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Simple Gifts (1977)
Directed by R.O. Blechman, Phillip Schopper
Animation, TV Movie · 1h 00m
A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas -- An excerpt from the early part of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" set in a time of extreme cold in Tudor England -- A short based on the Toonerville Trolley -- A bittersweet excerpt from Moss Hart's autobiography "Act One" narrated by Jose Ferrer -- A reading from the Christmas day entry from the diary of 11-year-old Teddy Roosevelt -- A reading of a letter by Captain Edward James Hulse describing the surprising Christmas Truce of 1914 -- An animated version by R.O. Blechman of his own book "Tutto Esaurito" (No Vacancy) about the travels of Mary and Joseph.
Cast
Colleen Dewhurst
Self - Host
Hermione Gingold
Narrator (segment "The Great Frost") (voice)
José Ferrer
Narrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas") (voice)
Paul Dooley
(segment "Lost & Found") (voice)
Crew
- Director
- R.O. Blechman, Phillip Schopper
- Writer
- Maurice Sendak, R.O. Blechman
- Novel
- Virginia Woolf, Moss Hart
- Editor
- Joe Canestro
- Producer
- R.O. Blechman
Details
- Release date
- 1977-12-03
- Runtime
- 1h 00m
- Genres
- Animation, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- THIRTEEN, Educational Broadcasting Corporation