Walt Disney had wanted to make a film based on A.A. Milne’s Winnie-The-Pooh for a very long time. His daughter, Diane, had been a big fan of the books growing up and Walt started making inquiries in 1938, when Diane would have been about five years old. By the time he got the rights in 1961, his daughter was 27 and married to future Disney CEO Ron Miller with kids of their own. Walt’s original plan was to make a