Nursery Rhymes (1982)
70 favourite traditional songs and rhymes presented as a pop-up book which comes to life through animation, puppetry & live performances. The beautiful visual world draws on the work of such classic children's illustrators as Arthur Rackham (Peter Pan) & John Tenniel (Alice in Wonderland). A delightful musical score by Tony & Grammy winning composer John Du Prez, features everything form Northumbrian pipes to Baroque orchestra, folk guitar, early instruments, military band, fairground organ & even a singing sheep (courtesy of Percy Edwards).
- Date of release
- 1982-03-31
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Family, Music
- Director
- Mike Milburn-Foster
Casting
- Isla St Clair — narrator
- Floella Benjamin — narrator
- Martin Carthy — narrator
- Shirley Collins — narrator
- Valentine Dyall — narrator
- John Du Prez — narrator
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