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Raymond Briggs' The Snowman

Raymond Briggs' The Snowman

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A magical, moving Christmas favourite based on the much-loved children's book about a boy who builds a snowman that comes to life.

CertificateU

Duration26 mins

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  • Alex
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Review by Alex

5 stars

19 Jul 2015

The main highlight of Christmas is the presents, but nevertheless,

no Christmas can be complete without this animated short.

It is based around a young boy who builds a snowman,

but that snowman

comes alive and takes him on a journey.

But that's not the main highlight, is it?

No, the REAL highlight is the animation.

This goes back to Disney's early days:

Snow White, Fantasia, Dumbo, Pinocchio, you know what I mean.

Raymond Briggs must have took months sketching this all out.

He has to make twenty-four frames just for a single

second. Yes, one second is twenty-four frames,

so overall, there's about thirty-thousand frames in this movie,

if not more.

I know that it's six months till Christmas (I'm writing this part on

9th June and I don't know when I'm gonna upload this), but

The Snowman is an essential part of Christmas. And I

can't believe I'm saying this, but I'd take it over Home Alone

any day.

Shocking.

Positively shocking.

007 fans rejoice, cause that quote was from Goldfinger.

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