Granpa (1989)

Directed by

Dianne Jackson

Genre

children's film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

35 min

Rated

U

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A little girl named Emily spends time with her grandfather. They share quiet moments and adventures together as she learns about his past.

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What happens

Granpa is a British family-oriented animated film which adapts a picture book by John Burningham. Produced by TVS for Channel 4 Television in 1989, it was released on VHS by PolyGram Video in 1994. After it was initially released by Stephen Woolley's Palace Video label earlier in the 90's. An expensive film to produce, Granpa is hand-illustrated with coloured pencil, imitating Burningham's style in the book. It was directed by Dianne Jackson, who previously adapted The Snowman by Raymond Briggs (1978), a wordless picture book as an exceptionally successful family-oriented animated film (1982). Howard Blake, who wrote the music for The Snowman, wrote the music and the script for Granpa, which is referred to as an "animated children's opera". The voices of Granpa and Emily are by Peter Ustinov and Emily Osborne. Granpa won the Prix Jeunesse Special Prize in children's television programming in 1990. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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