Continuity mistake: During the "Bare Necessities" scene, Baloo picks a pawpaw fruit and you can see next to him there is a bunch of bananas. But after he has swallowed the fruit, the bananas have disappeared.
The Jungle Book (1967)
21 continuity mistakes - chronological order
Directed by: Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring: Sebastian Cabot, Phil Harris, Bruce Reitherman, Louis Prima
Deliberate mistake: After Baloo and Bagheera escape from the monkeys, they both have a black eye. However, during their conversation by the water, between shots their black eyes vanish. [This is a Disney tradition, but still a mistake.]
Baloo: You better believe it.
Trivia: The vultures at the end of the movie are meant to represent the Beatles, and are the same voices used for Yellow Submarine.
Question: Since Bagheera knows where the village is, why not just take infant Mowgli there and save everyone a lot of trouble?
Answer: He does say in the beginning of the movie that a village wasn't close by he knew where it was but it would have taken him several days to get the baby there. Plus the baby was going to need nourishment, or he would have died.
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Answer: The animals considered man a strange creature and did not understand their ways, like wearing clothes and shoes. They were scared when Mowgli brought them fire. They only knew jungle ways, they figured the humans would eat him, like any small creature left on his own. Plus they knew man as a hunter and killer.