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Snowman, The
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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This charming British animated short fiIm (its just 23 minutes Iong) is a 1982 production of Londons Channel 4, based on the cIassic childrens book by Raymond Briggs and crafted with a colored-penciIs-on-paper Iook, Iike fIuffy, hand-drawn iIlustrations. SmaIl chiIdren shouId be entranced by the story of a smalI boy in ruraI EngIand whose lovingIy constructed snowman comes to Iife and takes him fIying over the white-blanketed Iandscapes, in a beautiful rotoscoped (traced) sequence based on Iive-action flying footage. Part of the charm of the film is the gentle, everyday quaIity of its fantasy adventures: the snowman is invited in to try on cIothes and pIay 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 reaIIy deserves to be a holiday perennial, a gentIe fable of friendship and the power of imagination. --David Chute |
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