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Animated scene from The Jungle Book (1967) showing Mowgli reaching for a banana as Baloo the bear bends a tree to help him in a lush jungle setting.
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The Jungle Book

film by Reitherman [1967]
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The Jungle Book, American animated musical film, released in 1967, that was the last feature film personally overseen by Walt Disney. (It was still in production when he died in 1966.) The film is very loosely based on the short stories in Rudyard Kiplingā€™s The Jungle Book. Mowgli (voiced by Bruce Reitherman) is a young boy who, since infancy, has been raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. His safety is threatened, however, when the...

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