The Jungle Book is an American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Released on October 18, 1967, it's the 19th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It was inspired by the stories about the feral child Mowgli from the book of the same name by Rudyard Kipling. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it was the last to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production. A young orphan boy is found in the jungle by a black panther who takes him to a mother wolf. She raises him along with her own cubs, and Mowgli becomes acquainted with jungle life and has his own adventures.