The End of Winnie The Pooh - Eddache

Edited by:

Voice Overs:
Thomas Ridgewell as Christopher Milne - @TomSkaAndFriends
and Winnie The Pooh extracts read by Fred Bowley, my dad!

Special Thanks to "Ramblings on my bookshelves" for access to the illustrations for young Alan and Kenneth Milne.

Music:
A Quiet Thought - Wayne Jones
People Watching - Sir Cubworth
The End - Coyote Hearing
Ask Rufus - Audionautix
Love Letters - Aaron Kenny
Saving the World - Aaron Kenny
A Fool's Theme - Brian Bolger
The Star Spangled Banner - Band Only - The U.S. Army Band

Chapters:
0:00 - INTRO
0:21 - ORIGINS
4:17 - CHRISTOPHER MILNE
9:05 - CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
13:15 - THE GOPHER
18:16 - LAWSUITS
21:28 - BLOOD & HONEY
23:53 - A CONTRADITION

[adamwebster]

The “I don’t like endings so I’ll start at the beginning” made me actually laugh out loud

[simplybecca]

I really didn't expect to cry over a Winnie the Pooh documentary but here we are
Thank you for making this

[nefwaenre]

i always found it very endearing that a father wrote children's poems, illustrations and invented the whole Winnie the Pooh just to immortalise his son. His did this just for his son, but just like we can never have any good things, so we get all kinds of people who are hell bent in bullying the poor boy. And it's so.. heartwarming to know that CR, after all these years, harboured no hatred, just embarrassments. And that goodbye to CR part absolutely broke me...

[davidfitzpatrick]

Honestly I don't think its actually a bad thing that Christopher Milne gave away his toys as now everyone can go and meet the actual Winnie the Pooh and friends.

[theotherjared]

The immortal nature of Winnie the pooh is thematically appropriate. As we grow up, the childhood we had doesn't just disappear. It continues without us and takes on a life of its own. If something from long ago suddenly pops into our head years later, we often find it widly different and more expansive than when we left it, just like this franchise.

[SquidgySapphic]

"…but I like this ending."
Eddie you legitimately have me in happy tears, you're a great writer and creator, thank you for doing what you do and I hope you can keep doing what you love for as long as you want to. 💖

[jonathanstempleton]

I spent all my childhood holidays in Devon where Christopher R Milne had his bookshop. My mum would take me in and point him out and say "That's Christopher Robin" and I never believed her because to me Christopher Robin was a boy in a book who had adventures in the Hundred Acre Woods. And Mr Milne would give me a smile and a wink as if he knew something I didn't.

[jorgerosado]

I really love the idea of a story that exists as both a nostalgic lookback and also an appreciation for the future and what it holds. Personally, this is why I love films like Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and 12 Angry Men. Even though they're set in a specific time, it feels timeless.


Also damn the Gopher/Piglet conspiracy goes hard.

[Doggie]

The end of Winnie the Pooh for me was the 2018 Christopher Robin film. He grew up, yet Winnie the Pooh came back, to always be with him. I don't think there could possibly a better ending than that.

Edit: Or possibly Pooh's Grand Adventure. Although it's much older, it did end things off on a very positive, hopeful note.

[Brawler]

I've always felt like turning Winnie the Pooh into a horror story is such a boring and cynical idea. It's just too easy. A shame that nobody else seems to have any other ideas for it that don't involve making it "adult."

[jaketaller]

Fun fact: Since 1984, these has been an Annual World Pooh Sticks Championship held in the UK.

[LinkDawnbringer]

I'll be honest, I always felt the sad goodbye in Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, the finality of it all. It made me realize the loss of my childhood. I was a kid to be fair, but I still felt that melancholy.

[wratched]

A Winnie the Pooh horror movie could be really good if whoever writes it understands Winnie the Pooh. Its idiosyncratic writing style and wordplay and its references to childhood fears lend themselves to a dark fairy tale asthetic.

[leoultimaupgraded]

I’m surprised the history behind Winnie the Pooh was so tragic, but I’m glad Christopher Wilne got to reconcile with Christopher Robin and Pooh before he passed away.

I still love Winnie the Pooh regardless, even more now after watching this video and learning the true ending of the original book, because I’m now an adult, and although its hard to say goodbye to my childhood, I’ll always remember it fondly

Also, I wish I could’ve met Alan Milne, he sounded like a lovely human being, and I salute him for making such a lovely series and bittersweet but necessary ending to it.

also sorry for adding more, but seeing the ending again made me genuinely cry. Winnie the Pooh is a genuine work of art and I respect Alan all the more after learning about its beginning and ending.

[raymondtherat]

The first Eddache video to make me cry. I knew so little about the history behind Pooh, and this was an incredibly emotional and well researched video that really shone a light into both the inspiration behind and the adaptations of the story. What an absolutely amazing video-your channel is criminally underrated and you deserve so many more subscribers!!! Bravo!!!

[ZiddersRooFurry]

Pooh isn't completely public domain nor is Disney's version. "To give some background, Milne’s 1926 book is in the public domain, but changes to Winnie-the-Pooh, the character, from the original 1926 book are still under copyright protection. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh did not wear a red shirt; another author gave Pooh his shirt and Disney acquired rights to that depiction in 1961 and continues to own the rights to showing the character in a little red shirt today. Also, Milne spelled Winnie-the-Pooh with hyphens; Disney removed them."

From "How ‘Public’ is the Public Domain? Winnie-the-Pooh Illustrates Copyright Limitations of Public Domain Works" by Christine Xiao.

Disney's Pooh doesn't go public domain until sometime in the 2050's.

[GabrielKnightz]

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
A.A. Milne, The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh

[dannypalin]

I'm probably being melodramatic, but that final image of Christopher Robin and Pooh holding hands and skipping into the sunset has always made me feel wistful and sad, even at an early age.

[_The_Archive_]

Fun Fact: In the Disney movies, Tigger's trademark "Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!" laugh by was ad-libbed by Paul Winchell as well as his famous "TTFN: Ta-Ta For Now!" line, at the suggestion of his wife.

[pastamanfilms]

For the Pooh horror movie they could have just made him a crazy guy in a mask, like leather face but with an obsession with Winnie the Pooh.