This press released for the animated The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe details the involvement of the Episcopal Church in the project. I know I lot of Narnia fans may be yawning at that, but it’s interesting to read because without that involvement, there wouldn’t have been a special in the first place. They …
Here’s two more press releases from the animated special. Both say what’s been said before, with a different slant, bringing in some quotes from C. S. Lewis himself. Other than that I don’t have a lot to say about them.
The press sheets below detail the making of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe animated special from conception to finish. As with the other press material, the special letterhead stationary created for the project was used, but the rest was typewritten. The “Lord of the Rings” Melendez refers to here was undoubtedly the Ralph …
More educator’s notes / press releases. The first is a character and plot sheet. Not bad in how everything was reduced to its basics. I wonder if AI could write the same thing today? Let’s find out.
More material relating to the 1979 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe animated TV special. These releases were made available to teachers and educators who would be using the special as class material. These two press releases detail the involvement of the Children’s Television Workshop, a nonprofit educational television production and media company which …
Here’s some teachers’ notes which were sent to schools in advance of the 1979 CBS broadcast of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe cartoon. I had a moment of nostalgia reading these discussion points. First, they seem very literary and in-depth compared to the notes which would be written for students today. I can’t …
There’s been only one animated version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and it was made by Bill Melendez of all people — who owned the same animation studio that made most of the Charlie Brown specials broadcast on American TV during the 1970s. If you were a child then, you probably have …
A comic book panel from the early 1970s that combines quickly fading hippie fashion with Space Age aesthetics. Even for its time, that text is pretty cringeworthy!
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