Environmentalist animation at its best. Frederic Back's pastel animation has a natural, evolving quality that compliments the subject matter of this story perfectly. This film reflects the animation style of the time, a soft, artistic approach that many would recognise from The Snowman, and is slowly making a return in children's literature. I hope that this will extend eventually back into animated film, as many animators who worked or grew up during this time have fond memories of this more expressionistic approach. Of course it is arguably more time consuming and less productive than digital animation, but the level of investment is obvious to the viewer and I think this makes it more attractive to the viewer.
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