Simple Gifts (1977)

Özet

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.

Oyuncular

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  Colleen Dewhurst

  Self - Host

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  Hermione Gingold

  Narrator (segment "The Great Frost") (voice)

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  José Ferrer

  Narrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas") (voice)

• Dean Wareham

  Narrator (segment "My Christmas") (voice)

• David Jones

  Narrator (segment "December 25, 1914") (voice)

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  Paul Dooley

  (segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

• Claudette Sutherland

  (segment "Lost & Found") (voice)

Ekip

Yönetmen

R.O. Blechman, Phillip Schopper

Senaryo

R.O. Blechman, Maurice Sendak

Hikâye / Eser

Fontaine Fox, Moss Hart, Virginia Woolf

Yapımcı

R.O. Blechman

Müzik

Arnold Black

Kurgu

Joe Canestro