters, swinging music and new behind-the-scenes bonus ...
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The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed and produced by Jon Favreau, written by Justin Marks and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a live-action animated remake of Disney's 1967 animated film The Jungle Book , [ 1 ] [ 6 ] which itself is loosely based on Rudyard Kipling 's story collection The Jungle Book .
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This article is about the 1967 animated film. For the 2016 live-action film, see The Jungle Book (2016 film). 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 ...
