The BBC said Monday that it had unearthed a 10-second clip of the real
Christopher Robin Milne trailing a group of children dressed as Winnie
the Pooh, Piglet, Eyeore, Tigger and Kanga for a school pageant in
Ashdown Forest in 1929.
Christopher Robin was nine at the time, but was
to write about the event in his autobiography later in life: “It was
exciting doing my bit.”
The clip is included in a documentary, The
Real World of Winnie the Pooh, set to air on the BBC tonight.
Frank Gray, director of the South East Film and Video Archive
where the clip was found, told the BBC, “This is the only film we have
of Ashdown Forest from that period, so for this one film to be the film
that also showed Christopher Robin was virtually impossible. It’s a
wonderful piece of film because it links the world of Winnie the Pooh to
Ashdown Forest and Christopher Robin.”
