Simple Gifts

Simple Gifts (1977)


  • Genre: Animation, TV Movie
  • Release Date: 1977-12-03
  • Runtime: 1h 0min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Thirteen
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Directors: Phillip Schopper, R.O. Blechman.

Summary

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.

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  • Colleen Dewhurst

    as Self - Host
  • Hermione Gingold

    as Narrator (segment "The Great Frost") (voice)
  • José Ferrer

    as Narrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas") (voice)
  • Dean Wareham

    as Narrator (segment "My Christmas") (voice)
  • David Jones

    as Narrator (segment "December 25, 1914") (voice)
  • Paul Dooley

    as (segment "Lost & Found") (voice)
  • Claudette Sutherland

    as (segment "Lost & Found") (voice)
Writing Virginia Woolf Novel
Writing Theodore Roosevelt Original Concept
Directing Phillip Schopper Director
Writing Fontaine Fox Original Story
Directing Michael Sporn Assistant Director
Writing Maurice Sendak Writer
Directing R.O. Blechman Director
Editing Joe Canestro Editor
Writing R.O. Blechman Writer
Writing Edward Hulse Original Concept
Directing Steven Parton Assistant Director
Writing Moss Hart Novel
Production R.O. Blechman Producer
Sound Arnold Black Music

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