Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

This is about the film. For other uses, see Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (disambiguation)

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is a 1966 film combining live-action and animated. It was released by the Walt Disney Company. Based on the first two chapters of the book Winnie-the-Pooh written by A. A. Milne, it is the only Winnie the Pooh production to be released under the supervision of Walt Disney before his death in December 1966. It was later added as a segment to the 1977 film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Music and lyrics were written by the Sherman Brothers (Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman). Background music was provided by Buddy Baker. This featurette was shown before The Ugly Dachshund. Release Date February 25, 1966

Since 1974, Pooh is a titular protagonist of Disney Company franchise of the same name.

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The film's plot is based primarily on two stories A.A. Milne stories: "In which we are introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and some bees, and the stories Begin" (Chapter I of Winnie-the-Pooh), and "In which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place" (Chapter II of Winnie-the-Pooh).

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After his morning exercise, Pooh goes to his pantry for some breakfast, but finds he is fresh out of honey. He hears a bee fly by and decides to climb the honey tree, but while climbing he falls, landing in a gorse bush. Needing help, Pooh heads to Christopher Robin's house. Pooh gets a blue balloon from Christopher Robin to try to get the honey from the honey tree. He rolls himself in a muddy puddle to disguise himself as a little black raincloud, and then uses the balloon to float up next to the hive. However the angry bees end up chasing Pooh and Christopher Robin, and the two barely manage to escape the angry swarm by diving into the mud puddle.

With honey still on Pooh's mind, he heads to Rabbit's house. Rabbit invites Pooh in for lunch, originally intending to give him a small drop of the stuff. However, Pooh eats out every last bit of honey available in Rabbit's house, which causes his bottom to become extremely fat. Pooh thanks Rabbit and tries to go out the front door which he came in through, but becomes stuck because of his now obese bottom, which has become too fat to fit through the door. Rabbit attempts to unstick Pooh, pushing hard on his overweight bottom, but when he pushes it just causes Pooh's bottom to become fatter. As Rabbit runs off to fetch Christopher Robin for help, Owl flies over and sees the predicament Pooh is in, declaring that an expert is needed, which Gopher claims to be. Gopher offers to free Pooh using dynamite but Pooh refuses.

Rabbit returns with Christopher Robin and Eeyore in tow. They unsuccessfully try to pull Pooh Bear out. Eventually, Christopher Robin decides that Pooh will just have to wait to get thin again. Rabbit is forced to make the best of a bad situation, when he decides he doesn't want the bear's ginormous bottom sticking out of his door, including disguising it as a moose head, and placing furniture on it, but Pooh sneezes (from honeysuckles that Roo gave him earlier) and causes the antiques to fall off. Rabbit eventually finds out that Pooh's bottom growing in fatness has caused it to become very comfy. Rabbit decides to use him as a chair, with his legs as arm rests and his ginormous-but-comfy bottom as a cushion.

One night, while Pooh is asleep, Gopher pops out of the ground once again. This time, he is taking a break from the "swing shift" which he is working. Gopher is carrying a lunchbox with him. One of the things Gopher is snacking on is a jar of honey, and Rabbit manages to prevent Pooh getting a lick and sternly insists that nobody feeds the bear.

A few days later, Rabbit wakes up and and sees that Pooh's fat bottom has now shrunk slightly, meaning it is now possible to pull him out. Rabbit gets Christopher Robin who gathers Kanga, Eeyore, Owl, Roo, and Gopher and they all pull on Pooh from outside the house while Rabbit frantically pushes Pooh from inside. Finally Rabbit (fed up with all the delay) charges into Pooh, which sends him out of Rabbit's front door and shooting into into the air (knocking the others down in the process) until he lands headfirst in the hollow of 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 now he has an ample supply of honey to eat.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh[]

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree made it into The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh along with Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too. It is the first segment in the film.

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Piglet and Tigger do not appear in the story itself having been replaced by the more all-American Gopher, though they do appear in the poster. Piglet also makes a cameo during the opening sequence, when his friends get Pooh out of Rabbit's hole and with his friends running after him after Pooh by finding him stuck again but with a slightly different design.
Christopher Robin was originally voiced by Bruce Reitherman who has lines were re-dubbed by Jon Walmsley.
There is a deleted scene, heard only in the 1965 LP album, in which after Pooh gets stuck, Christopher Robin and the animals have a picnic, but resist to feed him, much to the bear's dismay. This was also seen in the 1965 storybook adaptation.
This is the only appearance of the Winnie the Pooh song reprise, as The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh reused the closing instrumental music from Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day instead.
Another brief deleted scene involves Kanga placing a warm shawl around Pooh, to keep him from getting cold at night Christopher Robin reading to him and Owl teaching him dangers and long words though he is shown wearing it in the nighttime scene featured. This was also not only included in the aforementioned LP and storybook adaptations, but also the Animated StoryBook: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree.
There is a deleted scene that has Owl telling Pooh fairy tales.
The sound of Pooh's pooh-koo clock ("Pooh- koo Pooh-koo") was later heard in Nickelodeon Magazine commercials from 1997 to 2008.

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The scene where Rabbit deals with Pooh's being part of the decor of his home is not in the original book, but it is reportedly contemplated by Disney when he first read the book.

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