It took until the nineties for the Disney princesses to start gaining some racial diversity. ![]() The story takes place in India, meaning that Mowgli's the first non-white character in this series, even though we're still in the sixties. The obvious trait to bring up, though, doesn't have to do with Mowgli's character but rather with his physical self. This film is a bit like 1951's Alice in Wonderland in the sense that Mowgli, like Alice, is essentially just wandering around a land and meeting different types of characters-but Mowgli does have more characterization than Alice does, so we have at least enough of a sense of who he is for this post. ![]() Click to read my introduction to this series, Part 1, and Part 2.įrom 1963's The Sword in the Stone, we are moving on just a couple of years or so to 1967's The Jungle Book.
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