The Daydreamer (film)
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Cover of the 2003 DVD release.
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| Directed by |
Jules Bass Kizo Nagashima |
| Produced by |
Joseph E. Levine Arthur Rankin, Jr. Larry Roemer |
| Screenplay by |
Romeo Muller Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Based on |
Hans Christian Andersen (stories) |
| Starring |
Tallulah Bankhead Victor Borge Patty Duke Jack Gilford Margaret Hamilton Sessue Hayakawa Burl Ives Boris Karloff Hayley Mills Paul O'Keefe Cyril Ritchard Terry-Thomas Ed Wynn Ray Bolger Robert Harter |
| Music by | Maury Laws |
| Cinematography |
Daniel Cavelli (live action sequences) Tadahito Mochinaga (Animagic sequences) |
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| Distributed by | Embassy Pictures |
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101 minutes |
| Country | United States (live action sequences) Japan (Animagic sequences) |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million |
The Daydreamer is a 1966 Videocraft International production stop-motion puppet animation and live-action musical fantasy film. Directed by Jules Bass, it was written by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Romeo Muller, based on the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. It features songs by Jules Bass and Maury Laws. The film's opening features the cast in puppet and live form plus caricatures of the cast by Al Hirschfeld.
A teenaged Hans Christian Andersen daydreams instead of studying for school. He runs away from home. Whenever he falls asleep, he dreams that he is in strange adventures with tailors, a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb, a mermaid, a devil boy in Eden, and others. In reality, as well as in his dreams, Hans is searching for the Garden of Paradise, which in reality, does not find. The dream sequences are puppet animation, complete with a puppet version of himself. These dreams become the basis for his fairy tale fictions, which he writes as an adult: The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, Big Claus and Little Claus, and The Garden of Paradise.
A soundtrack album was issued by Columbia Records featuring all of the songs and the partial score from the film. In 2006, the album was reissued on CD by Percepto Records in a limited edition release that included four bonus tracks.
The Daydreamer has been released on DVD twice; in 2003 by Anchor Bay, and recently by Lionsgate in 2012 via Amazon.com as a MOD (Manufacture On Demand) disc.
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