The Little Engine That Could (1991 film)

The Little Engine that Could is a 1991 animated directtovideo short film directed by Dave Edwards and coproduced by Edwards and Mike Young, animated at Kalato Animation in Wales and cofinanced by Universal Studios through their MCAUniversal Home Video arm and S4C, Wales dedicated Welshlanguage channel. It was released on VHS by MCA. The film features the voice talents of Kath Soucie and Frank Welker. It is based on the book of the same name, by Watty Piper.

Eric, a young boy, is excited about his birthday after reading a book and believes that a train will come for him, despite his teenage sister Jills disbelief. A few hours later, the train stations control tower wakes up and in the roundhouse, Tillie, a young little blue switcher engine, along with her best bird friend, Chip, wakes up four other trains Georgia, a kind allpurpose engine, Farnsworth, a stuckup, shiny, new passenger engine, Jebediah, a wornout, rusty, old engine, and Pete, a gruff, burly, big, strong freight engine. After the tower assigns Farnsworth and Pete their jobs, he declines Tillies offer to help with the milk train assigned to Jebediah due to her small stature. Georgia is assigned to pull the birthday train. A clown named Rollo leads the toys into the train, including Jeepers, a monkey, Stretch, a basketball player, Missy, a ballerina, Handy Pandy, a panda, Perky, an elephant, and Grumpella, a stuffed bird.During her journey, Georgia breaks down and is taken back to the roundhouse by Doc. Left behind, Rollo eventually takes Docs advice of flagging down one of the other engines returning from their daily runs over the mountain. Farnsworth and Pete turn blind eyes to the offer, and Jebediah explains that going over the mountain is too much for him. Meanwhile, despite the tower turning down Tillies offer to help carry the birthday train, she and Chip sneak past the tower and pulls the birthday train up a mountain. Despite being ridiculed by the animals along the way, Tillie manages to reach the summit after crossing a bridge that collapses, but loses the last train car, which snaps off and falls into the river, along the way. ........

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