Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is an animated featurette released by The Walt Disney Company on February 4, 1966. Based on the Winnie the Pooh book by A. A. Milne, it was the only Winnie-the-Pooh production released while Walt Disney was still alive before his death 10 months later of lung cancer the same year on December 15. It was later added as a segment to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977). Music and lyrics were written by the...
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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is an animated featurette released by The Walt Disney Company on February 4, 1966. Based on the Winnie the Pooh book by A. A. Milne, it was the only Winnie-the-Pooh production released while Walt Disney was still alive before his death 10 months later of lung cancer the same year on December 15. It was later added as a segment to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977). Music and lyrics were written by the Sherman Brothers, (Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman). Background music was provided by Buddy Baker. This featurette served as a companion to the film The Ugly Dachshund.
The story opens with Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood going through his morning exercise routine. He discovers that his jar of honey is nearly empty and starts wondering where he can get honey as he eats what's left in the pot. He hears a bee fly by, and tries pulls his head out of the jar, then decides to try to get honey from the bee's hive in the nearby honey tree.
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