Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day Premieres

Today marks the anniversary of “Windsday.” That’s the day when Winnie the Pooh and the gang encountered a very blustery day in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. The featurette made its debut in theaters with The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit on this day in 1968, and this second Pooh featurette introduced audiences to some new characters, including Tigger and the Heffalumps and Woozles, who according to the Sherman Brothers song, are very confused. The following year, fans shouted “Hip hip Pooh-ray!” when Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day won the Academy Award® for Best Cartoon Short Subject. Although Winnie the Pooh and his friends debuted on television in marionette-form in 1960’s The Shirley Temple Show, in 1969 NBC bought the rights to air Disney’s versions of the charmingly befuddled bear, and Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day would soon bring a little bit of the Hundred Acre Wood to the small screen.