Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies; cartoon, the 1960 Person to Bunny, (starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd) and directed by Friz Freleng.
This was the last cartoon for which Arthur Q. Bryan would supply the voice of Elmer Fudd, as he died before the cartoon was released.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour found a fun website on youtube - What If. The video we've been watching is - What if Earth suddenly stopped spinning?
Long story short; it would be bad
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1967 animated feature, The Jungle Book, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and voiced by Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley, and Bruce Reitherman. The Jungle Book was the last animated feature Walt Disney supervised before his death in December 1966. The film was release to very positive reviews and became one of Disney's highest-grossing animated film in the United States and Canada, It has been rumored that this film had the second most dope smoked during production (you go look up that bit of trivia); the first being The Blue Brothers Movie. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Jungle Book.
Walt Disney died during production of this film. Many people wondered at what the studio's fate would be, particularly the animation division. The film performed extremely well at the box office, ensuring that the animators would not be put out of work. Had the film failed, it is likely that animation would have been closed down at the Disney studio.
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