- The movie is actually made up of three classic Winnie the Pooh shorts: “Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree,” “Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day,” and “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too,” all edited together with animated wrap-arounds with Pooh and Piglet between each feature.
- This was technically the last Disney Animated Film released to have had Walt Disney’s personal touch on it. The first short, “Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree” was released just a few months before Disney’s death in 1966. He had had a hand in the production of “Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day” before his passing and it was release posthumously in 1968.
- “Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day” won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too” was nominated for the same Academy Award for its year of release, but lost.
- All backgrounds for the film were outlined in ink to keep with the sketchy style of the original Ernest Shepard illustrations.
- The scene where Rabbit tries to decorate Pooh’s bottom was one of Walt Disney’s favorite scenes from his films.
- The character of Gopher (not in the book, but at your service) was originally included to replace the original ‘A. A. Milne’ character, Piglet. The studio eventually reinstated Piglet in the second featurette, “Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.”
- For the character Piglet, hand gestures and other movements were used by the animators to create expressiveness, since he (and Pooh) had the appearance of dolls or stuffed animals with relatively simple button eyes.
- Tigger’s trademark “Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!” laugh by was ad-libbed by Paul Winchell as well as his famous “TTFN: Ta-Ta For Now!” line.
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