What if Walt Disney was the producer of Looney Tunes/Walt Disney Animated Classics/The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions loosely based on the Mowgli stories by Rudyard Kipling.. The 21th Disney animated feature film, the film follows Mowgli, a feral child raised in the Indian jungle by wolves, as his friends Bagheera the panther, Baloo the bear, Rikki-Tikki the mongoose and Kaa the giant python, try to convince him to leave the jungle before the evil tiger Shere Khan and his idiotic sidekick Tabaqui the hyena arrive. Along the way, Mowgli encounters jungle creatures who don’t exactly have his best interests at heart, including Hiss, a sly and hungry snake who's colorful hypnotic gaze hypnotizes the man-cub, Nag and Nagaina, two cobras who try to kill Mowgli before Shere Khan does it and King Louie, an orangutan who wants to be a human, and wants Mowgli to teach him how to make fire.

The film contains a number of classic songs, including "The Bare Necessities" and "I Wanna Be Like You". Most of the songs were written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. The film was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and Chuck Jones. The film grossed over $73 million in the United States in its first release, and as much again from three re-releases.

After the film's success, Disney released a sequel What if Walt Disney was the producer of Looney Tunes/Walt Disney Animated Classics/The Jungle Book 2 in 2003. Despite having mostly negative reviews, The Jungle Book 2 was also a box sucess.

The film stands as one of the most popular Disney movies of all time. In its initial release, the popularity was comparable to that of The Lion King or Frozen, making it a great influence for some of today's biggest names in animation (such as Andreas Deja and Brad Bird). However, Disney wouldn't receive a similar success until The Little Mermaid in 1989. Though it should be noted that Disney did have a few successful films during that time period, most notably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1971, The Rescuers in 1977 and An American Tail in 1986.