Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (1983)

Directed by

Rick Reinert

Genre

family, animation

Country

United States

Runtime

25 min

Rated

G

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 60 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Eeyore is feeling down on his birthday so his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood try to cheer him up. They organize a party and give him presents to show they care.

gentlecheerfulwhimsicalplayfulcozywarmlightheartednostalgic

What happens

Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore is a 1983 American animated short film based on the sixth chapter of both books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne. Directed by Rick Reinert, the short features the voices of Paul Winchell, John Fiedler, Will Ryan, Ralph Wright, and Hal Smith. This short is notable for being Ralph Wright's final performance as Eeyore. Produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution, the short initially received limited release on March 11, 1983, before expanding to a wide release on March 25 as part of a double feature with the re-issue of The Sword in the Stone, which it accompanied in most countries except Australia, where it screened alongside a rerelease of the Angela Lansbury musical, Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Additionally, the animation was outsourced, produced by Rick Reinert Productions, uncredited in the final film. It would be the first Disney animated film since the 1938 Silly Symphonies short Merbabies to be produced by an outside studio. The company had also previously produced the educational Disney short Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons in 1981. Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore was the fourth and final animated featurette in the theatrical Disney Winnie the Pooh series, adapted from the Pooh books by A.A. Milne. The three previous shorts were combined into the feature-length The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, released in 1977. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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