The Halloween Tree (film)
Animated film exploring Halloween's origins through time travel.
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Produced by Hanna-Barbera, the 1993 animated television film "The Halloween Tree" is a fantasy-drama that adapts Ray Bradbury's 1972 novel bearing the same title.[1] A group of children out trick-or-treating discover the history of Halloween after a friend gets taken away by unexplained forces.[1]
Making and release
TBS and syndicated channels first aired the film on October 30, 1993.[1] Providing the narration is Bradbury, while Leonard Nimoy gives voice to the character Mr. Moundshroud, who guides the children.[1] Cartoon Network regularly broadcasts the movie during the Halloween period.[2]
What the cited sources add
Lenburg's "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons" (1999) states the film is a Hanna-Barbera production based on Bradbury's novel.[1][3] It also records that Fil-Cartoons handled the overseas animation and the film premiered on October 30, 1993.[1][3] The 2005 Gauntlet Press edition of "The Halloween Tree" mentions that the film adaptation altered the novel's eight-boy group to three boys and a girl.[2][4]
References
- Wikipedia, "The Halloween Tree (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lenburg, "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons", Checkmark Books, 1999, p. 270 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "The Halloween Tree (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bradbury, "The Halloween Tree", Gauntlet Press, 2005 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Open Library record, ISBN 0816038317 ("The encyclopedia of animated cartoons"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
- Open Library record, ISBN 1887368809 ("The Halloween Tree"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
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- Wikipedia: The Halloween Tree (film) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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