- Heffalumps and Woozles
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Heffalumps and Woozles " is a song from the 1968Walt Disney musical film featurette "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day ". It was written by theSherman Brothers .The song is about phantasmagoric
elephant s andweasel s becoming a threat to Pooh and hisfood source. The song serves as a soundtrack to the iconic, psychedelic "PoohNightmare " sequence where Pooh subconsciously deals with the theft of his all-too-precioushoney .Although the song is not used in the 2005 feature, "
Pooh's Heffalump Movie "; it is generally accepted that the song and accompanying visual montage is the inspiration of the Heffalump film. Such is more definitively the case with the relationship between the Sherman Brothers' song, "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers " and the 2000 release of "The Tigger Movie ".The song was considered very "of its time,"Fact|date=March 2008 borrowing liberally from the
psychedelic experimentation which was prevalent in the late 1960s. It has also been compared to the similarPink Elephants on Parade animated sequence from theDumbo movie.Fact|date=March 2008The song is the main theme in dream scenes of the Winnie The Pooh series of rides at the Disney Parks. Part of the song is played as part of the soundtrack of "
HalloWishes ", aHalloween -themedfireworks display held during "Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party " atWalt Disney World 'sMagic Kingdom .Literary Sources
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Sherman, Robert B. "". Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers, 1998.
* Peterson, Monique. "Disney's The Little Big Book of Pooh". New York: Disney Editions, 2002.
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