Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is a 1966 animated featurette
Animation
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 released by The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

. Based on the first two chapters of the book Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh (book)
Winnie-the-Pooh is the first volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne. It is followed by The House at Pooh Corner. The book focuses on the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy pig; Eeyore, a toy donkey; Owl, a live owl; and Rabbit, a...

 by A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.-Biography:A. A...

, it is the is the only Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh (Disney)
Winnie the Pooh is an American Walt Disney Company franchise, based on animated fictional characters who have been featured as part of the Disney character line-up. The Winnie the Pooh franchise is based on A. A...

 production released under the production of Walt Disney
Walt Disney
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 before his death later that year. It was later added as a segment to the 1977 film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is the 22nd full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on March 11, 1977....

. Music and lyrics were written by the Sherman Brothers
Sherman Brothers
The Sherman Brothers are an American songwriting duo that specialize in musical films, made up of Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman ....

, (Richard M. Sherman
Richard M. Sherman
Richard Morton Sherman is an American songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert Bernard Sherman....

 and Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman
Robert Bernard Sherman is an American songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman...

). Background music was provided by Buddy Baker
Buddy Baker (composer)
Norman "Buddy" Baker was an American composer who scored many of Walt Disney's films, such as The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, The Shaggy D.A., The Million Dollar Duck and The Fox and the Hound.Baker was born and raised in Springfield, Missouri, and got his degree in...

. This featurette was shown before The Ugly Dachshund
The Ugly Dachshund
The Ugly Dachshund is a 1966 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette in a story about a Great Dane who believes he's a dachshund. Based on a 1938 novel by Gladys Bronwyn Stern, the film was written by Albert Aley and directed by Norman Tokar...

. The Estates of A.A Milne including Christopher Robin Milne, were not happy with the ending of the film, especially the part when Winnie flies though the air, landing inside a bee tree.

Plot

The story begins with Winnie-the-Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood doing his morning stoutness exercises; not to get in shape, but to make him hungry for more food, during which he accidentally rips the stitching on his bottom. After repairing his torn rump he gets "rumbly in his tumbly." Upon visiting his pantry, he finds that his jar of honey is empty (save for a sticky part on the bottom) and starts wondering where he can get more. Slurping the last bit of honey from the empty pot, he hears a bee fly by, and decides to try to get honey from the bee's hive in the nearby honey tree. He climbs the honey tree and reaches as high as he can, but the branch he is standing on breaks, and he falls into a gorse bush.

Pooh decides to visit Christopher Robin in order to get a balloon from him to try to get the honey from the honey tree. He rolls himself in a mud puddle to disguise himself as a little black raincloud, and then uses the balloon to float up next to the hive. Pooh is soon surrounded by angry bees, his 'disguise' wearing off. He kicks a bee, causing it to fall into the same mud puddle that Pooh rolled in, but it angrily comes back and stings Pooh's bottom, sending him swinging upward and back down again, getting his bum stuck in the hive entrance. An onlooking bee sits laughing. Pooh hastily admits to Christopher Robin that the bees are the wrong sort, and is shoved out the hive by a sudden rush from the bees swarming on his bottom. When this happens, the balloon rapidly deflates and Pooh falls down, being caught by Christopher Robin. The chase is now reversed; the bees chase Pooh and Christopher Robin. The two barely manage to escape the angry swarm by diving into a nearby mud puddle.

With honey still on his mind, Pooh Bear goes to Rabbit's house, hoping to find honey there. Rabbit politely invites Pooh for lunch, despite being aware of Pooh's vast appetite. He gives Pooh some honey, but Pooh asks for a larger helping. Rabbit reluctantly gives Pooh the whole honeypot, as he then proceeds to eat every last bit of honey in Rabbit's house. Pooh Bear, patting his very full tummy, thanks Rabbit in a rather sticky voice and waddles off to leave. He tries to exit through Rabbit's front door, but he is now so full of honey that he gets stuck. Rabbit tries to free Pooh by pushing on his over-sized bottom, but the bear won't budge. As Rabbit tries to get Pooh free, a brief argument ensues; Rabbit says that "it all comes from eating too much," while Pooh says that "it all comes from not having a front door big enough." As he is unable to free the bear, Rabbit goes off to fetch Christopher Robin for help. While Pooh waits, he is visited by Owl and Gopher. Owl tries to cheer Pooh up, but ends up making Pooh feel embarrassed by his tight predicament. Gopher offers to free Pooh using dynamite. Rabbit then comes back with Christopher Robin and try to pull Pooh Bear out, but he won't budge one inch from all the honey. Since they can't pull him out, Christopher Robin suggests pushing him back in, but Rabbit protests, shoving a chair up against Pooh's rear to prevent him from going back into Rabbit's house. Eventually, Christopher Robin comes to a solution: Pooh will just have to wait to get thin again. Rabbit is forced to make the best of a bad situation and tries various methods of disguising the bear's bottom, including painting a moose face on it and using his legs to hold up a shelf. Kanga and Roo stop by and give him a bouquet of honeysuckle
Honeysuckle
Honeysuckles are arching shrubs or twining vines in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere. There are about 180 species of honeysuckle, 100 of which occur in China; Europe, India and North America have only about 20 native species each...

 flowers, which causes him to sneeze, thus sending the shelf (and the objects on it) flying.

One night, Gopher returns to see Pooh. Pooh wonders what's inside Gopher's lunch box. When he learns that Gopher has a pot of honey, Pooh asks him for a little taste of it, but Rabbit, who overheard their conversation, runs out, confiscates the honey, and reminds Pooh that he can't eat anything until he is thin again.

After many days have passed, Rabbit discovers that Pooh's bottom has budged ever so slightly when he leans on it, sending him dashing off to find Christopher Robin. Christopher Robin, Kanga, Eeyore, Owl, Roo, and Gopher start pulling on Pooh Bear while Rabbit frantically pushes from behind, but the bear won't move. Fed up with all the delay, Rabbit takes several steps backwards and charges into Pooh Bear. With a loud "pop!" he bursts out of Rabbit's front door like a cork and goes flying through the air, coming to an abrupt halt in the honey tree getting himself stuck again and frightening the bees away. The gang runs after him, and Christopher Robin tells Pooh that they will help him get out again but Pooh tells them to take their time; he is quite content to remain stuck as he happily eats his honey, singing a reprise of Rumbly in My Tumbly.

Voice cast

  • Sterling Holloway
    Sterling Holloway
    Sterling Price Holloway, Jr. was an American character actor who appeared in 150 films and television programs. He was also a voice actor for The Walt Disney Company...

     as Winnie the Pooh
  • Junius Matthews
    Junius Matthews
    -Career:He was a private in World War I before becoming an actor, and determined to become a popular radio and television actor, his career began on stage where he got his first role in a silent film called The Silent Witness . He later played the role of the Tin Woodsman on a radio version of The...

     as Rabbit
  • Bruce Reitherman
    Bruce Reitherman
    Bruce Reitherman is an American filmmaker and former child actor and singer. He is the son of the late Disney animation director Wolfgang Reitherman.- Life and work :Reitherman was born in Burbank, California...

     as Christopher Robin
  • Hal Smith
    Hal Smith (actor)
    Harold John "Hal" Smith was an American character actor and voice actor. Smith is best known as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show, and was the voice of many characters on various animated cartoon shorts...

     as Owl
  • Howard Morris
    Howard Morris
    Howard Morris was an American comic actor and director who was best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.- Life and career :...

     as Gopher
  • Clint Howard
    Clint Howard
    Clinton "Clint" Howard is an American film and television actor. He is a character actor with numerous brief appearances on television and films. He has played many bit parts in movies directed by his brother, actor-turned-director Ron Howard. He is also the uncle of actress Bryce Dallas Howard...

     as Roo
  • Barbara Luddy
    Barbara Luddy
    Barbara Luddy was an American actress from Great Falls, Montana. Her film career began with silent pictures in the 1920s, during which time she was also a prolific radio performer....

     as Kanga
  • Ralph Wright
    Ralph Wright
    Ralph Waldo Wright was a Disney animator and story/storyboard writer who is best known for providing the gloomy, sullen voice of Eeyore from the popular Winnie-the-Pooh franchise...

     as Eeyore
  • James MacDonald
    Jimmy MacDonald (sound effects artist)
    John James "Jimmy" MacDonald was a Scottish voice actor and the original head of the Disney sound effects department, and the voice of Mickey Mouse from 1946 to 1977.-Career and sound effects:...

     as The Bees (uncredited)
  • Dal McKennon as The Bees (uncredited)
  • Ginny Tyler
    Ginny Tyler
    Ginny Tyler is a Native American voice actress who appeared in dozens of cartoons and animated films from 1957 to 1992. In 2006, she was inducted into the Disney Legends program.-Life and work:...

     as The Bees (uncredited)
  • Narrated by Sebastian Cabot
    Sebastian Cabot (actor)
    Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot was an English film and television actor, best remembered as the gentleman's gentleman, "Giles French," opposite Brian Keith's character, in the 1960s sitcom Family Affair. He was also known for playing Dr...


Songs

  • "Winnie the Pooh
    Winnie the Pooh (song)
    "Winnie the Pooh" is the title song for the franchise of the same name. It is musically emblematic of the most successful branding Disney currently owns and has been used in most merchandising models of the brand since the song's first publication in 1966 in the musical film featurette, Winnie the...

    "
  • "Up, Down and Touch the Ground
    Up, Down and Touch the Ground
    "Up, Down and Touch the Ground" is a song from the 1966 musical film featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. The song was also subsequently incorporated into the 1977 musical film, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which is an amalgamation of the three previous Winnie-the-Pooh...

    "
  • "Rumbly in My Tumbly
    Rumbly in My Tumbly
    "Rumbly in My Tumbly" is a song from the 1966 musical film featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. The song is also incorporated into the 1977 musical film, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which is an amalgamation of three Winnie-the-Pooh featurettes including "Honey Tree"...

    "
  • "Mind Over Matter
    Mind Over Matter (song)
    "Mind Over Matter" is a song from the 1966 musical film featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. The song was also subsequently incorporated into the 1977 musical film, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which is an amalgamation of the three previous Winnie-the-Pooh featurettes including...

    "
  • "Little Black Rain Cloud
    Little Black Rain Cloud
    "Little Black Rain Cloud" is a song from the 1966 musical film featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. An instrumental version is played in the next featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day...

    "

Winnie the Pooh featurettes

  • Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
  • Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
    Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
    Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day is a 1968 animated featurette based on stories from the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne. The featurette was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution on December 20, 1968 before The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit. This was...

    (1968)
  • Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974)
  • Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
    Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
    Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore is a Disney Winnie the Pooh animated featurette, based on two chapters from the books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, originally released theatrically on March 11, 1983, before the 1983 re-issue of The Sword in the Stone...

    (1983)
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