The Selfish Giant

Duration: 0:26:00

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Potterton Productions Inc | Pyramid Film & Video

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses animation to present the Oscar Wilde allegory about a giant who passes through the stage of selfishness into sharing and Christian love. Shows the giant's garden being beset by perpetual winter when he forbids children to play there. Records the restoration of springtime after the giant helps a mysterious child who has entered the garden., The story of a selfish giant who refuses to share the garden with the neighboring children. In shutting out the children, he finds he also has kept out sunshine and happiness. Based on Oscar Wilde's book by the same title. (animated)

Complete Record: , An animated story about a giant who shuts his garden to prevent children from playing in it and then realizes that in his selfishness he has also shut out happiness and sunshine. , An animated interpretation of the Oscar Wilde fairy tale. After many years of absence, a giant returns to his castle and finds children playing in his garden. He frightens them away and builds a wall to keep them out. For his act of selfishness, Spring deserts the garden and leaves it to the ravages of Snow, Hail, Frost and the fierce North Wind. One morning, the giant looks out and finds his garden in bloom; the children have found a gap in the wall and brought back Spring to the garden. , The story of a selfish giant who refuses to share the garden with the neighboring children. In shutting out the children, he finds he also has kept out sunshine and happiness. Based on Oscar Wilde's book by the same title. (animated)NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.