About a month ago I was around at a friends house watching TV at four in the morning after a bit of drinking, and there was a show on about the history of british animation. It was a pretty cool show - lot's of the older "postman pat" style stop motion stuff covered, but the one thing that really stuck out was this - The Snowman, based on the book by Raymond Briggs.
It's only half an hour long and was made for tv in the early 80's, but as far as I recall it was never shown in New Zealand - if it was I certainly didn't see it. A few weeks ago I found it on DVD for £4. I've watched it right through about 4 times and have watched it a bunch more times where I just skip to the walking in the air bit, then skip to the end where he's melted. You can actually watch the whole thing on youtube, but it's a shame to do so as the real thing is so beautifully drawn and textured which doesn't come through at all on lossy old youtube.
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