The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh derived from three previously released animated featurettes Disney produced based upon the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne: "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree" (1966), "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" (1968), and "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too" (1974). Extra material was used to link the three featurettes together to allow the stories to merge into each other. A fourth, shorter featurette was added to bring the film to a close, originally made during production of "Blustery Day" (based on the presence of Jon Walmsley as Christopher Robin). The sequence was based on the final chapter of
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh featurette based on the stories. "Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore" premiered in theaters on March 11, 1983, but was never connected to the preceding films in any manner. "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" was the last film in the Disney canon in which Walt Disney had personal involvement, since one of the shorts ("Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree") was released during his lifetime, and he was involved in the production of "Blustery Day". It was always Walt Disney's intention to create a feature film, but he decided to make shorts instead — after