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.
After the film's success, Disney released two live-action remakes and a theatrical sequel.
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.
==Plot==
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 wolves and gets his face licked eagerly when he arrives. While Bagheera and the wolves are pleased with how content the boy is with jungle life, they are also aware that he may have to return to his own kind eventually once he is able to take care of himself. That moment comes one night when the wolf pack elders gather at Council Rock, having learned that Shere Khan (George Sanders), a man-eating Bengal tiger, has returned to their part of the jungle. They realize that Mowgli must leave the pack, as the tiger is notorious for his prejudice toward humans (due to his fear of guns and fire), and will kill the boy and anyone who tries to protect him. Bagheera steps in, offering to take him to a "man-village" where he will find refuge from the tiger, to which the council agrees.
They leave that very night, but Mowgli is determined to stay in the jungle, as he is against the idea of abandoning the only home he has ever known for a village of strangers (being unaware of his own humanity as a result of never meeting other humans), and is certain that he can take Shere Khan. They spend the night on a large tree, where they encounter Kaa (Sterling Holloway), a python who hypnotizes Mowgli and wraps him in his coils in order to eat him. Bagheera stops him, and he and Mowgli go to sleep.
The next morning, Mowgli tries to join the Indian elephant patrol led by Colonel Hathi (J. Pat O'Malley). Bagheera finds Mowgli and they argue; Mowgli runs away from Bagheera. The boy soon meets up with the fun-loving bear Baloo (Phil Harris), who shows Mowgli the fun of having a care-free life and promises not to take him to the man village (as Baloo believes that the villagers there will "ruin" the boy and "make a man out of him").
Mowgli now wants to stay in the jungle more than ever. Before long, Mowgli is caught by a gang of monkeys and taken to their leader, King Louie (Louis Prima) the orangutan, who makes a deal with Mowgli that if he tells him the secret of making fire like a human, then he will make it so he can stay in the jungle ("I Wan'na Be Like You"). However, since he was not raised by humans, Mowgli doesn't know how to make fire. Bagheera and Baloo arrive at the palace, unseen and try to plan a way to rescue Mowgli, but the catchy beat of the song distracts Baloo and he wanders off dancing. Soon, however, he appears dressed in banana skins and coconut shells posing as a female orangutan which fools the King. But soon, Baloo's disguise is revealed and there begins a mad chase between the monkeys and Baloo and Bagheera over Mowgli. The King accidentally knocks down a pillar and holds up the temple the best he can until he struggles when Baloo begins to tickle him frantically under the arms. The monkeys manage to stop Baloo's tickling but end up bouncing the king onto the other pillar instead, causing the temple to collapse in a rumble. Mowgli is rescued from King Louie by Bagheera and Baloo. Bagheera explains to Baloo that the jungle isn't safe when Shere Khan is around. As morning arrives, Baloo reluctantly explains to Mowgli that the Man Village is best for him, but Mowgli accuses him of breaking his promise and runs away in the deepest part of the jungle. Bagheera (after Baloo explains to him) then finds the Elephant Patrol and tells Hathi of Mowgli running away with Shere Khan himself overhearing. Hathi then organizes a special search mission for all his herd. Later, Kaa hypnotizes Mowgli into a deep and peaceful sleep and traps him in his coils again (after tricking him that Mowgli can trust him). Thanks to the intervention of Shere Khan, Mowgli escapes before Kaa can eat him.
He encounters a group of solemn vultures (J. Pat O'Malley, Digby Wolfe, Lord Tim Hudson, and Chad Stuart), who closely resemble The Beatles, and they say they'll be his friend. The vultures argue and continually sidetrack Mowgli with their pointless arguments. When they see how sad Mowgli is they cheer him up with a song (That's What Friends are for). Shere Khan appears shortly after and challenges Mowgli to a fight. He tries to fight back, but soon loses his nerve upon seeing how truly frightening the tiger is. Baloo then rushes to the rescue, but is knocked unconscious and Mowgli ties a flaming branch onto Shere Khan's tail in order to get rid of the ruthless tiger. Baloo then wakes up and he and Bagheera take Mowgli to the edge of a man-village, but Mowgli is still hesitant to go in. His mind soon changes when a young girl from the village comes down by the riverside to fetch water. After noticing the boy, she "accidentally" drops her water pot, and Mowgli retrieves it for her and follows her into the man village. Realizing that the man-village may not be as bad as he thought, Mowgli chooses to stay there. While initially saddened by this, Baloo and Bagheera then accept Mowgli's departure and head back into the jungle together.
==Cast==
*Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli
*Phil Harris as Baloo
*Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera
*Louis Prima as King Louie
*George Sanders as Shere Khan
*Sterling Holloway as Kaa
*J. Pat O'Malley as Colonel Hathi, Buzzie
*Verna Felton as Winifred
*Clint Howard as Junior
*Chad Stuart as Flaps
*Lord Tim Hudson as Dizzy
*John Abbott as Akela
*Ben Wright as Rama
*Darleen Carr as The Girl
===Uncredited===
*Digby Wolfe as Ziggy
*Hal Smith as the Slob Elephant, Monkeys
*Ralph Wright as the Gloomy Elephant
*Leo De Lyon as Flunkey
*Bill Skiles and Pete Henderson as Monkeys
*The Mellomen as Colonel Hathi's crew
==Production==
===Development===
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 interesting animal characters" and suggested that The Jungle Book could be used for the studio's next film. Disney agreed, however, after the disappointing reaction to The Sword in the Stone, he decided to become more involved in the story than he had been with the past two films.
===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 much more straightforward; felt that Mowgli returning to the Man-Village should be the ending for the film. Following suggestions, Peet also created two original characters: The human girl for which Mowgli falls in love, as the animators considered that falling in love would be the best excuse for Mowgli to leave the jungle; and Louie, king of the monkeys. Louie was a less comical character, enslaving Mowgli trying to get the boy to teach him to make fire. The orangutan would also show a plot point borrowed from The Second Jungle Book, gold and jewels under his ruins - after Mowgli got to the man village, a poacher would drag the boy back to the ruins in search of the treasure. However, disappointed by the reception of The Sword in the Stone, Disney was determined to be more involved within the story than he had been in the past two films that were written by Peet, with his nephew Roy E. Disney saying that "[he] certainly influenced everything about it. (...) With Jungle Book, he obviously got hooked on the jungle and the characters that lived there." Disney soon became critical of Peet's original treatment and how the story turned out, as he felt it was too dark for family viewing and insisted on script changes. Peet refused, and after a long argument, Peet left the Disney studio in January 1964.
Disney then assigned Larry Clemmons as his new writer and one of the four story men for the film, giving Clemmons a copy of Kipling's book, and telling him: "The first thing I want you to do is not to read it." Clemmons still looked at the novel and thought it was too disjointed and without continuity, needing adaptations to fit a film script. Clemmons wanted to start , with some flashbacks afterward, but then Disney said to focus on doing the storyline more straight - "Let's do the meat of the picture. Let's establish the characters. Let's have fun with it. Although much of Bill Peet's work was discarded, the personalities of the characters remained in the final film. This was because Disney felt that the story should be kept simple, and the characters should drive the story. Disney took an active role in the story meetings, acting out each role and helping to explore the emotions of the characters, help create gags and develop emotional sequences. Clemmons would write a rough script with an outline for most sequences. The story artists then discussed how to fill the scenes, including the comedic gags to employ. The script also tried to incorporate how the voice actors molded their characters and interacted with each other.
The Jungle Book also marks the last animated film from the company to have Disney's personal touches, before his death on December 15, 1966.
===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, Disneyland Records president Jimmy Johnson suggested Disney to get Louie Prima as King Louie, as he "felt that Louis would be great as foil". Walt also cast other prominent actors such as George Sanders as Shere Khan and Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera. Additionally, he cast regular Disney voices such as Sterling Holloway as Kaa, J. Pat O'Malley as Colonel Hathi and Buzzie the Vulture, and Verna Felton as Hathi's wife. This was her last film before she died. David Bailey was originally cast as Mowgli, but his voice changed during production, leading Bailey to no longer fit the "young innocence of Mowgli's character" which the producers were aiming for. Thus director Wolfgang Reitherman cast his son Bruce Reitherman, who had just voiced Christopher Robin in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. The animators shot footage of Bruce as a guide for the character's performance. Child actress Darlene Carr was going around singing in the studio when composers the Sherman Brothers asked her to record a demo of Shanti's song "My Own Home". Carr's performance impressed Disney enough for him to cast her as Shanti.
Disney created new characters in the form of the vultures, who bear a physical and vocal resemblance to The Beatles, including the signature mop-top haircuts. It was also planned to have the members of the band to both voice the characters and sing their song, "That's What Friends are For". However, scheduling conflicts, added to John Lennon reacting badly, lead to the idea being discarded. The casting of the vultures still brought a musician, Chad Stuart of the duo Chad & Jeremy. In earlier drafts of the scene the vultures had a near-sighted Rhinoceros friend named Rocky, who was to be voiced by Frank Fontaine, however, Walt decided to cut the character for feeling that the film had already much action with the monkeys and vultures.
===Animation===
While many of the later Disney feature films had animators being responsible for single characters, in The Jungle Book the animators were in charge of whole sequences, since many have characters interacting with one another. The animation was done using , with character design, lead by Ken Anderson, employing rough, artistic edges in contrast to the round animals seen in productions such as Dumbo. Anderson also decided to make Shere Khan resemble his voice actor, George Sanders. Backgrounds were hand-painted - with exception of the waterfall, mostly consisting of footage of the - and sometimes scenery was used in both foreground and bottom to create a notion of depth. Following one of Reitherman's trademarks of reusing animation of his previous films, the wolf cubs are based on dogs from 101 Dalmatians. Also the chase in King Louie's ruins is reused from the chase scene in The Wind in the Willows segment of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Animator Milt Kahl based Bagheera and Shere Kahn's movements on live-action felines, which he saw in two Disney productions, A Tiger Walks and the "Jungle Cat" episode of True-Life Adventures. Baloo was also based on footage of bears, even incorporating the animal's penchant for scratching. Since Kaa has no limbs, its design received big expressive eyes and parts of Kaa's body did the action that normally would be done with hands. The monkeys' dance during "I Wan'na Be Like You" was partially inspired by a performance Louis Prima did with his band at Disney's soundstage to convince Walt Disney to cast him.
==Releases==
The Jungle Book was released in October 1967, just 10 months after Walt's death. It was a success, earning $13 million in just its domestic release, mostly due to the popularity of its musical numbers. The film was subsequently re-released in theaters in 1978, 1984, and 1990. The film made its VHS home video debut in Mexico on October 31, 1987, twenty years after its original release. This 1987 release was dubbed in Spanish. The Jungle Book was released in the United States on VHS in 1991 and Laserdisc in 1992 as part of the Walt Disney Classics product line. The American version was subsequently re-released in 1997 on Laserdisc and VHS as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection for the film's 30th anniversary; this transfer had washed-out colors. A Limited Issue DVD was released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment in 1999. The DVD was barebones and used the 1997 Laserdisc transfer with analog video. The film was released once again as a 2-disc Platinum Edition DVD on October 2, 2007, to commemorate its 40th anniversary. The Platinum Edition presents the film for the first time in 1.75:1 widescreen aspect ratio and also includes brand new luscious and rich colors. This is the first Disney release titled "Platinum Edition" in the UK instead of "Special Edition". The film was released on Blu-ray on February 11, 2014. On February 11, a petition was made to The Walt Disney Company to restore the original aspect ratio of the film to the Diamond Edition release. The other request the petition stated was to release the Blu-ray/DVD combo pack like its other Diamond Edition predecessors had before it. The petition has been proven effective by multiple people who feel the film's current release was not up to par with other Disney releases.
The film was re-released on Blu-ray/DVD on March 26, 2019 as a Movie Club Limited Release (with the same discs as the Diamond Edition, but without Digital HD).
Once more, the film was re-released on Blu-ray/DVD/Digital on February 22, 2022 for its 55th Anniversary.
==Reception==
===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 blessedly uncultivated cartoon." Some negative reviews came from , who said the film was "devoid of mood or atmosphere." Variety's review was generally positive, but they stated that "the story development is restrained" and that younger audiences "may squirm at times."
Retrospective reviews were also positive, with the film's animation, characters, and music receiving much praise throughout the years. In 1990, when the film had its last theatrical re-release, Entertainment Weekly considered that The Jungle Book "isn't a classic Walt Disney film on the order of, say, Cinderella or Pinocchio, but it's one of Disney's liveliest and funniest", while the Los Angeles Times thought the film's crew was "near the height of their talents" and the resulting film "remains a high-spirited romp that will delight children--and parents weary of action films with body counts that exceed their box-office grosses." In 2010, Empire described the film as one that "gets pretty much everything right", regarding that the vibrant animation and catchy songs overcame the plot deficiencies.
Equally harsh criticism came from Rudyard Kipling's own daughter Elsie Kipling-Baimbridge, who was still alive at the time of the Disney film's production and release. In his book Chuck Jones Conversations, Jones, who had done some animated adaptations of his own of Kipling's work, had met and interviewed Elsie Kipling, who absolutely hated the Disney film for being an adaptation in name only. She took particular offense to Mowgli's name, insisting that it was supposed to be pronounced "Mauwgli", which was never pronounced any other way until Disney's version. Moreover, she added, "I hate Walter Disney," which was the only time Jones heard anyone call him "Walter" and not "Walt".
==Awards==
The song "The Bare Necessities" was nominated for Best Song at the , losing to "Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle. 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 Beast that an animated film would be nominated for Best Picture.
; Lists
* - Nominated
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**"The Bare Necessities" - Nominated
**"I Wan'na Be Like You" - Nominated
* - Nominated
* - Nominated Animated Film
==Music==
The score features eight original songs:
*"Jungle Book Overture" - (instrumental)
*"Colonel Hathi's March" - Colonel Hathi and the elephants
*"The Bare Necessities" - Baloo and Mowgli
*"I Wan'na Be Like You" - King Louie and Baloo
*"The Bare Necessities (reprise)" - Mowgli
*"Colonel Hathi's March (reprise)" - Colonel Hathi and the elephants
*"Trust in Me" - Kaa
*"That's What Friends are For" - The Vultures, Mowgli, and Shere Khan
*"My Own Home" - Shanti
*"The Bare Necessities (final)" - Baloo and Bagheera
The film's overture was originally written for the 1964 New York World's Fair as one of the musical tracks for the International Gardens miniatures display for the Ford Pavilion, where it was titled "Serengeti Serenade".
Longtime Disney collaborator Terry Gilkyson was brought in to write the songs for the film. Gilkyson delivered several complete songs, but Walt Disney felt that his efforts were too dark. The Sherman Brothers were brought in to do a complete rewrite, on the condition that they did not read Rudyard Kipling's book. The only piece of Gilkyson's work which survived to the final film was his upbeat tune "The Bare Necessities", which was liked by the rest of the film crew.
The song "Trust in Me" is based on a song entitled "Land of Sand" which had been written by the Sherman Brothers for, but not used in, Mary Poppins. Part of "Bare Necessities" was remixed for the theme song of its short-lived 1990s TV spin-off, Jungle Cubs. In the scene where Bagheera, the vultures, and Mowgli believe that Baloo is dead as well as Bagheera funerals Baloo, Paul J. Smith's organ score from Walt Disney's first film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is heard from the scene where the seven Dwarfs mourn Snow White on her bed before she is put into the glass coffin.
"We're Your Friends" was originally conceived as a rock and roll song, sung by the quartet of vultures and an original character, Rocky the Rhino. The vultures were even designed based on The Beatles, with mop-top haircuts and Liverpudlian accents, and would be voiced by the band, which did not come into fruition due to problems with their schedule. During production, first Rocky was cut, then Disney decided the 60's style rock would cause the song to be considered dated later, leading "We're Your Friends" to be changed to the barbershop quartet that appears in the final film. Bill Lee of The Mellomen sung Shere Kahn's part, due to George Sanders not being available.
On Classic Disney: 60 Years of Musical Magic, this includes "Colonel Hathi's March" on the red disc, "The Bare Necessities" on the blue disc, "I Wan'na Be Like You" and "Trust in Me" on the green disc, "That's What Friends Are For" on the purple disc, and "My Own Home" on the orange disc.
The Disney's Greatest Hits collection includes the song "I Wan'na Be Like You" on the blue disc and "The Bare Necessities" on the green disc.
===Deleted songs===
All of the below songs were the original songs by Terry Gilkyson.
*"Brothers All" – Opening
*"The Song of the Seeonee" – Wolf Pack
*"Monkey See, Monkey Do" – Monkeys
*"I Knew I Belonged to Her" – Mowgli
*"In A Day's Work" – Baloo and Bagheera
*"The Mighty Hunters" – Shere Khan and Buldeo the Hunter
==Differences between the Mowgli Stories and the film==
Walt Disney told 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.
*Rama is simply Father Wolf in the Mowgli Stories. His name in the film is an error; in the text, Rama is actually a bull from the cattle herd Mowgli had to drive when he lived in the man village.
*In the stories, it is Father Wolf and Raksha who find Mowgli, not Bagheera as seen in the film.
*In the stories, Bagheera spoiled Mowgli. He is more serious in the film.
*In the stories, Mowgli confronted Shere Khan with fire at the Council Rock to defend Akela. In the film, he instead ties a burning branch to the tiger's tail in defense of Baloo. The final confrontation where Shere Khan is killed by Mowgli via the use of stampeding buffalo does not appear. 
*In the film, Baloo is portrayed as a fun-loving, silly bear who cares deeply about Mowgli. In the stories, he is a sleepy, serious bear who taught Mowgli the Law of the Jungle.
*In the stories, Kaa is one of Mowgli's close friends who rescues Mowgli from the Bandar Log, and tells him of the golden ankus, and helps fight the red dogs. In the film, he is a minor antagonist who wants to eat Mowgli.
*In the film, Kaa hypnotizes with his eyes. In the stories, however, Kaa hypnotizes through a dance that affects everyone but Mowgli.
*In the stories, Hathi is a wise ruler of the jungle, while in the movie he is a pompous war elephant who often forgets things.
*In the stories, Hathi has three children, but no spouse (she is not mentioned, it is possible that he had a wife, but was not important for the book). In the film, he has only one child, Junior, a wife, Winifred, and an equal amount of male and female herd members.
*In the film, the monkeys are ruled by a king, King Louie, while in the stories it is repeatedly stated that they have no form of leadership whatsoever.
*The vultures are not present in the stories, either. They were original characters who were made to resemble the Beatles. The only bird that plays an important role in the book is Chil the Kite, who is absent from the film.
*Another character absent from the film is Tabaqui the Jackal. In the stories, Shere Khan has a sidekick who is a mad cowardly jackal that scavenges the homes of others for scraps of food and such.
*The wolves play an important part in the stories. In the film, the wolves are only in the beginning of the story.
*In the stories, Mowgli eats meat like his foster wolf brother. In the film, he eats fruit like Baloo and King Louie.
*In the stories, Mowgli appears skinny, naked (except in the village, where he wore a lungi and sandals), with black shoulder-length hair and carried a knife to make up for his lack of fangs and claws. Whereas in the film, he appears skinny with black neck-length hair, and wears a red langot made from cotton (for obvious censorship reasons), and does not normally carry any weapons around with him to make up for his lack of fangs and claws.
*In the stories, Mowgli realizes he needs to go back to the man village. In the film, he desires to stay in the jungle until the end of the film. 
*There is no girl that lures Mowgli into the village in the stories. In the book, the main female character is a woman named Messua who adopts Mowgli. The girl is most likely inspired by Mahala from the 1942 film.
*In the stories Shere Khan is lame from birth (meaning crippled/unable to walk), which is why he only killed cattle. In the film, there is no mention of him being lame at all. This is possibly due to the difficulty of finding a lame tiger for animation reference.
==Legacy==
Elements of The Jungle Book were recycled in the Disney feature film Robin Hood, 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 1998, the TV series Jungle Cubs told the stories of Baloo, Hathi, Bagheera, Louie, Kaa, and Shere Khan when they were children.
Disney made a live-action remake of the movie, which was more of a realistic action-adventure film with somewhat more adult themes. The film, released in 1994, differs even more from the book than its animated counterpart and was a box-office success. A second theatrical live-action remake was produced by Disney in 2016, which combines elements of both its animated counterpart and the original books, and follows much more closely to the tone of the original Rudyard Kipling books than the previous two Jungle Book theatrical films.
There are two video games based on the film. The Jungle Book was a platformer released in 1993-1994 for Master System, Mega Drive, Game Gear, Super NES, Game Boy, and PC. A version for the Game Boy Advance was released in 2003. The Jungle Book Groove Party was a dance mat game released in 2000 for PlayStation and PlayStation 2. Kaa and Shere Khan made cameo appearances in another Disney video game, Quackshot. A world based on the film was planned to be included in the Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep video game for the PSP, but was dropped out due to the similarities of the Deep Jungle world based on Tarzan.
On February 14, 2003, Disneytoon Studios in Australia released a sequel titled The Jungle Book 2, in which Mowgli runs away from the man village he moved into at the end of the first film, to see his animal friends, unaware of the danger he's facing with Shere Khan, who is more determined to kill him than ever, due to embarrassing him earlier. This film earned $47,901,582 at the box office.
Since the film's release, many of the film's characters appeared in House of Mouse, The Lion King 1½, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers and Once Upon a Studio.
==Videos==
File:The Jungle Book - 1967 Theatrical Trailer|1967 Original Theatrical Trailer
File:The Jungle Book - 1984 Reissue Trailer (35mm 4K)|1984 Reissue Trailer
File:The Jungle Book - 1990 Reissue Trailer (35mm 4K)|1990 Reissue Trailer
File:The Jungle Book (1967) Teaser (VHS Capture)-2|1991 Home Video Trailer
File:The Jungle Book - 1997 Masterpiece Collection VHS Trailer|1997 Home Video Trailer
File:The Jungle Book - 2007 Platinum Edition DVD Trailer -1|2007 Platinum Edition Trailer 1
File:The Jungle Book - 2007 Platinum Edition DVD Trailer -2|2007 Platinum Edition Trailer 2
File:The Jungle Book - 2014 Diamond Edition Blu-ray Trailer|2014 Diamond Edition Trailer
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==The Making of The Jungle Book Audio Clips==
==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*A copyright renewal for the film was registered on August 29, 1995.Online Copyright Catalog search (form autofilled, pressing "begin search" brings up the entry) The copyright to the story it is based on was also renewed in the U.S.,Catalog of Copyright Entries (Source material) 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.
*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 locations are available for exploration via cheats.
*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."Disney on Stamps", Comics Feature no. 51 (January 1987), page 41.
==References==
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