Animal farm /

Unhappy with the poor living conditions they must endure, the animals of Manor Farm gather for a secret meeting to plan a revolt. The animals fight and win their freedom, naming their newly claimed property Animal Farm. All seems perfect, until the desire for power and other traits they had despised...

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Main Author: Orwell, George
Corporate Authors: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress), Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
Format: Video
Language:Undetermined
Published: Great Britain : Heinemann ; c1954;
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Summary:Unhappy with the poor living conditions they must endure, the animals of Manor Farm gather for a secret meeting to plan a revolt. The animals fight and win their freedom, naming their newly claimed property Animal Farm. All seems perfect, until the desire for power and other traits they had despised in their original owner show through in the animals now running the farm. Life is not what they had hoped it would be.
Item Description:Copyright: RD--DR Corporation. Appl. au.: producer: RD--D R Corporation. NM: motion picture based on a screenplay & novel. DCR 1954; PUB 9Sep54; REG 13Jul79; PA54-727.
Copyright notice on videodisc label: DeRochemont Films, Inc. ; 1954.
Title appears on videodisc label as Animal farm; title also appears on videodisc jacket as George Orwell's Animal farm.
Possible videodisc reissue date from copyright notice on videodisc label for videodisc package design and summary; orignally released in U.S. in 1954 by Louis de Rochemont Associates.
LC copies are U.S. reissue copy (ref print, FCA 8818-8819 and master, VTA 0873) and 1986? videodisc reissue copy (viewing copy, DAA 0086).
Summary taken from videodisc jacket.
On videodisc jacket: Vestron Video VL4418.
Adapted from the book by George Orwell.
Sources used: videodisc jacket and label; copyright data base; shelflist card; Monthly film bulletin, v. 22, no. 252, p. 18; New York times, 12/30/54.
Physical Description:89p. : 20cm.
1 videoreel of 1 (ca. 75 min.) : sd., col. ; 1 in. master.
Production Credits:Presenter, Louis de Rochemont ; narrator, Gordon Heath ; music composed & conducted by Matyas Sieber ; animation, E. Radage, A. Humberstone, R. Ayres, H. Whittaker, F. Moysey.
ISBN:9780435121655
9789966258984