![]() Even more than these precursors, Kipling’s tales of the man-cub Mowgli, an orphan raised by solicitous wolves in the wilds of India, were Americanized and Disneyfied. The movie followed “One Hundred and One Dalmatians,” “The Sword in the Stone,” “Mary Poppins” and the featurette “Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree” as the studio’s fifth consecutive full or partial animation project based on a British children’s book. That pop-culture titan died in December 1966, three years after work on the movie began and 10 months before its release.ĭisney’s “The Jungle Book” hewed more closely to its source, Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli stories, than the Korda brothers’ 1942 live-action version (a vehicle for the teenage star Sabu), but it was also a form of reverse colonization. ![]() Newly released on Blu-ray (as well as on DVD and digital HD), it was the last of the studio’s animated features to have been made under Walt Disney himself. Although the name Disney is synonymous for some with timeless entertainment, “The Jungle Book” occupies a special place in Disney company history. ![]()
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