Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Higglety Pigglety Pop or There Must Be More to Life is a 2010 liveactionanimated short film about the fictional adventures of Maurice Sendaks pet dog Jennie, based on his 1967 childrens book of the same name. It is directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, collectively known as Clyde Henry Productions, and features the voices of Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker and Spike Jonze. Jonze also served as producer along with Vincent Landay and Marcy Page. Higglety Pigglety Pop or There Must Be More to Life was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with Warner Home Video.

An associate of Jonze had been impressed by Lavis and Szczerbowskis previous work, the animated short Madame TutliPutli and suggested to the director that they would be suitable to create a short companion piece for the Bluray release of Where the Wild Things Are. Jonze contacted the animators while he was in France promoting Synecdoche, New York and the two met after, with Jonze proposing that they create a film based on some other short story by Sendak. Unfamiliar with Sendaks work, the filmmakers researched his work and settled on Higglety Pigglety Pop as their choice to adapt.The film is set indifferent locations, with a total ofscenes. With justmonths to create the entire film, the filmmakers could not use stopmotion or any of their traditional animation techniques. They decided instead to primarily make use of puppetry, combined with some stopmotion. ........

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