Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
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| Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (1983) | |
| Directed by | Rick Reinert |
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| Produced by | Rick Reinert |
| Written by | Story: Peter Young Steve Hulett Tony L. Marino Books: A. A. Milne |
| Narrated by | Laurie Main |
| Starring | Hal Smith Ralph Wright Dick Billingsley John Fiedler Paul Winchell Julie McWhirter Kim Christianson |
| Music by | Steve Zuckerman Robert & Richard Sherman (songs) |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 11, 1983 |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
Winnie 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, released on March 11, 1983 with the re-issue of The Sword in the Stone. It has since been released on VHS three times and was also included as a bonus feature on the DVD release of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
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[edit] Home video
Of the mid 1980s, Winnie the Pooh and Friends was released on VHS inside cardboard packaging, along with the laserdisc.
[edit] Synopsis
The story begins with Pooh taking a walk to a wooden bridge over a river where he likes to do nothing in particular. On this particular day, though, he finds a fir cone and ends up dropping it in the river. Noticing that, due to the flow of the river, the cone went under the bridge, Pooh decides to make a game out of it, calling it Poohsticks.
Sometime later, while Pooh, Piglet, Roo, and Rabbit are playing Poohsticks, they see Eeyore floating in the river below. After a somewhat successful attempt to get him to shore, he tells them that he fell in due to being bounced from behind. With some outside help from narrator Laurie Main, the animals find out that Tigger had bounced Eeyore into the river intentionally. (Tigger had claimed, until the narrator intervened, that his bounce was due to a cough.)
Pooh follows him and asks what's wrong. Eeyore answers that he's unhappy because it's his birthday, and there's nobody around to celebrate it with him. Pooh decides to give him a jar of honey, but doesn't get far before he has a hunger attack and ends up eating the honey. Upon realizing this, he decides to ask Owl for help. Owl writes a birthday greeting on the pot and then flies off to tell Christopher Robin. Piglet has planned for giving a balloon to Eeyore, until he accidentally causes it to pop.
Piglet is very sad that his gift for Eeyore is no longer good, but he presents it to him anyway. Eeyore doesn't mind, though, since he likes it this way, and later, Pooh brings the empty pot. Eeyore is especially gladdened, since he can now put the now broken balloon into the pot. Then Pooh and his friends pitch in and plan a surprise party for their friend.
After the party, everyone goes to the bridge to play several games of Poohsticks. Eeyore, a first-time player, wins the most games out of everybody, while Tigger does not win at all. Eeyore's secret for winning, as he explains to Tigger afterwards, is to "let [his] stick drop in a twitchy sort of way." Pooh and Piglet decide that "Tigger's all right, really."
[edit] Voice cast
- Laurie Main as The Narrator
- Hal Smith as Owl and Winnie the Pooh.
- Ralph Wright as Eeyore
- John Fiedler as Piglet
- Paul Winchell as Tigger
- Will Ryan as Rabbit
- Kim Christianson as Christopher Robin
- Julie McWhirter as Kanga
- Dick Billingsley as Roo
[edit] Trivia
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- Contrary to popular belief, this was not the last Pooh project to feature Paul Winchell as the voice of Tigger. Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin holds that honor.
- Sterling Holloway who was the original voice of Pooh does not do it in this story. Instead, Pooh is voiced by Hal Smith, who also voices Owl.
- The opening sequence to this short is the same one used on the other Pooh featurettes, except the music was re-done and the opening narration lines were done by Laurie Main instead of Sebastian Cabot, who had died long before this time. The cuckoo clock sound was also re-dubbed. The opening theme was also re-recorded using a different tone than the original one, and with different singers.
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