The Night the Animals Talked (1970)

Directed by

Shamus Culhane

Genre

Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

30 min

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This animated special shows farm animals who can speak at midnight on the night Jesus was born. It retells the nativity story from the animals' perspective.

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What happens

The Night the Animals Talked is an animated children's Christmas television special, first shown on ABC television on December 9, 1970. It was repeated four times on ABC, in 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1977. The American/Italian co-production was based on a legend that all of the animals could talk at midnight, on the night that Jesus was born. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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