Watership Down (Original title)

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Dates: 1978 (Copyright), 19 October 1978 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Martin Rosen

Synopsis: A tale of a breakaway group of rabbits and their struggle, in the face of many enemies, to form a Utopian society.

Genre: Animation

Subject: Animals (subject of artistic representation)

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Releases
Date: 1978Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 92 mins Length: 8290 FeetDialogue (original): English

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[Director]: John Hubley, ©/Production Company: Watership Productions Ltd, Presents: Nepenthe Productions Ltd, Produced by: Martin Rosen, Production Manager: Dennis Gardiner, Production Co-ordinator: Philip Alton, Production Accountant: Ron Garrett, Production Accountant: Jo Gregory, Production Accountant: Linda Gregory, Production Secretary: Judy Hayward, Marilyn Barham, Written for the screen by: Martin Rosen, From the novel by: Richard Adams, Camera: Tony Haines, Camera: Bob Mintern, Camera: Les Green, Camera: Ron Boston, Camera: Moses Agyemang, Camera: Julian Holdaway, Camera: Denis Hall, Camera: Barry Orsborn, Camera: Alan Buchan, Camera: Chris Williams, Camera: David Smith, Christopher Morgan, Animation Supervisor: Philip Duncan, Animation Director: Tony Guy, Senior Animator: Arthur Humberstone, Senior Animator: George Jackson, Senior Animator: Tony Guy, Philip Duncan, Animator: Edric Radage, Animator: Bill Littlejohn, Animator: Ruth Kissane, Animator: John Perkins, Animator: Ralph Ayres, Animator: Brian Foster, Animator: Chris Evans, Animator: Marie Szmichowska, Animator: Alan Simpson, Animator: Colin White, Animator: Doug Jensen, Animator: Bill Geach, Animator: Spud Houston, Animator: Barrie Nelson, Assistant Animator: Ray Kelly, Assistant Animator: Alistair Byrt, Assistant Animator: Malcolm Bourne, Assistant Animator: April Spencer, Assistant Animator: Sarah Vincent, Assistant Animator: Bobby Clennell, Assistant Animator: Chris Caunter, Assistant Animator: Steve Woods, Assistant Animator: Carol Slade, Rosemary Welch, Checking: Miles Foster, Checking: Steve Colwell, Marie Turner, Layout Artist: Gordon Harrison, Layout Artist: Peter See, Ted Pettengell, Senior Background Artist: Ian Henderson, Senior Background Artist: Gary Sycamore, Sue Branch, Background Artist: Errol Bryant, Background Artist: Paul Shardlow, Background Artist: Rodolfo Azaro, Background Artist: Brian Melling, Background Artist: Dennis Ryan, Assistant Background Artist: Vanessa Clegg, Richard Bell, Trace and Paint Supervisor: Donna Baker, Peter Turner, Colour Co-ordination: Alma Sachs, Trace and Paint: Sandy Houston, Trace and Paint: Karen Webb, Trace and Paint: Jose Sanz, Trace and Paint: Lynn Anderson, Trace and Paint: Elaine Mills, Trace and Paint: Maggie Brown, Trace and Paint: Olive Scott, Trace and Paint: Barbara Todeschini, Trace and Paint: Alan Andrews, Trace and Paint: Ann Kennedy, Trace and Paint: Margot Allen, Trace and Paint: Dennis Sutton, Trace and Paint: Briony Catling, Trace and Paint: Roby Hamilton-Garrett, Trace and Paint: Helga Egilson, Trace and Paint: Wendi Ellis, Trace and Paint: Roger Way, Trace and Paint: Josephine Poole, Trace and Paint: David Mcfall, Trace and Paint: Joan Bradshaw, Trace and Paint: Dot Morse, Trace and Paint: Sheila Thompson, Trace and Paint: Priscilla Rhodes, Trace and Paint: Maria Hemmleb, Rosemary Morgan, Edited by: Terry Rawlings, Assembly Editor: Roy Piper, Assistant Editor: Leslie Healey, Assistant Editor: William Webb, Optical Editor: Philip Campbell, Special Sequence Design: Luciana Arrighi, Titles: Brian Terry, Music Composed and Arranged by: Angela Morley, Incidental Music by: Malcolm Williamson, Musical Director: Marcus Dods, Music Editor: Brian Lintern, Music Mixer: John Richards, Dubbing Mixer: Bill Rowe, Re-recorded at: EMI Studios Borehamwood, Effects Mixer: Ray Merrin

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John Hurt (voice of Hazel), Richard Briers (voice of Fiver), Michael Graham Cox (voice of Bigwig), John Bennett (voice of captain Holly), Ralph Richardson (voice of chief rabbit), Simon Cadell (voice of Blackberry), Terence Rigby (voice of Silver), Roy Kinnear (voice of Pipkin), Richard O'Callaghan (voice of Dandelion), Denholm Elliott (voice of Cowslip), Lyn Farleigh (voice of Cat), Mary Maddox (voice of Clover), Zero Mostel (voice of Kehaar), Harry Andrews (voice of general Woundwort), Hannah Gordon (voice of Hyzenthlay), Nigel Hawthorne (voice of captain Campion), Clifton Jones (voice of Blackavar), Derek Griffiths (voice of Vervain), Michael Hordern (voice of Frith), Joss Ackland (voice of Black Rabbit), Michelle Price (voice of Lucy)

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