Animal Farm

"He's got the world in an UPROAR!"

1954 1h 13m EN

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Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

“He's got the world in an UPROAR!”

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Cast

Gordon Heath
Narrator (voice)
Maurice Denham
All Animals (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Joy Batchelor
Writers: John Halas, Joy Batchelor, Philip Stapp
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 73-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.3M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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72 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Joy Batchelor, shot by Roy Turk. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Matyas Seiber. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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CAST

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Gordon Heath and Maurice Denham carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "He's got the world in an UPROAR!".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Joy Batchelor directs. Roy Turk behind the camera. Matyas Seiber scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Tight 73-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Shot for just $0.3M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
372 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
4International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.
5Directed by Joy Batchelor, shot by Roy Turk. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Matyas Seiber. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Gordon Heath and Maurice Denham carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "He's got the world in an UPROAR!".
9IMDB entry: tt0047834 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 15 themes, including "farm", "corruption", "based on novel or book", "revolution".
11Released under 15 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Roy Turk
Original score: Matyas Seiber
Runtime: 73 min · 1h 13m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $350,000
Original language: EN
Certification (US): G
IMDB: Animal Farm (1954)

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CinemaSerf2024-05-08
★ 7/10
George Orwell's politics were always front and centre of his work, but never more so, I reckon, than with this adaptation from Halas & Batchelor. It all starts in the farm where the farmer is a bit of a waste of space. Usually in the pub whilst the animals - pigs, horses, chickens, geese - are routinely neglected and left unfed. The "Old Major" calls a meeting to organise a plan of action, but he goes off to the big sty in the sky (not that Orwell would have believed in such a place) and that leaves "Snowball" in charge and they decide to quite entertainingly depose the useless farmer and do things by themselves. They even have their own form of constitution declaring equality, fraternity and - one may not eat the other, nor sleep in a bed! Their Elysian scenario prevails for a while but soon another insurrection looms in the form of "Napoleon" who sees their leader as weak and ineffectual. A coup ensues and gradually we see the emergence of a first amongst equals policy, then rules are arbitrarily altered, ostensibly for the good of the community then, yep - we are back with an overt dictatorship that spawns ideas of a little revolution now and again is a good thing. There are obvious parallels here with the decline of Imperial Russia (or even Bourbon France) being followed by a series of increasingly less benign dictators, and of the ultimate realisation that when you give people power, they will always want more. The animation uses the different animals to show strength - of body and/or will, well and the narration serves as a gentle tramline for what we can all see is the writing in the sand. Hierarchies clearly aren't just an human thing.

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