The Snowman [VHS]

The Snowman [VHS]
by Dianne Jackson

The Snowman [VHS]

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Actor: David Bowie, Peter Auty
Director: Dianne Jackson
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 30 minutes
Release Date: 1997-09-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures

VHS Movie Reviews of The Snowman [VHS]

Movie Review: beautiful
Summary: 5 Stars

We rented this video for our then 2.5 year old last year and decided to buy it this year as she has loved it since first seeing it. The story is sweet, the music is beautiful and the images are a storybook come alive. This is a classic that I never tire of, which is a good thing as it gets played many many times.

Movie Review: Great Movie but not for little kids
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is wonderful but it does have a sad ending. I couldn't help but laugh at the message left about the kids crying at the end of the movie. All snow melts....hint hint. Anyways, I love this movie and all the adults in my family love it too. This movie is certainly creative and I will certainly have my kids watch it.

Movie Review: A treasure
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is a treasure for all ages. The music and animation is beautiful.

Movie Review: So utterly breathtaking!
Summary: 5 Stars

This wonderfully faithful adaptation of The Snowman, a children's book written by Raymond Briggs, tells the story of a young boy whose snowman that he has created comes to life on the stroke of twelve, midnight. The two become friends, and the snowman explores the boy's house. Later on, the two go on a journey out in the open, from riding a motorcycle through the fields to flying north to meet Father Christmas (aka Kris Kringle). I've always loved reading the original children's book when I was little, and I was in even more awestruck at the animated adaptation. This is about 25 minutes long, and it's gorgeous from beginning to end. There is no dialogue whatsoever, but it shouldn't be a fault because it's the visuals that makes this film so mesmerizing. The animation is breathtaking as it looks exactly like the original illustrations. Oh, and we should never forget the music. The song "Walking in the Air" is probably made famous because it's used in the second half of this film. The lovely vocals blends in perfectly with the entire "flying" sequence.

How come we never see more films like this one anymore? It's a real shame. Fortunately, we still have The Snowman and many other classics that we can always enjoy watching. This is absolutely timeless and should never be ignored.

Grade: A

Movie Review: If you'll forgive the snow-related pun, this is DEEP
Summary: 5 Stars

Here's a challenge for you: Try to watch this animated short film just once. Just try to resist the temptation you'll feel to go back to the beginning and start this amazing film all over again.

You won't be able to do resist; that much I can promise you.

This is by far one of the most amazing short films I have ever seen. This is film about a mutual exploration; the child-protaganist builds The Snowman, and then through magic, this Snowman comes to life. The child invites the Snowman indoors, where the child shows the Snowman the inside of the house. The Snowman explores the child's world, showing the audience how things so familiar to us become things of oddity and wonder to the Snowman.

Then, in turn, the Snowman invites the child to explore the Snowman's world. It is at this point of the film that we are taken on a flying journey into the magical world of the snowman, a world that observes our own, but is still apart from our own.

Be prepared for the ending of this film: It is NOT what you would expect at all. It says something about what we lose when we cease to be children, and become adults.

It is impossible not to be deeply emotionally effected by this amazing short movie. I recommend it unreservedly.

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Summary of The Snowman [VHS]

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

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