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The marzipan pig [videorecording (DVD)] ; &, Jazztime tale.

First Run Features, [2008].

Marzipan -- Juvenile films.

Pigs -- Juvenile films.

Jazz -- Juvenile films.

Friendship -- Juvenile films.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile films.

Films of Michael Sporn.

Alternate title:

Jazztime tale [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)] ;

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.

The marzipan pig based on the award-winning book by Russell Hoban.

The marzipan pig originally produced in 1990; A jazztime tale originally produced in 1992.

Special features: Short film: Inside the animation studio ; art gallery ; animatics (storyboard).

The marzipan pig / animation, Tissa David ; music, Caleb Sampson ; editor, Ed Askinazi -- Jazztime tale / editor, Ed Askinazi ; music, David Evans ; art direction and backgrounds, Bridget Thorne ; story and screenplay, Maxine Fisher.

Produced by Michael Sporn Animation, Inc. for Italtoons Corp. ; produced and directed by Michael Sporn.

The marzipan pig: narrator, Tim Curry.

A jazztime tale: narrator, Ruby Dee.

"Based on the award-winning book by Russell Hoban, a marzipan pig falls behind a sofa and is lost. In his loneliness, the pig's feelings of love reach out to an owl, a mouse, and a hibiscus flower, causing a strange chain of events. Jazztime tale: set in 1919 Harlem,

two girls - one white, one black - form a lifelong friendship through a chance encounter, and the music of a young 'Fats' Waller."--Container.

Silver Apple, National Educational Film and Video Festival.

Blue Ribbon, American Film and Video Festival.

DVDs for children.

Hoban, Russell. Marzipan pig.

Sporn, Michael.

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