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Winnie-the-Pooh, Pooh Bear or Pooh for short (voiced by Sterling Holloway in 1965–1977, Hal Smith in 1979–1989 and Jim Cummings in 1988–present), is an anthropomorphic, soft-voiced bear. Despite being naïve and slow-witted, he is a friendly, thoughtful and sometimes insightful character who is always willing to help his friends and try ...
Winnie the Pooh is a media franchise produced by The Walt Disney Company, based on A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's stories featuring Winnie-the-Pooh. [1] It started in 1966 with the theatrical release of the short Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree.
Winnie-the-Pooh (also known as Edward Bear, Pooh Bear or simply Pooh) is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story commissioned by London's Evening News for Christmas Eve 1925.
For 1974's Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!, chapters 4 and 7 were adapted. The book's final chapter served as the basis for the epilogue to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and later 1997's direct-to-video movie Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin.
Among its overseas grosses, Winnie the Pooh had its largest gross in Japan with $4.13 million; [33] the country has had a long-standing affection for the character of Winnie the Pooh. [34] [35] [36] Other international grosses include $1.33 million in Germany, $1.29 million in Poland, $1.18 million in the UK and $1.14 million in Russia. [2]
Winnie-the-Pooh in an illustration by E. H. Shepard Illustration from Chapter 10: In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party and We Say Goodbye.. Some of the stories in Winnie-the-Pooh were adapted by Milne from previous published writings in Punch, St. Nicholas Magazine, Vanity Fair and other periodicals. [3]
Western Publishing began publishing Winnie the Pooh as a quarterly comic book in January 1977, and published 33 issues, the last released in 1984. This book predated the Winnie the Pooh comic strip by a year and a half, but Sir Brian and the Dragon—introduced in the strip in June 1978—began appearing in the comic book with issue #14 (Aug 1979).
The film joins three previously released Winnie-the-Pooh animated featurettes based on the original A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard sources, with extra bridging material of Pooh interracting with the Narrator to introduce the three stories: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974).