Chris Cooper won Best Supporting Actor for this film from his only Academy Award nomination (as of 2020).
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Voted number 19 in Channel 4's (UK) "Greatest Family Films"
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The 19th animated feature in Disney animated features canon, and the last to be personally supervised by Walt Disney himself. The first Disney film to be released after his death in 1966, just prior to the film's theatrical release, and this film was dedicated to his memory.
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Eric Larson's final film as an animator. After this film, he would begin working as a trainer for newly-hired animators until he retired in 1986.
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Two items which have surfaced just after Robert B. Sherman's death, March 5, 2012: 1. This was the second-to-last movie Walt Disney personally supervised. The last one was actually The Happiest Millionaire (1967). And Terry Gilkyson had apparently written a full score initially, but Walt Disney found it too dark, so at the last minute, he threw it away and asked the Sherman brothers to replace it with a more 'fun' score. However, "Bare Necessities" stayed on at the insistence of others involved in this film, went on to be nominated for the Academy Award, and provided some inspiration for Elton John to wrote his "Hakuna Matata" (the same philosophy) for The Lion King (1994).
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Disney's later own 2016 live action-CGI semi re-boot version of The Jungle Book, both references certain elements of the 1967 version, such as some of the music score, whilst also taking the story in a different direction.
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For the film's backgrounds, Disney animators visited real jungles in India and studied wildlife there.
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According to Richard M. Sherman the vulture's song (That's What Friends Are For) had a line which featured the word "hover". The plan was to have the singers pronounce it the same way as Walt Disney ("hoover"). Eventually, for unknown reasons, this line was removed.
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All of the 'scatting' in the film was improvised by Phil Harris and Louis Prima.
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Bruce Reitherman - who provided the voice of Mowgli - is now a wildlife documentarian.
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King Louie calls Mowgli "cousin." This is technically accurate as both humans and apes are primates.
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This is the first Disney Animated Feature where the opening credits say who voiced which role.
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Shere Khan was modeled after George Sanders who provided his voice. According to the DVD commentary on the film's 40th Anniversary 2-Disc Platinum Edition DVD release in 2007, most of the characters' appearances were based on their actors, but his is the most noticeable.
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Wolfgang Reitherman: [Re-using animation] There are multiple moments in the film which feature animation recycled from One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), The Sword in the Stone (1963), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), Song of the South (1946) and Goliath II (1960).
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Shere Khan's stripes proved to be a nightmare for the animators working on him.
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Darleen Carr's last work with Disney Studios.
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Jungle Book - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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