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Wells' grieving son, I believe his name was Kevin, came to our set and wanted to appear in a scene. "Incidentally, shortly before we filmed this scene, the president of the Disney company, Frank Wells, was killed in a helicopter accident in Nevada. To emphasize the sense of chaos we used all sorts of fire effects and had people, horses and even elephants running through portions of the set."

This is a pivotal scene in the film when young Mowgli is carried off in a horse drawn wagon that catches fire and explodes in the distance leaving everyone to believe him dead. In reality the soldier was played by one of the tiger's handlers. The jungle camp set was built on Fripp Island and we shot a night scene there where a tiger attacks a soldier and runs amok through the camp. Then the production moved over to Fripp Island and we shot scenes that called for lakes and deep jungle stuff. We shot in Tennessee for all the mountains, cliffs and waterfalls at 'Fall Creek Falls, State Park' and 'Lost Creek Falls and Cave'. "I worked on the 1994 Disney production of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and we did use animals on both the Fripp Island location as well as the Tennessee location. Murray III shares his fascinating account of working on the film: $70,000 of the production cost was used to pay for water just to keep the crew hydrated.Scenes with animals were shot in on Fripp Island, in Tennessee and one scene was partially done in India. Part of the land on Fripp Island used in the film was later developed into the Ocean Creek golf course by PGA golfer Davis Love III.