Raymond Briggs' The Snowman
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

October 24th, 2006

Rating: 4.8 / 5.0 (299 votes)

Released: 2006-10-24

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Raymond Briggs' The Snowman by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Director Dianne Jackson	Studio Sony Pictures Home E	Runtime 26	Rated NR (Not Rated)	Binding DVD

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An Academy Award Nominee (Best Animated Short Film, 1982), this delightful animation weaves a spell of magical enchantment as a young boy's snowman comes to life and escorts him on a magical flying visit to the North Pole. Absolutely superlative family enjoyment.

Actors

Peter Auty
Raymond Briggs

Format

Animated
Closed-captioned
Color
Dubbed
Full Screen

Editorial Review

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