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The Royal Ballet Company brings Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Thumb, Hunca Munca, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Jeremy Fisher, Pigling Bland, and Pigwig to the screen doing pirouettes and pas de deux in this filmed ballet production directed by Reginald Mills. The film more properly belongs, however, to choreographer Frederick Ashmore, composer John Lanchbery, and costume designer Rostislav Douboujinsky. This literal adaptation concerns the shy Beatrix Potter and how, when all of the toy animals in her room come to life, she emerges from her shell and begins to enjoy life. Sequences include a rowdy dance with Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca destroying a collection of plaster food, a midnight pas de deux between Pigling Bland and Pigwig, and a corps de ballet of dancing mice.
Cast: Frederick Ashton, Alexander Grant, Julie Wood, Keith Martin, Ann Howard, Bob Mead, Garry Grant, Sally Ashby
Writers: Richard Goodwin (Writer), Beatrix Potter (Novel), Christine Edzard (Writer)
Cinematographer: Austin Dempster
Production Designer: John Howell, Christine Edzard
Editor: John Rushton
Sound Designer: Leslie Hodgson, Len Abbott
Composer: John Lanchbery
Costume Designer: Christine Edzard
Direction team: Maggie Unsworth (Continuity), Jack Causey (Assistant Director)
Producers: John Brabourne, Richard Goodwin
Production: GW Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, EMI Films
