The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story of the pack is offered to Mowgli, but he turns it down and gives it to Little Raksha. The next day, Bagheera and Baloo give Mowgli a book featuring jungle animals. He thanks them and then runs off. The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story is a 1998 live-action direct-to-video film directed by Nick Marck, produced by Mark H. Orvitz and written by José Rivera and Jim Herzfeld. It is the third film adaptation by The Walt Disney Company of the Mowgli stories from "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling. It stars Brandon Baker, and features the
Panther Girl of the Kongo inhabitants. "Jean Evans", the Panther Girl, and friend "Larry Sanders" encounter this plot while on a photo safari in the region. "Panther Girl of the Kongo" was budgeted at $172,793 although the final negative cost was $179,341 (a $6,548, or 3.8%, overspend). It was the most expensive Republic serial of 1955. It was filmed between 16 August and 4 September 1954 under the working title "Panther Woman of the Kongo". The serial's production number was 1939. In order to make it possible to use significant stock footage from the earlier "Jungle Girl", and cheaply pad out "Panther Girl of the