| Granpa | |
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 Screen shot of the title card | |
| Directed by | Dianne Jackson |
| Written by | John Burningham (book) |
| Produced by | John Coates |
| Starring | Peter Ustinov (as Granpa) Emily Osborne (as Emily) |
| Music by | Howard Blake Sarah Brightman Wroughton Middle School Choir |
| Distributed by | Channel 4 (broadcast) Universal Studios (VHS) |
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Running time | 26 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Granpa is a British family-oriented animated film that adapts a picture book by John Burningham. Produced by TVS for Channel 4 Television in 1989, it was released on VHS by PolyGram Video in 1994.[1]
An expensive film to produce, Granpa is hand-illustrated with coloured pencil, imitating Burningham's style in the book. It was directed by Dianne Jackson, who had previously adapted The Snowman by Raymond Briggs (1978), a wordless picture book, as an exceptionally successful family-oriented animated film (1982). Howard Blake, who wrote the music for The Snowman, wrote the music and the script for Granpa, which is referred to as an "animated children's opera".[2] The voices of Granpa and Emily are by Peter Ustinov and Emily Osborne.
Granpa won the Prix Jeunesse International award for excellence in children's television programming in 1990.[3]