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"Animal Farm"
1945 novel | synopsis & history |
“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.”
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
— from "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.”
Synopsis
"Animal Farm: A Fairy Story"
by George Orwell [1903-50]
published by Secker & Warburg in August 1945
"Animal Farm" entry at Wikipedia
"Animal Farm: What Orwell Really Meant" [Dec 1946 letter] by George Orwell
reprinted as an essay in The New York Review of Books for July 2013
 | "Snowball’s Chance: A Novel" [2002] by John Reed, Foreword by Alexander Cockburn, Afterword by James Sherry Very UN-authorized sequel to Orwell's 1945 classic; exiled pig Snowball returns to The Farm and implements a 'new world order' of untrammeled capitalism Kindle Edition from Melville House [8/2012] for $8.25 Melville House/Neversink Library 8x5 pb [8/2012] for $10.20 Roof Books 8x5¼ hardcover [11/2002] for $19.95 |
author George Orwell [1903-50]
Eric Arthur Blair was born in British India in 1903; he adopted the pen name 'George Orwell' in 1933, and is most famous for the novels
"Animal Farm" [1945] and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" [1949]; Blair/Orwell died of tuberculosis in London, England in January 1950.
Spirit of America Bookstore's
George Orwell Page
George Orwell Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
Movies & TV, Stageplays, Other Media
"Animal Farm" animated feature [U.K. 1954]
 | 80-minute British animated feature (Britain's first feature-length cartoon) co-written & co-directed by Joy Batchelor & John Halas; animal voices by Maurice Denham, narrated by Gordon Heath
DigiCom TV color DVD [8/2011] for $12.99 AspireForward all-region color DVD [8/2011] for $40.68 via Amazon third party Home Vision color DVD [11/2004] out of prodn/many used East West Ent. color DVD [undated] out of prodn/used Home Vision color VHS [11/2004] out of prodn/used United American Video color VHS [8/97] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • 1954 film entry at Wikipedia watch full movie [12/2018 upload; 2:00:05] online at YouTube |
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"Animal Farm" musical stageplay [London 1984]
Staged at the National Theatre London on 25 April 1984, directed by Peter Hall; toured nine cities in 1985.
"Animal Farm" animated TV movie [Hallmark/T.N.T. Oct 1999]
 | 91-minute animated TV movie directed by John Stephenson; voices of Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julia Ormond, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Scofield, Patrick Stewart, Peter Ustinov
Hallmark color DVD [1/2000] for $$17.98 Hallmark color VHS [9/2000] for $9.98 full credits from IMDb • 1999 film entry at Wikipedia |
"Animal Farm" stageplay [USA 2009]
 | "[A] shining example of what happens when someone (1) knows the material upside-down, inside-out, backwards and forwards, (2) has a genuine artistic vision, and (3) can make his concept come alive onstage in a way that will not merely thrill audiences, but make them want to run out and read the original text." — George Heymont, 'My Cultural Landscape' weblog Adapted by Jon Tracy; staged by Shotgun Players in Berkeley, California (Aug-Sept 2009) and at Laney College/Fusion Theater in Oakland, California (March 2013) watch "The Making of The Farm" clip [0:42] online at Vimeo |
"Animal Farm" animated feature [Imaginarium - in development?] 
Announced 10/2012: Multitalented Andy Serkis plans to direct a retelling of George Orwell’s allegorical novel "Animal Farm"
at his London-based performance-capture studio for release in 2013; bumped to 2015; as-of 4/2017, project seems to be on hold
(no longer listed on Serkin's IMDb credits) •
latest info at IMDb
L i n k s
"Animal Farm" entry at Wikipedia
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