Animal Farm (1954 film)

Animal Farm is a 1954 British animated drama film by Halas and Batchelor, based on the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. It was the first British animated feature to be released Handling Ships, a Royal Navy training film, was produced earlier, but due to its purpose did not receive a formal cinema release. The C.I.A. paid for the filming, part of the U.S. cultural offensive during the Cold War, and influenced how Orwells ideas were to be presented. The CIA initially funded Louis de Rochemont to begin work on a film version of Orwells work and he hired Halas amp Batchelor, an animation firm in London that had made propaganda films for the British government.

Manor Farm is a formerly prosperous farm that has fallen on hard times, and suffers under the nowineffective leadership of its drunken and aggressive owner, Mr. Jones. One night, Old Major, the prize boar and the secondoldest on the farm, calls the animals on the farm for a meeting, where he compares the humans to parasites and encourages the animals to break free from their tyrants influence, while reminding them that they must hold true to their convictions after they have gained freedom. With that, he teaches the animals a revolutionary song, before collapsing dead midsong to the animals horror.The next morning, Jones neglects to feed the animals for breakfast, and they decide to break into the storehouse to help themselves. When Jones wakes up and attempts to intimidate them with his whip, the animals revolt and drive the drunken and irresponsible Mr. Jones from the farm, renaming it Animal Farm. They set to work destroying every trace of Jones influence, mainly the weapons used against them. An investigation of the farmhouse leads them to concede against living there, though one of the head pigs, an antagonistic boar named Napoleon, takes interest in the abandoned house, and even more so in a litter of puppies left motherless. ........

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