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The first feature-length adaptation, 1984, was directed by Michael Anderson and was released in 1956. It starred Edmond O'Brien as protagonist Winston Smith with Donald Pleasence as Mr Parsons, Jan Sterling as Julia, and Michael Redgrave as O'Brien (renamed O'Connor).
series of live-action shorts starting with Everett True Breaks Into The Movies (1916) Based on Popeye: Popeye the Sailor (1933–1957, animated) two-reel Technicolor shorts: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936, included in the National Film Registry) Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937) Aladdin and His Wonderful ...
My Dog Tulip is a 2009 American animated drama film based on the 1956 memoir of the same name by J. R. Ackerley, BBC editor, novelist and memoirist.The film tells the story of Ackerley's fifteen-year relationship with his Alsatian dog (German Shepherd) Queenie, who had been renamed Tulip for the book.
Michael Redgrave narrated the story and veteran Looney Tunes animator Chuck Jones served as executive producer. Williams' son Alexander Williams, then aged four, provided the voice for Tiny Tim. [7] Animation for the film was created by multiple pans and zooms and unexpected scene transitions.
A few attempts were made to produce independent feature-length animated films in the 1970s. Several of these were decidedly adult-oriented productions from outside the United States, including the Canadian Heavy Metal , the English Watership Down and a live-action/animated version of the Pink Floyd concept album The Wall , all of which received ...
[1] Jean Flynn, the animation director, noted how the special would be mostly "based on music," in contrast with other animated films at the time, which made the animation production, in order to comply with the composition's pacing, a difficult process. [1] In response to the animation being outsourced, Jones said: It's a story I always wanted ...
Dan Jones's first history book was a popular narrative history of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381, titled Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381, which was published in 2009. [ 5 ] His second book, The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England , was published in 2012 in the United Kingdom and a year later in the United States, where ...
It was the first feature-length animated film ever made for television. For its release on British television, many of the characters' voices were re-recorded by British actors and actresses (including Leo McKern, Arthur Lowe and Sheila Hancock), but Stephen Thorne was the voice of "Aslan" in both the U.S. and British versions.