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Winnie the Pooh (Disney character)

March 05, 2023

This article is about the Disney character Winnie the Pooh. For the character's original version, see Winnie-the-Pooh. For other uses, see Winnie-the-Pooh (disambiguation).

Winnie the Pooh (commonly shortened to Pooh Bear or simply Pooh) is a fictional teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne, is one of the most popular characters adapted for film and television by The Walt Disney Company. Disney first received certain licensing rights to the Winnie the Pooh stories, characters, and trademarks from Stephen Slesinger, Inc. and the estate of A. A. Milne in 1961.

Winnie the Pooh
Disney's Winnie the Pooh character
First appearanceWinnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
Created by
Adapted byWalt Disney
Eric Larson
Voiced by
In-universe information
Nickname
  • Pooh Bear
  • Silly Ol' Bear
SpeciesTeddy bear
GenderMale
OriginWinnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne

Adaptation and development by Disney

In 1961, Walt Disney Productions licensed certain film and other rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh characters, stories and trademarks from Stephen Slesinger, Inc. and the estate of A. A. Milne. and made a series of animated films about him. These early films were based on several of the original stories and the distinctive artwork made popular by Stephen Slesinger, Inc. during the 1930s through the 1960s. Alongside the animated versions, which Disney adapted from Slesinger, Slesinger's simplified lines and pastel color adaptations of Shepard's original illustrations are now marketed under the description "Classic Pooh".

In 1977, Disney released the animated feature film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, introducing a new character named Gopher (which Gopher acknowledges by proclaiming, "I'm not in the book, you know"). The film constitutes three stories originally released as separate featurettes: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974). The 1977 release featured new bridging material and a new ending. A fourth featurette, Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore, was released in 1983.

The live-action TV series Welcome to Pooh Corner ran on the Disney Channel from 1983 to 1986. In 1988, Disney launched an animated TV series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, which aired from 1988 to 1991 with a total of 83 episodes. Pooh appeared with Tigger in the anti-drug animated TV special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.

In 2000, Disney released the feature film The Tigger Movie in which the character of Tigger played the leading role. Due to its success, two more feature-length Pooh movies based on other characters were released to theaters: Piglet's Big Movie in 2003 and Pooh's Heffalump Movie in 2005. Pooh also made appearances in episodes of the animated series House of Mouse, however he doesn't have any speaking lines and is mostly seen in the background.

Disney, along with Shadow Projects produced a puppet TV series for preschoolers, called The Book of Pooh which aired on Playhouse Disney from 2001 to 2003. Disney produced another series for preschoolers, called My Friends Tigger & Pooh, which aired on Playhouse Disney from 2007 to 2010 and done in CGI. Pooh also makes a cameo appearance in the DreamWorks animated film, Bee Movie along with Piglet, at one point, a man spies Pooh and Piglet eating honey and Barry tells him to "take him out" with a tranquilizer dart.

Winnie the Pooh was released in 2011. In April 2015, Deadline reported that Disney would develop a live action Winnie the Pooh movie with Brigham Taylor producing and Alex Ross Perry writing. The film focuses both on Pooh and the adult Christopher Robin returning to the Hundred Acre Woods and his reunion with Pooh and friends.[1] Christopher Robin was released on August 3, 2018 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in the United States.

Casting history

Sterling Holloway was the original voice of Pooh, starting with the 1966 theatrical featurette, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, although the Disneyland Records version was actually released in 1965.[2] Holloway continued to voice the character for over a decade, which included the next two theatrical featurettes, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974), as well as several albums for Disneyland Records.[3] Holloway's last performance as Pooh was for the bridging material in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977).

Hal Smith, who also voiced Owl in the original theatrical featurettes, took over as the voice of Pooh in 1977, starting with the Disney Read-Along adaptation of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too.[4] His first performance as Pooh in animation was for the 1981 short, Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons. He would continue to voice Pooh regularly for various projects up until the late 1980s, which included the theatrical featurette Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (1983) and the TV series Welcome to Pooh Corner.

Jim Cummings was chosen to voice the character for the 1988 TV series, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Cummings has since become the official voice for the character, having voiced him in various TV series, video games, and movies, including the 2018 live-action film, Christopher Robin.

Disney Parks

Pooh is a common character in the Disney Parks and the most common in the Winnie the Pooh franchise. He is also usually seen with Tigger and Eeyore, and occasionally Piglet, and is located in Fantasyland.

In the Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom attraction, Pooh has his own spell card known as "Winnie the Pooh's Honey Bees." Pooh also has his own show in Disneyland Paris, called "Winnie the Pooh and Friends, too!." In the same park, Pooh takes part on his own float in Disney Magic on Parade.

In the 2015 rendition of World of Color, Pooh made a cameo appearance during the opening sequence, in honor of Walt Disney.

Ownership controversy and changes

During his lifetime, Milne was liberal with his grant of rights. At times he licensed the same exclusive rights to more than one entity.

In the United States, E. P. Dutton and Company acquired exclusive volume publication rights and Stephen Slesinger, Inc., acquired sole and exclusive rights to virtually all uses outside of the Dutton books as well as rights to any sorts of future uses. Beginning in 1930 Stephen Slesinger created all of the distinctive and colorful images of Pooh outside of the books. Under license from Slesinger, Pooh made his debuts in radio, film, animation, children's theatre, advertising and a host of consumer products and services protected by trademark. Outside of the U.S. and Canada, Milne retained most of his literary copyright rights which he left to four beneficiaries of his trust: The Garrick Club, Westminster School, The Royal Literary Fund and the A. A. Milne Family. By direction of Milne's will, the Pooh Properties Trust was formed. Mrs. Milne, trustee of the Milne Estate, and Spencer Curtis Brown, Trustee, licensed certain exclusive film rights to Disney in 1961. Christopher Robin Milne sold his rights to the other copyright holders, in order to raise money to support his daughter, before his death in 1996.

Sometime around 2000, the Pooh Properties Trust licensed additional rights to Disney and accepted a buyout of their claims to royalties as defined in a 1991 lawsuit brought by Stephen Slesinger, Inc. Although Slesinger's rights are arguably more valuable, the combined value paid by Disney to The Pooh Properties Trust is said to be approximately $300 million for Milne's portion of those rights.

To further minimize Disney's legal exposure to Slesinger, Disney paid money to the Pooh Properties attorneys and trusts to use the name of Clare Milne, daughter of Christopher Robin, in an attempt to terminate certain of the copyright rights of Stephen Slesinger Inc, in the wake of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. The district court found in favor of Stephen Slesinger, Inc., as did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[5] On June 26, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, thus sustaining the Appeals Court ruling.[6]

In December 2005, Disney announced that Pooh's friend and owner Christopher Robin would be replaced as Pooh's main friend by a six-year-old "tomboyish" red-haired girl Darby for the Disney Channel animated television series, My Friends Tigger & Pooh. Christopher Robin appeared intermittently in the series.

Awards and honors

In 2002, TV Guide compiled a list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time as part of the magazine's 50th anniversary. Winnie the Pooh was given the honor of number 27.

On April 11, 2006, Pooh was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, being the fourth Disney character to receive one after Mickey Mouse, Snow White and Donald Duck. The star is located on 6834 Hollywood Blvd.

Controversies in China

 
Meme comparing Piglet and Winnie the Pooh to Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and Xi Jinping, respectively.
See also: Censorship in China

Winnie the Pooh has been used in political satire and has created controversies in China since 2013. In that year, critics compared an image of Pooh and his friend Tigger to a picture of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US president Barack Obama, who met at the G20 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Cartoons of Xi as Winnie the Pooh were regarded as disrespectful, but they continued to be used by critics. Dissident Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia were photographed holding Pooh mugs as an act of protest. Some commentators have speculated that the movie Christopher Robin has been banned in China as a result of these controversies.[7][8]

Filmography

Theatrical shorts

Feature-length films

Television series

Television specials

See also

References

  1. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (April 2, 2015). "Disney Sets Live-Action 'Winnie The Pooh' Film; Alex Ross Perry To Write". Deadline.
  2. ^ Ehrbar, Greg (April 26, 2016). "Disney's "Winnie the Pooh & The Honey Tree" on Records". Cartoon Research.
  3. ^ Hollis, Tim; Ehrbar, Greg (2006). Mouse Tracks: The Story of Disneyland Records. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1617034336.
  4. ^ "Winnie the Pooh And Tigger Too". Discogs.
  5. ^ "Appeals court denies bid by Pooh creator's heir to revoke rights". Los Angeles. Associated Press. December 8, 2005.
  6. ^ . CNN. Archived from the original on June 29, 2006.
  7. ^ Kristof, Nicholas (9 October 2019). "Opinion | Let's Not Take Cues From a Country That Bans Winnie the Pooh". The New York Times.
  8. ^ Haas, Benjamin (7 August 2018). "China bans Winnie the Pooh film after comparisons to President Xi". The Guardian.

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This article is about the Disney character Winnie the Pooh For the character s original version see Winnie the Pooh For other uses see Winnie the Pooh disambiguation This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Winnie the Pooh Disney character news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2014 Learn how and when to remove this template message Winnie the Pooh commonly shortened to Pooh Bear or simply Pooh is a fictional teddy bear created by English author A A Milne is one of the most popular characters adapted for film and television by The Walt Disney Company Disney first received certain licensing rights to the Winnie the Pooh stories characters and trademarks from Stephen Slesinger Inc and the estate of A A Milne in 1961 Winnie the PoohDisney s Winnie the Pooh characterFirst appearanceWinnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree 1966 Created byA A MilneE H ShepardAdapted byWalt DisneyEric LarsonVoiced bySterling Holloway 1965 1977 Hal Smith 1977 1987 Jim Cummings 1988 present In universe informationNicknamePooh BearSilly Ol BearSpeciesTeddy bearGenderMaleOriginWinnie the Poohby A A Milne Contents 1 Adaptation and development by Disney 1 1 Casting history 1 2 Disney Parks 2 Ownership controversy and changes 3 Awards and honors 4 Controversies in China 5 Filmography 5 1 Theatrical shorts 5 2 Feature length films 5 3 Television series 5 4 Television specials 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksAdaptation and development by Disney EditIn 1961 Walt Disney Productions licensed certain film and other rights to the Winnie the Pooh characters stories and trademarks from Stephen Slesinger Inc and the estate of A A Milne and made a series of animated films about him These early films were based on several of the original stories and the distinctive artwork made popular by Stephen Slesinger Inc during the 1930s through the 1960s Alongside the animated versions which Disney adapted from Slesinger Slesinger s simplified lines and pastel color adaptations of Shepard s original illustrations are now marketed under the description Classic Pooh In 1977 Disney released the animated feature film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh introducing a new character named Gopher which Gopher acknowledges by proclaiming I m not in the book you know The film constitutes three stories originally released as separate featurettes Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree 1966 Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day 1968 and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too 1974 The 1977 release featured new bridging material and a new ending A fourth featurette Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore was released in 1983 The live action TV series Welcome to Pooh Corner ran on the Disney Channel from 1983 to 1986 In 1988 Disney launched an animated TV series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which aired from 1988 to 1991 with a total of 83 episodes Pooh appeared with Tigger in the anti drug animated TV special Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue In 2000 Disney released the feature film The Tigger Movie in which the character of Tigger played the leading role Due to its success two more feature length Pooh movies based on other characters were released to theaters Piglet s Big Movie in 2003 and Pooh s Heffalump Movie in 2005 Pooh also made appearances in episodes of the animated series House of Mouse however he doesn t have any speaking lines and is mostly seen in the background Disney along with Shadow Projects produced a puppet TV series for preschoolers called The Book of Pooh which aired on Playhouse Disney from 2001 to 2003 Disney produced another series for preschoolers called My Friends Tigger amp Pooh which aired on Playhouse Disney from 2007 to 2010 and done in CGI Pooh also makes a cameo appearance in the DreamWorks animated film Bee Movie along with Piglet at one point a man spies Pooh and Piglet eating honey and Barry tells him to take him out with a tranquilizer dart Winnie the Pooh was released in 2011 In April 2015 Deadline reported that Disney would develop a live action Winnie the Pooh movie with Brigham Taylor producing and Alex Ross Perry writing The film focuses both on Pooh and the adult Christopher Robin returning to the Hundred Acre Woods and his reunion with Pooh and friends 1 Christopher Robin was released on August 3 2018 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in the United States Casting history Edit Sterling Holloway was the original voice of Pooh starting with the 1966 theatrical featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree although the Disneyland Records version was actually released in 1965 2 Holloway continued to voice the character for over a decade which included the next two theatrical featurettes Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day 1968 and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too 1974 as well as several albums for Disneyland Records 3 Holloway s last performance as Pooh was for the bridging material in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 1977 Hal Smith who also voiced Owl in the original theatrical featurettes took over as the voice of Pooh in 1977 starting with the Disney Read Along adaptation of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too 4 His first performance as Pooh in animation was for the 1981 short Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons He would continue to voice Pooh regularly for various projects up until the late 1980s which included the theatrical featurette Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore 1983 and the TV series Welcome to Pooh Corner Jim Cummings was chosen to voice the character for the 1988 TV series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Cummings has since become the official voice for the character having voiced him in various TV series video games and movies including the 2018 live action film Christopher Robin Disney Parks Edit Pooh is a common character in the Disney Parks and the most common in the Winnie the Pooh franchise He is also usually seen with Tigger and Eeyore and occasionally Piglet and is located in Fantasyland In the Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom attraction Pooh has his own spell card known as Winnie the Pooh s Honey Bees Pooh also has his own show in Disneyland Paris called Winnie the Pooh and Friends too In the same park Pooh takes part on his own float in Disney Magic on Parade In the 2015 rendition of World of Color Pooh made a cameo appearance during the opening sequence in honor of Walt Disney Ownership controversy and changes EditDuring his lifetime Milne was liberal with his grant of rights At times he licensed the same exclusive rights to more than one entity In the United States E P Dutton and Company acquired exclusive volume publication rights and Stephen Slesinger Inc acquired sole and exclusive rights to virtually all uses outside of the Dutton books as well as rights to any sorts of future uses Beginning in 1930 Stephen Slesinger created all of the distinctive and colorful images of Pooh outside of the books Under license from Slesinger Pooh made his debuts in radio film animation children s theatre advertising and a host of consumer products and services protected by trademark Outside of the U S and Canada Milne retained most of his literary copyright rights which he left to four beneficiaries of his trust The Garrick Club Westminster School The Royal Literary Fund and the A A Milne Family By direction of Milne s will the Pooh Properties Trust was formed Mrs Milne trustee of the Milne Estate and Spencer Curtis Brown Trustee licensed certain exclusive film rights to Disney in 1961 Christopher Robin Milne sold his rights to the other copyright holders in order to raise money to support his daughter before his death in 1996 Sometime around 2000 the Pooh Properties Trust licensed additional rights to Disney and accepted a buyout of their claims to royalties as defined in a 1991 lawsuit brought by Stephen Slesinger Inc Although Slesinger s rights are arguably more valuable the combined value paid by Disney to The Pooh Properties Trust is said to be approximately 300 million for Milne s portion of those rights To further minimize Disney s legal exposure to Slesinger Disney paid money to the Pooh Properties attorneys and trusts to use the name of Clare Milne daughter of Christopher Robin in an attempt to terminate certain of the copyright rights of Stephen Slesinger Inc in the wake of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 The district court found in favor of Stephen Slesinger Inc as did the U S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 5 On June 26 2006 the U S Supreme Court refused to hear the case thus sustaining the Appeals Court ruling 6 In December 2005 Disney announced that Pooh s friend and owner Christopher Robin would be replaced as Pooh s main friend by a six year old tomboyish red haired girl Darby for the Disney Channel animated television series My Friends Tigger amp Pooh Christopher Robin appeared intermittently in the series Awards and honors EditIn 2002 TV Guide compiled a list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time as part of the magazine s 50th anniversary Winnie the Pooh was given the honor of number 27 On April 11 2006 Pooh was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame being the fourth Disney character to receive one after Mickey Mouse Snow White and Donald Duck The star is located on 6834 Hollywood Blvd Controversies in China Edit Meme comparing Piglet and Winnie the Pooh to Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and Xi Jinping respectively See also Censorship in China Winnie the Pooh has been used in political satire and has created controversies in China since 2013 In that year critics compared an image of Pooh and his friend Tigger to a picture of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US president Barack Obama who met at the G20 in Saint Petersburg Russia Cartoons of Xi as Winnie the Pooh were regarded as disrespectful but they continued to be used by critics Dissident Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia were photographed holding Pooh mugs as an act of protest Some commentators have speculated that the movie Christopher Robin has been banned in China as a result of these controversies 7 8 Filmography EditTheatrical shorts Edit Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree 1966 Sterling Holloway Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day 1968 Sterling Holloway Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too 1974 Sterling Holloway Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons 1981 Hal Smith Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore 1983 Hal SmithFeature length films Edit The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 1977 Sterling Holloway Pooh s Grand Adventure The Search for Christopher Robin 1997 DVD Jim Cummings A Valentine for You 1999 DVD Jim Cummings Seasons of Giving 1999 DVD Jim Cummings The Tigger Movie 2000 Jim Cummings The Book of Pooh Stories from the Heart 2001 DVD Jim Cummings Mickey s Magical Christmas Snowed in at the House of Mouse 2001 DVD Jim Cummings Mickey s House of Villains 2002 DVD Jim Cummings A Very Merry Pooh Year 2002 DVD Jim Cummings Piglet s Big Movie 2003 Jim Cummings Springtime with Roo 2004 DVD Jim Cummings Pooh s Heffalump Movie 2005 Jim Cummings Pooh s Heffalump Halloween Movie 2005 DVD Jim Cummings Winnie the Pooh 2011 Jim Cummings Christopher Robin 2018 Jim Cummings Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers 2022 Jim Cummings bootleg version Television series Edit Welcome to Pooh Corner 1983 1986 Hal Smith The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 1988 1991 Jim Cummings House of Mouse 2001 2003 Jim Cummings The Book of Pooh 2001 2004 Jim Cummings My Friends Tigger amp Pooh 2007 2010 Jim Cummings Doc McStuffins 2017 guest appearance Jim Cummings Monsters at Work 2021 brief cameo Playdate With Winnie The Pooh 2024 Jim CummingsTelevision specials Edit Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too 1991 Jim Cummings Boo to You Too Winnie the Pooh 1996 Jim Cummings A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving 1998 Jim Cummings A Valentine for You 1999 Jim CummingsSee also EditList of Winnie the Pooh charactersReferences Edit Fleming Mike Jr April 2 2015 Disney Sets Live Action Winnie The Pooh Film Alex Ross Perry To Write Deadline Ehrbar Greg April 26 2016 Disney s Winnie the Pooh amp The Honey Tree on Records Cartoon Research Hollis Tim Ehrbar Greg 2006 Mouse Tracks The Story of Disneyland Records University Press of Mississippi ISBN 978 1617034336 Winnie the Pooh And Tigger Too Discogs Appeals court denies bid by Pooh creator s heir to revoke rights Los Angeles Associated Press December 8 2005 Justices pooh pooh Winnie the Pooh CNN Archived from the original on June 29 2006 Kristof Nicholas 9 October 2019 Opinion Let s Not Take Cues From a Country That Bans Winnie the Pooh The New York Times Haas Benjamin 7 August 2018 China bans Winnie the Pooh film after comparisons to President Xi The Guardian External links EditWinnie the Pooh 2011 at Internet Movie Database Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Winnie the Pooh Disney character amp oldid 1142345625, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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