*** The 53rd Anniversary of the "Jungle Book"***
"Extremely Rare"Original Disney Production Hand Painted Cel of Disney's...
"The Jungle Book"
Featuring "MOWGLI"
From the 1967 Production
Comes framed and matted...Frame measures is 21 1/2 by 15 1/2. Inner image is 15 x 9 1/2.
Extremely hard to find
Cel has the signed stamp of authenticity ....
Scene correct background was created by the original collector and printed on acid free photo paper from Bluray elements. All mats are acid free. Protected by U. V. Plexiglass....Due to age, the cel paint as bubbled on certain parts of Mowgli (see photos).
This cel shows very well and stands out in any Animation Collection
The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Inspired by the Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name, it is the 19th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it was the last to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production. The plot follows Mowgli, a feral child raised in the Indian jungle by wolves, as his friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear try to convince him into leaving the jungle before the evil tiger Shere Khan arrives.
The early versions of both the screenplay and the soundtrack followed Kipling's work more closely, with a dramatic, dark, and sinister tone which Disney did not want in his family film, leading to writer Bill Peet and composer Terry Gilkyson being replaced. The casting employed famous actors and musicians Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, George Sanders and Louis Prima, as well as Disney regulars such as Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley and Verna Felton, and the director's son, Bruce Reitherman, as Mowgli.
The Jungle Book was released on October 18, 1967 to positive reception, with much acclaim to its soundtrack, featuring five songs by the Sherman Brothers and one by Gilkyson, "The Bare Necessities". The film grossed over $73 million in the United States in its first release, and as much again from two re-releases
Filmed Released 1967
