Jungle Book is an American color 1942 action/adventure film based on the Rudyard Kipling book, The Jungle Book. The film was directed by Zoltán Korda based on a screeplay adaptation by Laurence Stallings. The cinematography was by Lee Garmes and W. Howard Greene and music by Miklós Rózsa.
The film was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color for the directors brother, Vincent Korda and creative partner Julia Heron.
In 1943 the films score was re-recorded with narration by Sabu Dastagir and became the first commercial recording of a U.S. film score to be released.