George Desantis

Yet another adaptation of Pooh getting stuck in Rabbit's door from the second half of the 1966 Walt Disney short film, "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree," which is itself an adaptation of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter Two: "In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place." But this one is remarkable for being one of the first, and based on its 1965 copyright and the fact that a couple of the characters do not look like their finalized versions in the movie it was apparently created from an earlier draft of the script and preliminary designs ahead of the film's completion.

Introducing himself as Samuel J. Gopher, this prototype looks cuter and more cheerful with his dirty-blonde dye-job and white belly stripe:

https://i.imgur.com/sazBRkj.jpg


And check out this version of Piglet who looks like he's out of the the Hundred-Acre Wood jail on a work-release program:

https://i.imgur.com/VHaKGHt.jpg

An amusing artifact, to say the least.

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... )… (meer)