The Jungle Book - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Jungle Book"
The Jungle Book (1967)
Timing:
1:18 (78 min)
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Editor
Tom Acosta
Editor
Norman Carlisle
Editor
Original Music Composer
Orchestrator
Walter Sheets
Orchestrator
Animation
Hal King
Animation
Fred Hellmich
Animation
Walt Stanchfield
Animation
John Ewing
Animation
Dick N. Lucas
Animation
Production Manager
Novel
Story
Songs
Music Editor
Evelyn Kennedy
Music Editor
Sound
Robert O. Cook
Sound
Animation Director
Background Designer
Bill Layne
Background Designer
Al Dempster
Background Designer
Art Riley
Background Designer
Frank Armitage
Background Designer
Layout
Basil Davidovich
Layout
Dale Barnhart
Layout
Sylvia Roemer
Layout
Animation Production Assistant
John Tucker
Animation Production Assistant
What's left behind the scenes
- This is the 19th feature-length Disney animated film and the last one that Walt Disney himself participated in. Disney died in 1966 at the age of 65 while work on the film was still underway.
- Initially, Mowgli was voiced by David Alan Bailey, but work on the film lasted three years, his voice began to change, and as a result, Mowgli in the film speaks with the voice of Bruce Reitherman.
- Initially, jazz singer Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) was cast to voice King Louie, but he was later replaced by Italian-American singer Louis Prima (1910-1978). Walt Disney decided that the audience might misunderstand if an African American voiced the monkey leader.
- The last cartoon produced by the company in which Walt Disney himself participated.
- Initially, jazz singer Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) was approved to voice King Louie, but he was later replaced by Italian-American singer Louis Prima (1910-1978). Walt Disney decided that the audience might misunderstand if an African American voiced the ape leader.
- As composer Richard M. Sherman later recounted, George Sanders (1906-1972), who provided the voice for Shere Khan, categorically refused to sing the song "Bare Necessities." Bill Lee (1916-1980) performed the song instead.
- Originally, it was planned that The Beatles would voice the vultures, as the vultures were made characters in the cartoon specifically at the personal request of the group's manager, Brian Epstein, to include his artists in the plot. However, when Epstein presented this idea to the members of the famous quartet, John Lennon strongly opposed it and advised Epstein to suggest Elvis Presley to Disney. Regardless, the vultures were made to visually resemble the members of The Beatles.
- Walt Disney passed away during the production of the cartoon. Had the cartoon failed at the box office, the animation department of his studio would likely have been closed. Fortunately, that did not happen.
- While working on the background, the animators studied real jungles of India.
- The suggestion to make an animated version of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” was first put forward by Bill Peet. Peet worked on the screenplay for a year, but when Walt Disney rejected the proposed script, Peet left the project and resigned from the studio. Disney and Peet’s visions for the future film were too different, bringing their quarter-century professional collaboration to an end.
- Walt Disney dreamed of John Wayne voicing Baloo, but he was busy with other projects and suggested Phil Harris, his close friend, an actor and singer, instead. To a certain extent, Harris voiced Baloo imitating Wayne.
- The public and film critics’ reaction to “The Sword in the Stone” (1963) was rather restrained, and Walt Disney set out to create a film that would be a guaranteed success. He instructed his animators to disregard Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book,” as he found the storyboard of the original script too gloomy and minor. Disney put animator Larry Clemons in charge of the project, gave him “The Jungle Book,” and immediately forbade Clemons from reading it.
- As composer Richard M. Sherman later recounted, George Sanders (1906-1972), the voice of Shere Khan, categorically refused to sing the song "That's What Friends Are For." Bill Lee (1916-1980) performed the song instead.
- Initially, it was planned that the vultures would be voiced by members of "The Beatles," as the vultures were made characters in the cartoon specifically at the personal request of the group's manager, Brian Epstein, to include his wards in the plot. When Epstein presented this idea to the famous quartet themselves, John Lennon strongly opposed it and advised Epstein to suggest Elvis Presley to Disney. Regardless, the vultures were made to visually resemble members of "The Beatles."
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