The Selfish Giant (1972 film)

*The Selfish Giant*
The Selfish Giant
Genre	Animation
Directed by	Peter Sander
Voices of	The King's Singers
Narrated by	Paul Hecht; Charles Aznavour (French version)
Theme music composer	Ron Goodwin
Composer	Ron Goodwin
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Gerald Potterton; Murray Shostak
Running time	26 minutes
Original release
Network	CTV (Canada)
Related
	The Happy Prince
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The Selfish Giant is an animated short film adaptation of the short story by Oscar Wilde. The story has symbolic religious themes and may be considered a work of allegory in Christian literature. The film was produced in 1971 by the Canadian-based Potterton Productions and by Pyramid Films. It earned a 44th Academy Award nomination in the Animated Short Subject category.^[1] One of the film's animators was Micheline Lanctôt.^[2] The King's Singers provided the vocals after having formed only a few years before.

The film first aired on Canadian television in November 1972 on CTV. It aired in the United States on CBS on March 28, 1973.^[3]

^ Short Film Winners: 1972 Oscars-YouTube
^ "The Film Reference Library". Archived from the original on 27 April 2006. Retrieved 13 December 2007.
^ Woolery, George W. (1989). Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987. Scarecrow Press. pp. 368–369. ISBN 0-8108-2198-2. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

[1] Short Film Winners: 1972 Oscars-YouTube

[2] "The Film Reference Library". Archived from the original on 27 April 2006. Retrieved 13 December 2007.

[Specials-3] Woolery, George W. (1989). Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987. Scarecrow Press. pp. 368–369. ISBN 0-8108-2198-2. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

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