Pretty much. The Disney characters are actually modeled after the simplified and colorized versions of the Shepard illustrations used by Stephen Slesinger on US licensed merchandise in the first half of the 20th century. Slesinger was the one who established that Pooh was yellow and always wore a red shirt (in the Shepard pics, he only bothered to wear a shirt on occasion, color unknown).
When I read the Milne stories to Jorie I do voices for the characters, and for Pooh I started out with a rough Sterling Holloway impression, but have been drifting toward a sort of perpetually befuddled, occasionally imperious delivery sort of like what my mother used to use. But lately I've been throwing in Yevgeny Leonov's machine-gun "taram-pam-pam, taram-pam-pam-pam-pam" now and then just to make Jorie laugh.
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Re: Vinni ze Pooh
Date: 2011-07-19 02:49 pm (UTC)When I read the Milne stories to Jorie I do voices for the characters, and for Pooh I started out with a rough Sterling Holloway impression, but have been drifting toward a sort of perpetually befuddled, occasionally imperious delivery sort of like what my mother used to use. But lately I've been throwing in Yevgeny Leonov's machine-gun "taram-pam-pam, taram-pam-pam-pam-pam" now and then just to make Jorie laugh.