The History of Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh&

FriendsFrom Paper

to Small Screen to Big Screen

Winnie-the-Pooh is a fictional bear created by A. A.

Milne.

Pooh is the main character in Milne’s books:

(published in 1926) (published in 1928)

The setting of the stories is based on the

Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England.

The Hundred Acre Woods

Some of Pooh Bear's friends include

PigletTigger

EeyoreRabbit

Kanga

Roo

Owl

The books written by A. A. Milne were illustrated by E.H. Shepard

The first editions of the books contained simple line drawings.

Shepard colored his original line drawings for new editions of Winnie the Pooh (1974)

‘The Pooh Story Book’ (1976) contained

new line & color pictures by Shepard.

The Pooh stories were later made into a series of Winnie the Pooh featurettes produced

by Walt Disney Productions.

Released in1966

Released in1968 Released in

1974Released in

1983

Disney’s animators made that “silly ol’ bear” and his friends come to life!

Notice that everything is outlined in black!

Not much shading!

“The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh”

Comprised of the 1st three short filmsPooh’s 1st full-length feature filmReleased on video in 1977

25th Anniversary Edition trailer

Released again in 2002 on DVD as the 25th Anniversary Edition

Disney’s“The New Adventures

of Winnie the Pooh”

TV seriesAired on ABC from 1988 - 1991Based on “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh” movie Very bright colors!

Characters are rather

“flat”.

Walt Disney presents

“The Tigger Movie”

First time Pooh and friends are on “the big screen” Released to theaters in 2000Nearly 60% of animation done by Japanese artists

Light and airy watercolor background

More detail added to artwork More interesting and elaborate moves

Walt Disney presents

“Pooh’s Heffalump Movie”Most recent Pooh animationShown in theaters in 2005Characters are more 3-dimensional

See how Pooh has changed!

The End

Silly ol’ bear!

ByJoDitt

Williams2006

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Movie clips: 25th Anniversary Edition , http://disneyvideos.disney.go.com/moviefinder/products/3253603.html