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- BFI identifier40504
- Date1953 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisANIMATION. Stereoscopic animation story of the Owl and the Pussycat based on the poem by Edward Lear, also released in a flat version. (Synopsis)
- Work historyCopyright renewal title and credits from 1980 bill Brian Brothwick as the Director.
- Genre
- CreditsDirector: Brian Borthwick
Production Company: Halas & Batchelor
Production Company: Stereo Techniques
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Title
The Owl and the Pussycat (Original)
Category
Fiction- Collections
- Film / Video
16mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
16mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
Digital Betacam - Video - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsDocument: production - Animated cartoon version of the children's nonsense poem by Edward Lear about the lovestruck owl and pussycat who went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat. First European 3-D [stereoscopic] cartoon, later released as a flat. Won first prize at Edinbrugh Film Festival. Directed by John Halas and Brian Borthwick; animation: Brian Borthwick; music: Matyas Seiber; vocal Soloist: Maurice Bevan. Papers include poem, French script, press-sheet, music cue sheet, credit list, festival award certificate, rights statement - HAB-1-30
Script - File containing typescript copies of the three verse poem 'The Owl and the Pussycat' by Edward Lear, no date, c.1953 - HAB-1-30-1
Script - File containing: - typescript version of the poem 'the Owl and the Pussycat' by Edward Lear, translated into French as 'Monsieur Hibou Et Dame Minette', no date c. 1953; - typescript 'Sub titles for French version', no date, c.1953 - HAB-1-30-2
Document: publicity - File containing four copies of the press-sheet giving brief detail of the film and synopisis, no date c.1953 [English, French and German language] - HAB-1-30-3
Document: post-production - Music cue sheet giving a brief description of the film and music used, 19 August 1954 - HAB-1-30-4
view all - StillsPhotograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1179159
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1179160
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-px7
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-px6
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-px5
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Work - 40504 - 1953 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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