| Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore | |
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| Directed by | Rick Reinert |
| Produced by | Rick Reinert |
| Written by | Peter Young Steve Hulett Tony L. Marino A. A. Milne |
| Narrated by | Laurie Main |
| Starring | Hal Smith Ralph Wright Dick Billingsley John Fiedler Paul Winchell Julie McWhirter Kim Christianson |
| Music by | Steve Zuckerman Robert & Richard Sherman (songs) |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 11, 1983 |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore is a Disney Winnie-the-Pooh animated featurette, based on two chapters from the books Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, released on March 11, 1983 with the re-issue of The Sword in the Stone. It has since been released on VHS and DVD release of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
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Home video
The first VHS release for Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore was Winnie the Pooh and Friends, released on VHS in April 2, 1984, followed by other releases of this film, including the October 2, 2000 Storybook Classics release.
Synopsis
The story begins with Pooh taking a walk to a wooden bridge over a river where he likes to do nothing in particular. On this particular day, though, he finds a fir cone and ends up dropping it in the river. Noticing that, due to the flow of the river, the cone went under the bridge, Pooh decides to make a racing game out of it. As the game uses sticks instead of cones, he calls the game Poohsticks.
Sometime later, while Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit and Roo are playing Poohsticks, they see Eeyore floating in the river below. After a somewhat successful attempt to get him to shore, he tells them that he fell in due to being bounced from behind. When Tigger arrives on the scene, he claims that his bounce was actually a cough, but with some outside help from narrator Laurie Main, the animals find out that Tigger had indeed deliberately bounced Eeyore.
As Eeyore seems particularly depressed this day, Pooh follows him and asks what's wrong. Eeyore answers that he's unhappy because it's his birthday, and nobody has taken any notice to celebrate it. Pooh decides to give him a jar of honey, but doesn't get far before he has a hunger attack and ends up eating the honey. Upon realizing this, he decides to ask Owl for help. Owl writes a misspelled greeting on the pot and then flies off to tell Christopher Robin about the birthday. Piglet has planned to give a balloon to Eeyore, until he accidentally causes it to pop.
Piglet is very sad that his gift for Eeyore is no longer good, but he presents it to him anyway, and only a minute later, Pooh brings the empty pot. Eeyore is gladdened, as he can now put the broken balloon into the pot and remove it again. Pooh and his friends then pitch in and plan a surprise party for their friend.
During the party, Tigger arrives and welcomes himself to the festivities. This angers Rabbit, who opines that Tigger should leave because of the way he treated Eeyore before. Roo wants Tigger to stay, and Christopher Robin's solution is for everyone to go to the bridge and play Poohsticks. Eeyore, a first-time player, wins the most games out of everybody, while Tigger does not win at all. Eeyore's secret for winning, as he explains to Tigger afterwards, is to "let [his] stick drop in a twitchy sort of way." Pooh and Piglet decide that "Tigger's all right, really."
Voice cast
- Laurie Main as The Narrator
- Hal Smith as Owl and Winnie the Pooh.
- Ralph Wright as Eeyore
- John Fiedler as Piglet
- Paul Winchell as Tigger
- Will Ryan as Rabbit
- Kim Christianson as Christopher Robin
- Julie McWhirter as Kanga
- Dick Billingsley as Roo
Winnie the Pooh Featurettes
- Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree - (1966)
- Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day - (1968)
- Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! - (1974)
- Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore - (1983)
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