French postcard. Image: Walt Disney Productions. Publicity still for The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967). It was Walt Disney’s lead story man and writer Bill Peet who first suggested making an animated version of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Jungle Book’. In the film version, The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967), baby Mowgli is abandoned in the jungle…

Read more →