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It shows some modifications in relation to Beatrix Potter's original story, most notably the Rabbit family surname is changed to "Cottontail" and Peter having two brothers and a sister rather than three sisters. In 1971, Peter Rabbit appeared as a character in the ballet film The Tales of Beatrix Potter.
Peter Cottontail is a name temporarily assumed by a fictional rabbit named Peter Rabbit in the works of Thornton Burgess, an author from Sandwich, Massachusetts [1] In 1910, when Burgess began his Old Mother West Wind series, the cast of animals included Peter Rabbit.
Here Comes Peter Cottontail is a 1971 Japanese-American Easter stop-motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, currently distributed by Universal Television and based on the 1957 novel, The Easter Bunny That Overslept, by Priscilla and Otto Friedrich. [1]
The rabbits in Potter's stories are anthropomorphic and wear human clothes: Peter wears a blue jacket with brass buttons and shoes. Peter, his widowed mother, Mrs. Rabbit, as well as his younger sisters, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail (with Peter the eldest of the four little rabbits) live in a rabbit hole that has a human kitchen, human furniture, as well as a shop where Mrs. Rabbit sells ...
1955 Stories Around the Year; 1956 50 Favorite Burgess Stories; 1956 Little Peter Cottontail; 1957 How Peter Cottontail Got His Name; 1958 Read Aloud Peter Rabbit Stories; 1959 Bedtime Stories; 1959 Nature Stories to Read Aloud; 1960 Now I Remember: Autobiography of an Amateur Naturalist; 1963 The Million Little Sunbeams; 1965 Mother West Wind ...
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends, a TV series based on nine of her twenty-four stories, starred actress Niamh Cusack as Beatrix Potter. [ 111 ] In 1993, Weston Woods Studios made an almost hour non-story film called "Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller, and Countrywoman" with narration by Lynn Redgrave .
This was the third and final Rankin/Bass special about Easter. The first two were Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971), narrated by Danny Kaye, and The First Easter Rabbit (1976), narrated by Burl Ives. The original airing of The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town on ABC in 1977 ranked No. 13 in the Nielsen TV ratings for that week. [5]
Here Comes Peter Cottontail" is a popular secular Easter song composed in 1949 by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins. They also wrote " Frosty the Snowman " in 1950. [ 1 ] Mervin Shiner was the first person to record the song, on Decca Records in 1950.