Burbank Films Australia
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Formerly called
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Burbank Animation Studios (1991–2002) |
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| Industry | Animation Studios |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Burbank Films Australia was an Australian animation production company that in a span of eight years produced over thirty different animated films. These films were presented to the public through television or direct-to-video debuts.
The company's first animated productions in 1982 were a series of adaptations of books from Charles Dickens; these first few films characterized themselves by their grim appeal. The sketch-styled backgrounds and the simplicity of the original score, such as in Oliver Twist (1982), added to the dramatic tone of those first stories. The eight total Dickens adaptations were produced during two years. At the same time, in 1983, the company produced a short series of adaptations of Sherlock Holmes stories, adapted from the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the years that followed, until 1988, Burbank adapted the works of many other well-known authors and legends, including Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers among many others.
In 1991, the company was resurrected under the name of Burbank Animation Studios, from then until the present time, the new studio has continued the production of the "Animated Classics" in association with Anchor Bay entertainment and Bridgestar entertainment.David Field as managing director and executive producer and Roddy Lee as producer. Initially, animation production was within Australia from FRANK ENSTEIN through some of HANS AND THE SILVER SKATES, combining traditional and digital techniques. After HANS, final animation and production involved traditional facilities outside of Australia.
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