Winnie the Pooh and Friends
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Winnie the Pooh and Friends is a compilation video released in 1984 from Walt Disney Home Video featuring the following 4 cartoon shorts:
- Winnie the Pooh and a Day for EeyoreWinnie the Pooh and a Day for EeyoreWinnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore is a Disney Winnie the Pooh animated featurette, based on two chapters from the books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, originally released theatrically on March 11, 1983, before the 1983 re-issue of The Sword in the Stone...
: a 1983 cartoon short where it's EeyoreEeyoreEeyore is a character in the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne. He is generally characterized as a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic, old grey stuffed donkey who is a friend of the title character, Winnie-the-Pooh....
's birthday and nobody has noticed. However, Pooh and his friends prove him wrong with a surprise birthday party and a game of Pooh Sticks. - Hooked BearHooked BearHooked Bear is a 1956 short film in the Humphrey the Bear series. The short can be found on disc 2 of Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts: 1920s–1960s.-See also:*In the Bag*Grin and Bear It*Bearly Asleep...
: a 1956 cartoon shot that had an opening that was later used to open the "Walt Disney Cartoon ClassicsWalt Disney Cartoon ClassicsWalt Disney Cartoon Classics was a series of cartoon compilations from Disney. It was their first attempt to put cartoons on home video. The first 14 volumes, from 1983–1986, came with 6 or 7 cartoons and ran from 30–60 minutes...
" videos. In this short Humphrey tries to get some fish but constantly throws them back into the lake when he spots a much bigger fish than the ones he has. This continues for quite some time in the cartoon and before the happy go lucky bear knows it fishing season is over and hunting season opens. - Hold that Pose: a Goofy cartoon short from 1950 where our hero is tired after a long days work and decides to get a hobby which is photographing. He goes to the Zoo and picks a vicious bear. Note that this short marks the first appearance of Humphrey which may seem hard to believe as the bear in this cartoon is a lot more vicious rather than the happy go lucky bear we are used to today; perhaps it's Humphrey's cousin or brother.
- In the BagIn the BagIn the Bag is Walt Disney's final theatrical cartoon short subject. It was released in 1956 by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by Jack Hannah. The short can be found on disc 2 of Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts: 1920s–1960s....
: a 1956 cartoon short which is very popular because of the song by the same name of the title. In this last appearance of Humphrey and Ranger J Woodlore the tourists have left the park leaving trash everywhere so the lazy ranger gets the bears to help him, but then the bears discover his trick and dump their bags of garbage on the ground. So the Ranger cooks up a dish called Chicken cacciatore, but will not give it to the bears unless they clean up their section of the park. So the mean bears put all of their garbage into Humphrey's section, but unfortunately the bag breaks so Humphrey hides the garbage under a bush. Next, he tries to burn it, but, in a cameo appearance, Smokey BearSmokey BearSmokey Bear is a mascot of the United States Forest Service created to educate the public about the dangers of forest fires. An advertising campaign featuring Smokey was created in 1944 with the slogan, "Smokey Says – Care Will Prevent 9 out of 10 Forest Fires". Smokey Bear's later slogan,...
puts out the fire with his foot and says "Only you can prevent wild fires." Strike 2! On a side note, the scene with Smokey was edited at one time, but it has been reinstated in later showings. Finally the crazy bear puts all of the trash in a geyser (known as the Old Fateful) causing it to spill garbage everywhere and finally results with Humphrey getting to clean up all of the garbage instead of eating his chicken cacciatore.