In 2000, Disney released the feature film The Tigger Movie in which the character of Tigger played the leading role. Pooh appeared with Tigger in the anti-drug animated TV special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. 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. The live-action TV series Welcome to Pooh Corner ran on the Disney Channel from 1983 to 1986. A fourth featurette, Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore, was released in 1983. The 1977 release featured new bridging material and a new ending. 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). 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'). 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'. These early films were based on several of the original stories and the distinctive artwork made popular by Stephen Slesinger, Inc. and made a series of animated films about him. In 1961, Walt Disney Productions licensed certain film and other rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh characters, stories and trademarks from Stephen Slesinger, Inc. Milne in 1961.Īdaptation and development by Disney Disney first received certain licensing rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, characters, and trademarks from Stephen Slesinger, Inc.

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