Childhood---ruined. - Josh

sweet merciful strawberries, now i'm going to have a nightmares about Christopher Robin being set upon by a tiger. - idnan

that is amazing; who'd have thought? - Herman I May

Christopher Robin is really Tarzan? -

Very smart of Disney. Keeping costs down benefits the movie goer as much as the studio. - Michael Tefft

It makes sense considering that the Disney films back in the day were literally animated .. aka done by hand and not computers. I think that makes them more enjoyable knowing all of the hard work that went into them. - ::Kristen::

Those rich cheap bastards! - Outsanity

Hey, that was a good scene. Re-use it again :) - TDavid

I totally noticed that Mowgli moved a LOT like Arthur in "Sword in the Stone" when I was little! When I was younger... ok, yesterday! - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

They used to have to wash the animation cels and reuse them as well. This stuff has always been pretty expensive to produce. You need someone to draw it, someone to ink it, someone to paint, need gorgeous backgrounds, massive camera setups, etc etc etc. If there aren't enough people then yeah two dudes have to do all of that. All under a tight budget and tight time constraints. - sergiooo

For those interested in possibly re-using other Disney (and others) backgrounds, check out: http://animationbackgrounds.blogspot.com/ - Mark Trapp

shh, don't tell anyone: even bloggers sometimes re-use their content. - Benedikt Koehler

Mark: thanks for that link. I loves those background. - Chris Rivait

@Mark, cool site thanks. - Andrew Smith

wow, once again I learnt something I didn't know - Jon Dillon

Just learnt that learnt is British english only too. I'm on a roll today - Jon Dillon

Wow! very interesting - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Surprise!! we re-use code, why shouldn't they re-use creatives? smart!! (but i do feel sorta ripped off ...childhood is now less cool all of a sudden...nah! just kidding!!) - Susan Beebe

Stock footage comes to the animation world.... - kamla bhatt

Smart of cheap? - Kol Tregaskes

Same layout, but pretty different. There's no pooh in Jungle Book. Just that big bear. Maybe Jungle Book is just a localized version of Winnie the Pooh? ;) - Patrick Beard from twhirl

Interesting, now I wanna watch them! :) - Oli Kenobi

Makes sense, you have to reuse anything you can in animation, it's costly to produce every single frame, especially when they're hand drawn. They don't completely reuse the frame, just the basic, note each example was altered to fit into its movie/art style. If they didn't reuse the frames, body positions, and animations then each Disney movie would have a different feel entirely, you wouldn't get that "Disney-looking-movie" feel that everyone likes. - xero

and they recycle plots, too! - Bill Sodeman

In the programming world, it's called DRY, "Don't Repeat Yourself." :) - imabonehead

They also re-use other character and stories taken from other animation studios: http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2... - Diego Magnani

Interesting to see how similar those scenes are. - Daniel Schildt

in the software industry we call it...JUST SHIP IT - Ryan

"By the time they find the bugs, we'll have them fixed and can send them a quick hot-fix." If I only had a nickel every time I heard that one!! - iTad