Last in this series of posts, some VHS and DVD covers of the animated special. These have not been consistent at all over the years. This VHS release was the first, released October 13th, 1993 in the U.S. No idea why it took that long. Copyrights maybe. Though not great design, the cardboard slipcover combines …
Here’s some extra screencaps from the special I couldn’t find a place for. The first three are from the Stone Table scene. Melendez’s Pevensie kids didn’t stand the test of time, in a design sense, for me; but the spooky creatures remain vividly creepy even today. It helps that these caps are colorful and clean.
This press release, included with all the others, is a short biography of C. S. Lewis and how he came to write The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. While the life of Lewis’s colleague J. R. R. Tolkien was widely known by then because of the The Lord of the Rings, Lewis’s was not. …
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.
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 …
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