Animal Farm [Slim Case]

Starring: Gordon Heath and Maurice Denham

Product Description

Animal Farm, Britain's first animated feature, is based on George Orwell's classic novel, which has been on school reading list since its creation. It is set on a farm in England and depicts a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: January 2004
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Digiview Productions
• Directors: John Halas, Joy Batchelor
• Starring: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Full Screen; NTSC
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

No animal shall drink alcohol “to excess.”

A fairy tale or a nightmare? It all began with a dream by Major, a Middle White boar, of equality and freedom from oppression. Maybe not in our life, comrade, but eventually. The dream brings a song. Intolerable conditions lead to revolution. As time passes, things change; not exactly as planned. Two striking parts to this tale stand out. First when Boxer is sent to the hospital and Benjamin reads the side of the van "Horse Slaughterer." Secondly, there was a party in the farmhouse as the pigs were playing cards with the men, and two aces of spades showed up. At the end of the book, an argument ensues between the pigs and the men working together. Then the creatures outside looked in as they "...looked from pig to man and man to pig, and from pig to man again drew a realization..." In the movie, the pigs stand alone; then the world is “dissent-pig-planted” by the rest of the animals. Not an ending. It is suggested that the end of the movie was changed by the CIA who obtained the rights to “Animal Farm.” We notice pigs without people. Gordon Heath is the narrator in this 1954 presentation of Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” Maurice Denham was the voice of all the animals. Between the narration are long wordless views that stretch the film out to two or three times what it normally is with just the narration.