The Jungle Book (Disney) (1967)

Voices Of Famous Stars Add To Disney’s All-Cartoon Musical Comedy! Mat JB 3-B (Standard 3S column width and coarse screen) © 1967 Walt Disney Productions In this group of composite photographs, (1) Lord Tim Hudson contributes his voice talent to the vulture Dizzy, one of the vulture members of the most no-talent singing group to ever be left undiscovered in the jungle. (2) Louis Prima with Sam Butera and the Witnesses provide the voices for King Louie the Most, and his monkey friends. (3) Phil Harris and Sebastian Cabot furnish voice talents for Baloo, the Bear and Bagheera the panther, respectively. (4) George Sanders supplies the voice talent for Shere Khan, the tiger terror of the jungle. (5) Sterling Holloway has provided the voice for Kaa, the sneaky snake. (6) J. Pat O’Malley has contributed his voice talent to Buzzie, another member of the talentless vulture quartet, in Walt Disney’s animated musical, “The Jungle Book.” Disney’s “The Jungle Book” Inspired By Tales Remembered From Kipling’s Indian Childhood Rudyard Kipling’s “Mowgli” stories, which are the inspiration for the Walt Disney animated musical feature, ‘““‘The Jungle Book,” were in turn inspired by the author’s early life in the exotic city of Bombay. His father taught architectural sculpture there and it was here that the boy was born in 1865 and lived until he was six before being sent to school in England. The mystery and beauty of India, then part of the British Empire, was a fascinating place for the impressionable boy. And along with his Standard 2 column width and coarse screen) younger sister, Alice, he spent most of his time with the native ayahs, or nurses, who taught him to speak Hindustani. They filled Kipling’s head with wonderful folk tales about the jungle animals who lived in the strange primitive country beyond the British colony. These stories remained with him until finally being committed to paper in “The Jungle Books” which were published in 1894 and 1895 and helped make Kipling an international celebrity. isney Productions Mancub Mowgli finds that King Louie and Baloo, the bear, are kind of stretching things a bit with their forceful hold on him, in Walt Disney’s all-cartoon comedy adventure, “The Jungle Book,” with the voice talents of Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O’Malley and Bruce Reitherman. Filmed in Technicolor, “The Jungle Book” was inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s “Mowgli” stories. Page 8 In color by Technicolor, ‘The Jungle Book” features the voice talents of Phil Harris as Baloo, the happy-golucky bear; Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera, the stern panther; Louis Prima as King Louie the Most, the addled ape potentate; George Sanders as Shere Khan, sophisticated tiger heavy; Sterling Holloway as Kaa, the sneaky snake; J. Pat O’Malley as the pompous elephant Colonel Hathi; and Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli, the mancub. “The Jungle Book” was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and was written for the screen by Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Ken Anderson and Vance Gerry. The Oscar-winning, songwriting team of Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman composed five songs for the picture and Terry Gilkyson has contributed an additional song. George Bruns composed the background score. Buena Vista releases. “The Jungle Book” is being screened locally on an all-Disney program with the animal-adventure film, “Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar.” Filmed in the breathtaking mountain country of the Pacific Northwest, ‘Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar” tells the story of a playful cougar kitten which is raised by a lumberman in a logging camp. Growing up in this environment, the cat learns to birl logs, and works side by side with the loggers on the world’s last major river drive. Problems begin for the cougar when, fully grown, he is considered too dangerous to be allowed to roam free at the lumber mill, and is returned to the wilds. His domesticity has dulled his instincts for survival and he is unable to fend for himself. Both pictures, in Technicolor, are being released by Buena Vista. Voice Of Phil Harris Turns “The Jungle Book” Into A Comedy The voice of Phil Harris, which goes behind a big grey bear in Walt Disney’s feature-length cartoon, “The Jungle Book,” turned the tide of production and gave Walt a key to*the kind of comedy he really wanted to produce. Up until that point, the screenplay had closely followed the serious tenor of Rudyard Kipling’s famous adventure stories about the mancub, Mowgli. And Walt wasn’t happy. During one of the frequent story conferences that marked the first exploratory days of production, he asked director Woolie Reitherman to try Phil Harris as the bear. This had nothing particular to do with the over all thinking on the picture, but finding voices is always a necessary early step in making a cartoon, although usually voices are cast to fit the characters rather than the other way around. Phil changed all that but he wasn’t a willing candidate at first. “What,” he roared over the telephone, ‘‘me play a bear?” “Forget the bear,” advised Walt, when Harris arrived at the studio with his agent, “just play Phil Harris.” “Oh,” replied Phil, breaking out into a grin, “now you’re talking. That’s easy.” When Walt listened to the Harris voice track he announced: ‘‘That’s it! That’s our picture. We’ll do the whole thing over.” Harris was just as elated. “Boy, this is going to make me immortal,” he said. “But Alice won’t believe I’m such a good bear unless you give mea record.” Walt gave him a record so that he could go home. And the Harris character set a whole new pace for an ani mated motion picture, and the last, to be personally produced by Walt Disney. “The Jungle Book” was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and was written for the screen by Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Ken Anderson and Vance Gerry. Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman composed five songs for the picture and Terry Gilkyson has contributed an additional song. George Bruns composed the background score. In Technicolor, it will be released by Buena Vista. “The Jungle Book” is being screened locally on an all-Disney program with the animal-adventure film, “Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar.” Filmed in the breathtaking mountain country of the Pacific Northwest, ‘Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar” tells the story of a playful cougar kitten which is raised by a lumberman in a logging camp. Growing up in this environment, the cat learns to birl logs, and works side by side with the loggers on the world’s last major river drive. Problems begin for the cougar when, fully grown, he is considered too dangerous to be allowed to roam free at the lumber mill, and is returned to the wilds. His domesticity has dulled his instincts for survival and he is unable to fend for himself. Both pictures, in Technicolor, are being released by Buena Vista.