Film · 1977 · Animasyon, TV film

Simple Gifts

Yönetmen

R.O. Blechman, Phillip Schopper

Süre

60 dk

Oyuncular

Colleen Dewhurst, Hermione Gingold, José Ferrer, Dean Wareham, David Jones, Paul Dooley, Claudette Sutherland

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.