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A short scene was added to bring the film to a close; originally made during the production ofBlustery Day (based on the presence ofJon Walmsley as Christopher Robin), and based on the final chapter ofThe House at Pooh Corner, Christopher Robin must leave behind the Hundred Acre Wood to startschool. The Narrator concludes that wherever Christopher Robin goes, Pooh will always be waiting.
Later featurette
Six years after the release ofThe Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Disney commissioned a fourth featurette based on the stories.Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore premiered in theaters on March 11, 1983, but was not originally connected to the preceding films in any manner. It has since been added to home video releases ofThe Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was the last film in the Disney canon in whichWalt Disney had personal involvement, since one of the shorts (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree) was released during his lifetime and he was involved in the production ofBlustery Day. It was always Walt Disney's intention to create a feature film, but he decided to make shorts instead — after production had begun — to familiarize U.S. audiences with the characters. All three shorts, as well as future feature films, boast classic songs by theSherman Brothers including "Winnie the Pooh" and "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers".
The character Gopher, which does not appear in the Milne stories, was created because Disney wanted an all-American character that could appeal to the children, and also add an element of comedy.[1]
For the characterPiglet, hand gestures and other movements were used by the animators to create expressiveness, since he (and Pooh) had the appearance of dolls or stuffed animals with relatively simple button eyes.[2] The scene where Rabbit deals with Pooh's rump being part of the "decor of his home" was not in the original book, but was reportedly contemplated by Disney when he first read the book.[3]
Release
Reception
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh holds a unanimous critic approval rating of100% onRotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews, with an average of 8.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Perhaps the most faithful of Disney's literary adaptations, this cute, charming collection of episodes captures the spirit of A.A. Milne's classic stories."[4] Film critic Leonard Maltin called the original Pooh featurettes "gems"; he also noted that the artwork resembles the book illustrations and that the particular length of these featurettes meant that the filmmakers did not have to "compress or protract their script."[5]
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was first released on VHS,Betamax,CED videorecord, andlaserdisc on August 15, 1981.[7] In 1996, it was re-released on VHS as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection series and included video footage of the making which was shown before the movie starts (as did the first UK VHS release in 1997). It was released onDVD for the first time on May 7, 2002 as aTHX certified 25th Anniversary Edition, with digitally restored picture and sound.[8] The individual shorts had also been released on their own on VHS in the 1990s.
The 25th-anniversary edition DVD includes, among other bonus features: "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: The Story Behind the Masterpiece", which documents the history of the books and their initial film adaptations; the shortWinnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (1983); and interviews with animatorsOllie Johnston,Frank Thomas, andBurny Mattinson, as well as theSherman Brothers,Paul Winchell, and others.[8] Digital Media FX reviewer Shannon Muir stated that the audio and video quality of the film on this DVD was very high.[9]
The "Friendship Edition" DVD was released on June 19, 2007. All of the special features from the previous "25th Anniversary Edition" DVD were recycled, with the only new addition being an episode of Playhouse Disney's computer-animated seriesMy Friends Tigger & Pooh. The DVD re-release coincides with the 30th anniversary of the release of the film.[10]
The Blu-ray version was released for the first time along with the third DVD release on August 27, 2013. The bonus features included aMini Adventures of Winnie the Pooh segment, "Geniuses" and the only bonus feature that was kept from the previous DVD releases was the"Winnie the Pooh" theme song music video performed byCarly Simon.[11]
^Maltin, Leonard (1987).Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons. New American Library. p. 76.ISBN0-452-25993-2.
^"AFI's 10 Top 10 Nominees"(PDF). Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. RetrievedAugust 19, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
