The Snowman

The Snowman
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This charming British animated short film (it's just 23 minutes long) is a 1982 production of London's Channel 4, based on the classic children's book by Raymond Briggs and crafted with a colored-pencils-on-paper look, like fluffy, hand-drawn illustrations. Small children should be entranced by the story of a small boy in rural England whose lovingly constructed snowman comes to life and takes him flying over the white-blanketed landscapes, in a beautiful rotoscoped (traced) sequence based on live-action flying footage. Part of the charm of the film is the gentle, everyday quality of its fantasy adventures: the snowman is invited in to try on clothes and play with the Christmas decorations, then plays host to the boy at a party in the woods, at which his snowy relatives do English country dances. This is one of the very few Christmas tapes on the market that really deserves to be a holiday perennial, a gentle fable of friendship and the power of imagination. --David Chute

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Actor(s):
Peter Auty
David Bowie
Mel Smith
Raymond Briggs

Creators:
Raymond Briggs (Writer)
John Cary (Editor)
Iain Harvey (Producer)
John Coates (Producer)

Director(s):

EAN: 5050582289237
Binding: DVD
Format: PAL,
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
Region code: 2
Running time: 26 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)

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