As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

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Professional Sports as of 1961

Baseball
American League
Baltimore Orioles
Boston Red Sox
Chicago White Sox
Cleveland Indians
Detroit Tigers
Kansas City Athletics
New York Yankees
Texas Rangers (Formerly Washington Senators)

National League
Brooklyn Dodgers
Chicago Cubs
Cincinnati Reds
Milwaukee Braves
Minnesota Twins
Philadelphia Phillies
Pittsburgh Pirates
St. Louis Cardinals

Pacific Coast League
Hollywood Stars
Los Angeles Angels
Portland Beavers
Sacramento Solons
San Diego Padres
San Francisco Seals
Seattle Rainiers
Vancouver Mounties

FOOTBALL
National Football League
Eastern Division
Dallas Cowboys
Cleveland Browns
New York Giants
Philadelphia Eagles
Pittsburgh Steelers
St. Louis Cardinals
Washington Redskins

Western Division
Baltimore Colts
Chicago Bears
Detroit Lions
Green Bay Packers
Los Angeles Rams
Minnesota Vikings
San Francisco 49ers

American Football League
Eastern Division
Boston Patriots
Buffalo Bills
Houston Oilers
New York Titans

Western Division
Dallas Texans
Denver Broncos
Oakland Raiders
San Diego Chargers

Canadian Football League
Eastern Division
Hamilton Tiger Cats
Montreal Alouettes
Ottawa Rough Riders
Toronto Argonauts

Western Division
BC Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Eskimos
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Winnipeg Blue Bombers

BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
Eastern Division
Boston Celtics
New York Knicks
Philadelphia Warriors
Syracuse Nationals

Western Division
Chicago Zephyrs
Cincinnati Royals
Detroit Pistons
Los Angeles Lakers
St. Louis Hawks

HOCKEY
National Hockey League
Boston Bruins
Chicago Blackhawks
Detroit Red Wings
Montreal Canadiens
New York Rangers
Toronto Maple Leafs

 

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Walt Disney Productions
Unable to acquire the film rights to Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, the studio proceeds full steam ahead on production of Chanticleer, The Sword in the Stone, Mary Poppins and Alice in Wonderland. Release dates for these titles have yet to be announced.

Hanna-Barbera
The Flintstones continues to pay big dividends in primetime, but Top Cat would probably perform better on Saturday mornings. Hoping to capitalize on the Flintstone momentum, the studio will launch The Jetsons in primetime for the Fall 1962 season.

Jay Ward
Rocky and Bullwinkle are still a major hit on television. George of the Jungle is still about five years away at the most.

Warner Bros. Cartoons
WB is still cranking out theatrical shorts, but it appears that the halcyon days of the Looney Tunes appear to be over.

Famous Studios
At this point, Famous has pivoted full time towards television. Under the watchful eye of Al Brodax, Tintin and a new Popeye series are the moneymakers for Famous so far. Famous's newest character, Deputy Dawg, debuts in Fall '62.

Bob Clampett Productions
Beany and Cecil have finally spun off from Matty's Funday Funnies.

Grantray-Lawrence
Most of GL's output so far has consisted of commercials. The Planet Patrol pilot still went unsold.

Rembrandt Films
After being let go by Famous Studios, Gene Deitch moved to Prague to join this studio. MGM somehow managed to get the Tom and Jerry cartoons back up and running with Deitch, but the studio's head of production Joe Vogel has been on the hotseat after a few expensive live action flops.

UPA
Henry G. Saperstein, a notorious bean counter, is counting on Gay Purr-ee to be successful enough to keep UPA going. But so far, Mister Magoo is still the lone cash cow for this studio.

Sib Tower 12 Productions
Chuck Jones and his business partner Les Goldman have formed this little outfit after Chuck was laid off by Warner Bros. Just a year or so ago, Chuck was producing some Little Audrey, Baby Huey and Herman and Katnip shorts for Fox on a freelance basis.

 

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George Lucas (From the 2004 documentary A Legacy of Filmmakers)
"The old time entrepreneurs that built the studios were leaving. The corporations were taking them over. So there was a lot of chaos in the industry at that point."

Martin Scorsese (From the 2004 documentary A Legacy of Filmmakers)
"The old system was finally gone. It was finally gone."

In 1962, the Music Corporation of America (MCA) completed its purchase of Universal Pictures, an acquisition that was almost a decade in the making. Years earlier, MCA had acquired the pre-1953 Walter Lantz cartoon library when Lantz decided to merge his cartoon studio with Fleischer-Terry to form Famous Studios.

Speaking of Famous Studios, the Miami-based cartoon factory has also been sold to MCA. That purchase alone gives both parties more than a few perks. For starters, Famous will move onto the Universal backlot. Second, Walter Lantz, Al Brodax and Richard Fleischer will each become three of MCA's larger shareholders behind Wasserman. Third, Universal Pictures will finally have full custody of Woody Woodpecker and the rest of Walter Lantz's characters after only having the distribution rights just two decades earlier.

At the center of MCA's aggressive expansion was Lew Wasserman (above), who succeeded Jules Stein as MCA's chairman at the end of World War II. Under Wasserman's watch, MCA is currently building a new headquarters building along Lankershim Boulevard, overlooking the Universal lot.

And if you thought Wasserman was finished, he has more on his shopping list. Against his predecessor's wishes, Wasserman has his eyes on purchasing a 50% stake in the Los Angeles Rams football club from Dan Reeves as early as 1963.

Wasserman watches his predecessor Jules Stein sign his name on a steel beam before the topping out ceremony for MCA Tower.

MCA Tower under construction on the right.

Starting in the summer of 1964, Universal will offer tours of its vast backlot for the first time since the Silent Era.

 

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The Jetsons

Launched on September 23, 1962 on ABC

Sponsored by
3M

Production Company
Hanna-Barbera

Voices
George O'Hanlon as George Jetson
Daws Butler as Elroy Jetson and Spencer Cogswell
Penny Singleton as Jane Jetson
Janet Waldo as Judy Jetson
Jean Vander Pyl as Rosie
Mel Blanc as Mr. Spacely
Don Messick as Astro and RUDI
Howard Morris as Henry Orbit
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Nara Disneyland

Nara Disneyland opened its gates on February 14, 1963. Under the compromise that was reached a year earlier, the Matsuo Entertainment Company would actually own the theme park while Walt Disney Productions, through its WED subsidiary, maintained creative control.

@Light_Star 1
Most of the stuff at Nara is pretty much the same, but with Disney's involvement, they should be okay moneywise.​

 

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The Sword in the Stone
Released by Walt Disney on December 25, 1963

Narration by Liev Schreiber (From the documentary Walt Disney: An American Original)
"Walt Disney acquired the film rights to T.H. White's novel The Sword in the Stone in February 1939, but production would not officially begin until after World War II. Storyboards and character concepts would be thrown around on and off during the postwar period."

"After 20 years of development, Walt finally greenlit The Sword in the Stone for a December 1963 release. Unfortunately, the assassination of John F. Kennedy overshadowed the film's premiere."

Walt Disney, Jr. (1985 interview on Good Morning America)
"I was sending applications to USC, UCLA and Calarts when Dad said he needed a voice for Arthur. There was another actor they tried for that character. His name was Rickie Sorensen. I didn't find out till years later that his voice changed halfway through. So, Dad and Woolie Reitherman had to scramble to find another boy to do the voice, and I sheepishly asked Dad if I could try it. I recorded my lines in maybe three or four days."

Directed by
Wolfgang Reitherman

Story by
Bill Peet

Based on the book by
T.H. White

Voices
Walt Disney, Jr. [1] as Arthur
Karl Swenson as Merlin
Martha Wentworth as Mad Madam Mim
Junius Matthews as Archimedes
Sebastian Cabot as Sir Ector
Norman Alden as Kay
Alan Napier as Pelinore

[1] Billed as "Junior."

Animators
Milt Kahl
Frank Thomas
Ollie Johnston
John Lounsbery
Cliff Nordberg
Hal Ambro
John Sibley
Hal King
Eric Larson
Eric Cleworth
Whitey Larkin [2]
Helen O'Grady [2]

[2] Fictional artist​

 

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1964 New York World's Fair

At the 1964 New York World's Fair, Disney produced four exhibits that enabled Walt to expand the technology of attractions at Disneyland and Disney parks yet to built.

Mary Poppins

Released on August 27, 1964 by Walt Disney.

That same year, Walt released a film considered by many to be his crowning achievement. Mary Poppins would go on to become the biggest box office hit of 1964-65. It would also take home five Oscars, including Best Actress for Julie Andrews and Best Song for Chim Chim Cher-ee.

Also in 1964, Walt reached an agreement with Anheuser-Busch, clearing the way for Budweiser to become the official beer of Riverfront Square. The indoor park is slated to open in 1966 along with a new ballpark for the Cardinals.

Although few people knew it, Walt was already forming multiple shell companies to buy up parcels of land in Florida for a secret project.

In the midst of all this, Walt Disney, Jr., now 18, graduated from John Burroughs High School and was accepted into the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.​

 

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Walt Disney Productions will debut a new logo in 1965 to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Disneyland. The studio has two animated films lined up to close out the decade. Chanticleer will see theatres in 1967, followed by Alice in Wonderland in 1969. Outside of animation, Disney narrowly survived a hostile takeover attempt that would've merged the company with DC Comics and Motown Records. The identity of the individual or corporation behind the takeover attempt will be revealed soon.

Famous Studios is pretty much one of the Last of the Mohicans when it comes to theatrical shorts. Hector Heathcote, Woody Woodpecker and Chilly Willy are the last remaining theatrical short series still continuously being produced. Bob Kuwahara, who created Hashimoto-san for the studio, passed away last year at the age of just 63. With Al Brodax in charge of television animation, Famous will launch The Beatles and Cool McCool in 1966. For 1968, Famous will release its first animated feature in 24 years, The Beatles' Yellow Submarine. Another ace in the hole for Famous is a guy named Ralph Bakshi.

Sib Tower 12 is now MGM Animation/Visual Arts. After Chuck Jones's deal with Fox expired, he moved onto MGM, where he has helped revive the Tom and Jerry series for theatrical shorts. Also on the big screen, Jones is hard at work on The Jungle Book, which will debut in 1967 [1]. Other upcoming projects: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966; TV special), The Bear that Wasn't (1967; short).

[1] The Chuck Jones/MGM Jungle Book will be an earlier adaptation of Jones' Kipling material; Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Mowgli's Brothers and The White Seal, which aired on TV in the mid 70's IOTL. It will also be one of the few MGM films to carry the abstract blue and gold lion logo that was used IOTL in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Grantray-Lawrence has been doing commercials for about eleven years now, but now, Marvel has licensed their superheroes for GL to produce two series for Saturday morning TV; The Marvel Super Heroes for Fall 1966 and Spider-Man for Fall 1967.

With the Flintstones and Jetsons both wrapping up their original runs, there's still a ton more projects being churned out by Hanna-Barbera. The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show and Sinbad Jr and the Magic Belt will debut on the small screen in Fall '65. In addition, HB is negotiating with Marge Buell on a possible Little Lulu series for 1968.

Superman makes his return to animation thanks to a new series being produced by Filmation for the Fall '66 season.

After the Rocky and Bullwinke Show wrapped up its original run, Jay Ward has moved on to his newest character, Hoppity Hooper.

Keep an eye out for Hal Seeger's Milton the Monster, coming to ABC-TV in Fall '65. Batfink debuts in Fall '66.

Total Television is going strong with Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo. Coming in Fall 1966: The Beagles.

 

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A Charlie Brown Christmas

First aired on December 9, 1965 on CBS.

Based on the comic strip Peanuts by
Charles M. Schulz

Directed by
Bill Melendez

Produced by
Bill Melendez
Lee Mendelson

Music
Vince Guaraldi

Voices
Peter Robbins as Charlie Brown
Chris Shea as Linus Van Pelt
Tracy Stratford as Lucy Van Pelt
Cathy Steinberg as Sally Brown
Chris Doran as Schroeder and Shermy
Katherine Mendelson as Patty [1]
Geoffrey Ornstein as Pig-Pen
Sally Dryer as Violet
Anne Altieri as Frieda
Bill Melendez as Snoopy

[1] Not to be confused with Peppermint Patty​

 

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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

Released by Walt Disney on February 4, 1966. Originally billed with the live action feature The Ugly Dachshund.

Based on the books by
A.A. Milne

Directed by
Wolfgang Reitherman

Music by
Buddy Baker

Songs by
Robert B. Sherman
Richard M. Sherman

Voices
Sebastian Cabot as the narrator
Sterling Holloway as Winnie the Pooh
Junius Matthews as Rabbit
Hal Smith as Owl
Howard Morris as Gopher
Barbara Luddy as Kanga
Clint Howard as Roo
Bruce Reitherman as Christopher Robin​

 

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The Braves led the way in ushering a brief relocation boom in baseball. Although the Braves never recorded a losing season in Milwaukee, attendance at County Stadium started to slide by the early Sixties. Around 1944, Lou Perini bought the Braves while they were still in Boston before moving the club to Milwaukee in 1953. By 1963, Perini suddenly sold the team to the LaSalle Corporation, led by Bill Bartholomay. After numerous attempts to revive fan support in Milwaukee failed, Bartholomay turned his attention to moving the Braves elsewhere.

Atlanta was going to get major league sports sooner or later. That was a fact. No team looking to move was stupid enough to turn down the corporate support promised by Coca-Cola.

The dream for Atlanta came true when the Braves arrived in 1966. That same year, the Falcons were accepted into the National Football League.

@Colonel Zoidberg
1966 also saw the addition of the Miami Dolphins into the upstart American Football League, making the Dolphins the very first professional sports franchise in the state of Florida.

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Riverfront Square

After a few years of negotiations and planning, Disney finally opened Riverfront Square on June 10, 1966. Walt Disney, Jr. had just completed his sophomore year at USC in time to join his father and Uncle Roy for the ribbon cutting ceremony. Also there were Anheuser-Busch CEO Gussie Busch, Missouri governor Warren Hearnes and St. Louis mayor Alfonso Cervantes.

Dedication Plaque:

RIVERFRONT SQUARE
Dedicated June 10, 1966

FOUNDING PARTNERS
Walt Disney Productions
Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
Ralston-Purina Company
McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
Edward D. Jones & Co.
Trans World Airline Corporation

Attractions

There wasn't really an icon for Riverfront Square except for a marquee outside the park. The park was designed to be indoors so that the park stayed open on rainy days.

The street level of Riverfront Square is divided into two halves. In Old St. Louis, a Mark Twain Riverboat serves as an all-ages restaurant while the Budweiser Lounge offers a place for the adults to kick back and relax. The main attraction of Old St. Louis is the Lewis and Clark Adventure, which takes guests on a canoe ride through a mythological version of the treacherous expedition.

Over in New Orleans Square, you might see the Jambalaya Jazz Band serenade guests. The main attractions of this realm are the Blue Bayou Restaurant and the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Also at New Orleans Square is the original Haunted Mansion.

The midlevel section of the park, located one floor below the street level, consists of two Circarama Theatres, two dark rides and an audio-animatronic theatre.

Dark rides
Adventure Thru Innerspace (Sponsored by Monsanto)

Audio Animatronic Theatre
Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln

Circarama Theatres
America The Beautiful
Davy Crockett's Greatest Adventures

The basement level serves as the "show buildings" for Pirates of the Caribbean and the Lewis and Clark Adventure.

TRIVIA
@Nivek
A month earlier, Busch Memorial Stadium opened, replacing Sportsman's Park as the home both the baseball and football Cardinals.

 

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By mid-1966, Paramount Pictures was in trouble. The former member of the "Big Five" was now a shell of its former self. The 1948 consent decree forced Paramount and other studios to sell off their former theatre chains. In the years that followed, the studio had to sell some assets just to stay in business.

Paramount already survived one takeover attempt by Chris-Craft Industries, but they couldn't escape the grasp of Charles Bluhdorn and his Gulf+Western firm. It was Bluhdorn that attempted a simultaneous hostile takeover of Walt Disney Productions, DC Comics and Motown Records a year ago, only to for all three to fight back.

With Paramount now under his control, Bluhdorn has Desilu circled next on his shopping list. Such a purchase would be convenient since Desilu is just next door to Paramount on the former RKO lot.

Gulf+Western's purchase of Paramount won't be the last corporate takeover, as the AVCO Corporation already has its eyes on the tiny Embassy Pictures studio. Taft Broadcasting has already bought Hanna-Barbera. Practically, most of the other Hollywood studios still running independently are ripe for corporate takeovers as the Golden Age entrepreneurs have either passed away or are retiring.​

 

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The first season of Batman ran on ABC in the Spring of 1966. Later that summer, a feature film was made. By this time, DC Comics, known at the time as National Periodical Publications, had survived a hostile takeover that would've merged the company with Walt Disney Productions and Motown Records.

Narration by Leonard Nimoy (From the documentary Star Trek Memories)
"Pitched by Gene Roddenberry as "Wagon Train to the stars," Star Trek launched on NBC on the evening of September 8, 1966. At the same time as the series' debut, production company Desilu sought to fend off a takeover attempt by Gulf+Western. Despite low expectations, Star Trek became another successful addition to Desilu's television portfolio along with Mannix and Mission Impossible."

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas

First aired on December 18, 1966 on CBS

Production Company
MGM Animation/Visual Arts

Directed by
Chuck Jones
Ben Washam

Story
Dr. Seuss
Based on his book

Voices
Boris Karloff as the Narrator and the Grinch
June Foray as Cindy Lou Who

Musical Score by
Eugene Poddany

"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"
Music by
Albert Hague

Lyrics by
Dr. Seuss

Sung by
Thurl Ravenscroft

Animation
Ken Harris
Lloyd Vaughn
Don Towsley
Richard Thompson
Tom Ray
Phil Roman​

 

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Animation as of 1967...

MGM Animation/Visual Arts is hard at work on The Jungle Book, which will be in theatres in Thanksgiving 1967. Thanks to the success of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Dr. Seuss will have Horton Hears a Who available to MGM for a 1970 debut.

Hanna-Barbera has reached an agreement with Marjorie Buell for the rights to produce a Little Lulu series, which is expected to air on Saturday mornings starting in Fall '67.

20th Century Fox has hired Filmation to produce a revival of its Movietoon characters for a new TV series expected in Fall '67.

Yellow Submarine, starring and featuring the music of The Beatles, is still on track to become Universal Pictures' first feature animated film since Walter Lantz's 1949 clunker Hans Brinker.

DePatie-Freleng is still making cartoons for Warner Bros., but now with Seven Arts interested in merging with WB, it looks like DFE's partnership with Warners may be nearing its end.

Grantray-Lawrence's failure to gain any real traction has come back to bite them hard. The first season of Spider-Man may very well be GL's last hurrah unless a miracle happens.

Walt Disney Productions is still on track to release Chanticleer in 1967, with country superstar Roger Miller assuming the titular role.​

 

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Major League Baseball
American League
Eastern Division
Baltimore Orioles
Boston Red Sox
Chicago White Sox
Cleveland Indians
Detroit Tigers
New York Yankees

Western Division
Los Angeles Angels (From PCL)
Oakland Athletics (Formerly Kansas City)
Portland Beavers (From PCL)
Seattle Rainiers (From PCL)
Texas Rangers
Vancouver Mounties (From PCL; Formerly Oakland Oaks; Moved in 1956)

National League
Eastern Division
Atlanta Braves (Formerly Milwaukee; Moved in 1966)
Brooklyn Dodgers
Cincinnati Reds
Minnesota Twins (Formerly New York Giants; Moved in 1958)
Philadelphia Phillies
Pittsburgh Pirates

Western Division
Chicago Cubs
Hollywood Stars (From PCL)
Houston Astros (From PCL; Formerly Sacramento Solons; Moved in 1962)
San Diego Padres (From PCL)
San Francisco Seals (From PCL)
St. Louis Cardinals

National Football League
Eastern Conference
Capitol
Dallas Cowboys
New York Giants
Philadelphia Eagles
Washington Redskins

Century
Cleveland Browns
New Orleans Saints (Expansion)
Pittsburgh Steelers
St. Louis Cardinals

Western Conference
Central
Chicago Bears
Detroit LIons
Green Bay Packers
Minnesota Vikings

Coastal
Atlanta Falcons
Baltimore Colts
Los Angeles Rams
San Francisco 49ers

American Football League
Eastern Division
Boston Patriots
Buffalo Bills
Cincinnati Bengals (Expansion)
Miami Dolphins
New York Jets

Western Division
Denver Broncos
Houston Oilers
Kansas City Chiefs
Oakland Raiders
San Diego Chargers

Canadian Football League
Eastern Division
Hamilton Tiger Cats
Montreal Alouettes
Ottawa Rough Riders
Toronto Argonauts

Western Division
BC Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Eskimos
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Winnipeg Blue Bombers

National Basketball Association
Eastern Division
Baltimore Bullets
Boston Celtics
Cincinnati Royals
Detroit Pistons
New York Knicks
Philadelphia 76ers

Western Division
Chicago Bulls
Los Angeles Lakers
San Diego Rockets (Expansion)
San Francisco Warriors
Seattle Supersonics (Expansion)
St. Louis Hawks

American Basketball Association
Eastern Division
Indiana Pacers
Kentucky Colonels
Minnesota Muskies
New Jersey Americans
Pittsburgh Pipers

Western Division
Dallas Chaparrals
Denver Nuggets
Houston Mavericks
Los Angeles Stars
Oakland Oaks

National Hockey League
Eastern Division
Boston Bruins
Chicago Blackhawks
Detroit Red Wings
Montreal Canadiens
New York Rangers
Toronto Maple Leafs

Western Division (All Expansion)
Los Angeles Kings
Minnesota North Stars
Oakland Seals
Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins
St. Louis Blues

 

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Tomorrowland Renovation
Disneyland Park
Anaheim, California

New Attractions
Adventures thru Inner Space
Flight to the Moon
Carousel of Progress
Rocket Jets
People Mover
Circle Vision 360
Alpine Gardens

Existing Attractions
Matterhorn Bobsleds
Skyway to Fantasyland
Tomorrowland Autopia
Submarine Voyage Thru Liquid Space
Monorail
Tomorrowland Terrace Stage​

 

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The Jungle Book

Released on August 11, 1967

Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Produced by
MGM Animation/Visual Arts

Supervising Director
Chuck Jones

Sequence Directors
Ben Washam
Abe Levitow

Executive Producers
Les Goldman
Earl Jonas

Supervising Animators
Lloyd Vaughn
Ken Harris
Richard Thompson
Tom Ray
Phil Roman
Don Towsley
Phil Monroe
Zack Dillinger*
Leslie Alston*

*Fictional animator

Music
Eugene Poddany

Voices

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi segment
Shepard Menken as Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Orson Welles as Nag
June Foray as Nagaina
Matthew Garber as Teddy
Mel Blanc as Chuchundra
Lennie Weinrib as Darzee

Mowgli's Brothers segment
Kurt Russell as Mowgli
James Earl Jones as Baloo the Bear
Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera the Panther
John Vernon as Shere Khan
Mel Blanc as Tabaqui the Jackal
June Foray as Mother Wolf
Ben Wright as Father Wolf
John Abbott as Akela

White Seal segment
Roddy McDowall as Kotick
June Foray as Mackah
Thurl Ravenscroft as the Blue Whale
Candy Candido as the Sea Vitch
Hans Conried as the Sea Catch
Verna Felton (last film role) as the Sea Cow​

 

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Chanticleer

Released by Walt Disney on October 18, 1967

Directed by
Wolfgang Reitherman

Story
Larry Clemmons
Ralph Wright
Ken Anderson
Vance Gerry

Animators
Milt Kahl
Frank Thomas
Ollie Johnston
John Lounsbery
Ted Berman
Julius Svendsen
Bill Justice
Hal King
Eric Cleworth
Eric Larson
Fred Hellmich
Walt Stanchfield
John Ewing
Dick Lucas
Dan MacManus
David Tendlar (Formerly of Famous Studios)
Whitey Larkin*
Helen O'Grady*

*Fictional animators

Voices
Roger Miller as Chanticleer
Phil Harris as Patou
Julie Andrews as Goldie Pheasant
Cesar Romero as Poco Loco
J. Pat O'Malley as Reynard the Fox​