Animal Farm
Animal Farm is a 1954 adult animated drama film directed by documentarians John Halas and Joy Batchelor. It was produced by Halas and Batchelor and funded in part by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who also made changes to the original script. Based on the 1945 novel of the same name by George Orwell, Maurice Denham provides the voice for all the animals in the film.
Plot
Manor Farm is mismanaged by its drunken owner, Mr. Jones. Prize pig Old Major encourages the farm animals to oust Jones, and teaches them the revolutionary song "Beasts of England" before his death. Due to not being fed, Major's successor Snowball leads the animals into the storehouse for food; then leads them into chasing Jones away, renaming the farm "Animal Farm", and destroying the tools of oppression that had been used against them. They decide against living in the farmhouse, though Saddleback boar Napoleon is interested and begins to secretly raise an abandoned litter of puppies.
Cast
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author | Borden Mace John Halas Joy Batchelor Lothar Wolff Philip Stapp |
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director | John Halas Joy Batchelor |
events | Cold War politics |
genre | drama |
keywords | abandon animalism benjamin boxer british saddleback claim dinner party eulogy glue factory guard dog injured jones meet mr. jones napoleon old major revolution saddleback boar show trial snowball squealer windmill workhorse wound |
musicBy | Mátyás Seiber |
producer | John Halas Joy Batchelor |
productionCompany | Halas and Batchelor |
publisher | Associated British-Pathé |
theme | animated propaganda satirical war |