Disney VHS: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh w/ Case Includes Featurette!

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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Walt Disney’s Masterpiece) [VHS]
Sebastian Cabot (Actor), Junius Matthews (Actor), John Lounsbery (Director), & 1 more Rated: G (General Audience) Format: VHS Tape

What bear could be more loveable than the honey-eating, huggably pudgy, sweet-hearted Winnie-the Pooh? Certainly his owner and best friend, Christopher Robin, can’t find one! Enjoy the adventures of Pooh bear and his pals in this animated adaptation of A.A. Milne’s classic children’s books.

Actors: Sebastian Cabot, Junius Matthews, Barbara Luddy, Howard Morris, John Fiedler
Directors: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman
Writers: Ralph Wright, A.A. Milne, Eric Cleworth, Julius Svendsen, Ken Anderson
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Language: English
Rated: G (General Audience)
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
VHS Release Date: March 26, 1996
Run Time: 74 minutes

On the tape:
Toy Story Previews.
Aladdin and the King of Thieves Previews.
Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection Video Promo.
Disney’s Interactive Previews.
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Intro.

The film’s content is derived from three previously released animated featurettes Disney produced based upon the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974). Extra material used to link the three featurettes together was added to allow the stories to merge into each other.

A fourth, shorter featurette was added to bring the film to a close. The sequence was based on the final chapter of The House at Pooh Corner, where Christopher Robin has to leave the Hundred Acre Wood behind as he is starting school. In it, Christopher Robin and Pooh discuss what they liked doing together and the boy asks his bear to promise to remember him and to keep some of the memories of their time together alive. Pooh agrees to do so, and the film closes with The Narrator saying that wherever Christopher Robin goes, Pooh will always be waiting for him whenever he returns.

In 1996, it was re-released on VHS as part of the Masterpiece Collection and included video footage of the making which was shown before the movie starts.

People have watched Winnie the Pooh on videos separately from 1966 to 1977, when they made the video we now call “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.” In 1977, Disney brought the videos together to make a wonderful, heartwarming video.

The video contains 4 storybook classics. In “Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree”, Pooh eats so much honey at Rabbit’s house and gets stuck in a hole.

In the Oscar award winning “Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day”, there is a big flood and Piglet must be saved.

In “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too”, Tigger learns that even bouncing can be over done, and gets stuck in a tree.

In “Winnie the Pooh and the Day for Eeyore”, Eeyore thinks everyone has forgotten his birthday, but Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Owl, and Christopher Robin throw him a party.

Even though these stories are all good, the best of the four is obviously the classic “Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree”. I think it is the best one because it is the first, and it is full of action, like when Pooh climbs the honey tree, and when he gets stuck, and when he flies into the honey tree. These stories have been entertaining Pooh lovers all around, especially the first two.

This video has great voices and animation. Paul Winchell does the voice of Tigger, Sterling Holloway does the voice of Pooh,(in the Day for Eeyore it is Hal Smith). Hal Smith also does Owl, Ralph Wright does Eeyore, Clint Howard does Roo, Junius Matthews does Rabbit, Barbara Luddy does Kanga, and for Christopher Robin, it is different each time.

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Case slightly squished. VHS itself is near mint. Tape is completely rewinded for your convenience. Includes a featurette with behind-the-scenes interviews with the original voices, animators and composers!