Animal Farm (1954)

Animal Farm is a - animated comedy-drama  produced by Halas and Batchelor, based on the novel of the same name by. It was the first theatrical British animated feature.

Release history
The film was released in the on VHS by BBC Video and Polygram Video in  and, respectively; Universal Pictures first released it on DVD, on. A restored version of the film, which costed $25,000 to produce, was released on theaters in, by Blue Dolphin Films (which later licensed it to PolyGram and Universal). A 60th Anniversary Edition print was released on Blu-ray, DVD and iTunes by Network Distributing, on.

The first was released on VHS in the by Vintage Video in. The film was first released on DVD in said country, by Home Vision Entertainment in, a year before Image Entertainment bought the company (thus obtaining the rights to its catalog). Digiview Productions conincidentally released it on DVD on ; since the film had received Super 8 releases in the 1970s, it was assumed that the film had fallen in the public domain. The estate of Halas & Batchelor, who kept the copyright to the movie, ended up filing a lawsuit against Digiview, and won, resulting in Digiview filing for bankruptcy; it was later revived as Digiview Entertainment.

The PolyGram, Home Vision and Network Distributing releases are accompanied by a Stay Tooned special, presented by Tony Robinson, charting the history of the film and Halas and Batchelor in general.

International versions

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