The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb

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The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb
DVD cover
Directed byDave Borthwick
Written byDave Borthwick
Produced byRichard Hutchinson
Starring
  • Nick Upton
  • Deborah Collard
Cinematography
  • Dave Borthwick
  • Frank Passingham
Edited byDave Borthwick
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byManga Entertainment
Release date
  • 10 December 1993 (1993-12-10)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb is a 1993 surrealist horror mystery stop-motion animated film directed, written, shot and edited by Dave Borthwick, produced by Bolexbrothers studio and funded by Richard Hutchinson, BBC, La Sept and Manga Entertainment, which also distributed the film on video.[1] Though it draws its title character from the fairy tale Tom Thumb, the story and setting is substantially different, depicting Tom as a fetus-like child living in a grim and squalid urban environment.

Plot

The story follows the tiny Tom Thumb as he is abducted from his loving parents and taken to an experimental laboratory, and his subsequent escape. He discovers a community of similarly-sized people living in a swamp, who help him on his journey to return to his parents. The film is largely dialogue-free, limited mostly to grunts and other non-verbal vocalizations.

Production

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb was made using a combination of stop-motion animation and pixilation (live actors posed and shot frame-by-frame), often with live actors and puppets sharing the frame. It was originally commissioned as a 10-minute short for BBC2's Christmas programming, but was rejected for being too dark for the festive season. The short version nevertheless garnered critical acclaim through showings at animation festivals, and a feature-length version was commissioned by the BBC a year later.

Awards

References

Notes

  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 203. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ^ 4. Kecskeméti Animációs Filmfesztivál 1. Nemzetközi Animációs Játékfilm Fesztivál. Kecskeméti Animáció Film Fesztivál. 1996.

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