The Jungle Book - Production, Distribution and Exhibition
(Paper 2 Section A)
The Jungle Book (1967):
The Jungle Book (2016):
Production
1967:
Distribution
1967:
1967:
The Jungle Book (1967):
- The last film that Walt Disney worked on before his death in 1966
- Walt wanted an upbeat, lighthearted film- not like the dark, sinister tale of the book
- creators told not to read the book
The Jungle Book (2016):
- Follows Kipling's book more closely so has a darker tone than the 1967 film
- Is a limbo between live-action and animation
Production
1967:
- $20 million budget
- One of the original production writers- Bill Peat - quit over an argument over the themes and tones
- Technologies:
- Technique called xerography used
- electricity used to fuse images together
- led by Ken Anderson
- images hand drawn
- $175 million budget
- More true to the book
- Technologies:
- live-action/CGI technology-camera shakes when animal runs past
- voice-merged real animal sounds and human voice to make it more realistic
- used temporary swimming pools and CGI to makes the river shots
Distribution
1967:
- Re-released theatrically in North Amera three times, and also in Europe.
- Was released in the US on VHS in 1991 as part of the Walt Disney Classics product line and in the UK in 1993.
- Domestic release- 15th April 2016
- Released in the Dolby Vision format in Dolby Cinema in the US and is the first film to be released in Dolby Vision 3D
- The release date in India was strategic as is coincided with the Indian New Year and was a holiday in most parts of the country.
1967:
- critic rating- 7.2/10
- audience rating- 82% said they liked it
- it is Germany's highest-grossing film of all time in terms of admissions with 27.3 million tickets sold, nearly 10 million more than Titanic's 18.8 million tickets sold
- audience rating- 86% positive reviews
- won 1 Oscar and had multiple nominations
- critics said it didn't capture the nostalgia of 1967 film
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