Burbank Films Australia

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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.

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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 Films Australia adapted the works of many other well known authors and legends, including Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote de la Mancha, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers among many others.

Today, Burbank Films Australia's films have fallen to the public domain, and many different distribution companies have taken advantage and released the films (often carelessly) onto the DVD format. The American company, DVD Ltd. was one of the first companies to do so. Years later, Digiview Entertainment, Goodtimes Entertainment, two American companies, and the Spanish Suevia Films are among the many different companies that have released Burbank Films Australia's animated productions. In 1991, the company was resurrected under the name of Burbank Animation Studios, from them until the present time, the new studio has continued the production of "animated classics".

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