Jungle Book

Mowgli

Buldeo

The Barber

The Pundit

Messua (as Rosemary De Camp)

Mahala

Durga

Rao

English Girl

Sikh

The Panther

The Bear (uncredited)

The Elephant (uncredited)

The Snake (uncredited)

The Tiger

The Jungle Book (1942) was the first film for which original soundtrack recordings were issued. Previously, when record companies released music from a film, they had insisted on re-recording the music in their own studios with their own equipment. The "Jungle Book" records were taken from the same recordings used for the film's soundtrack, and their commercial success paved the way for more original-soundtrack albums.

Merian C. Cooper did considerable preproduction work but it was abandoned when he decided to re-enlist in the armed forces in June 1941.

Kipling's two Jungle Book anthologies compromise fifteen stories, four of which were used is this film: "Mowgli's Brothers," "How Fear Came," "Tiger! Tiger!," and "The King's Ankus."

Two scenes with the black panther were obviously shot with the panther behind a glass screen, likely as a safeguard to protect the actors. In both scenes, showing close-ups of the panther, debris is seen adhering to the glass.

When Mowgli is escaping from the city after being whipped, the whip marks disappear from his back.

Despite a comment by a villager about "running naked" through the jungle, Mowgli can be seen wearing a pair of briefs when he first enters the village and is pursued by the villagers.