| Gnomes | |
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| Directed by | Jack Zander |
| Produced by | Jack Zander Thomas W. Moore (exec.) Anne E. Upson (exec.) |
| Written by | Wil Huygen (book text) Rien Poortvliet (book ill.) Sam Moore (written by) Maurice Rapf (written by) |
| Narrated by | Lee Richardson |
| Music by | Neil Warner (music) Phyllis Levinson (lyrics) Larry Levinson (producer) |
| Release date(s) | November 11, 1980 |
| Running time | 45 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Gnomes is an American 1980 animated film, based on the book with the same title by the Dutch Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet.[1] The movie was nominated for an Emmy in 1981 for Outstanding Animated Program.
Several years after this film was released, the television series, The World of David the Gnome was created, which was also based on the same novel.
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This made for TV movie is all about a family of forest gnomes who live together in their home under a tree. The family consists of a father, mother, grandfather, older son Tor, and a set of young twins. The movie mainly concerns itself with Tor, his upcoming marriage to his fiancee Lisa, and his family's preparations for the wedding. The gnome family busies itself with decorating and preparing for the festivities, meanwhile a family of trolls plan on ruining the wedding for the gnomes. The troll family consists of a dumb troll father, a bossy mother troll who's fond of wearing a snake in her hair and smoking, her two bumbling older sons, and a young troll affectionately called "Runt".
Adding to the wedding mishaps is Tor's uncle Kostya who came all the way from Siberia to crash the wedding ceremony, he makes mischief by adding extra alcohol to Grandpa's special punch, and making some inappropriate advances to the mother of the bride.
The movie also contains a handful of vignettes which use still illustrations from the original book and narration to explain some of the facts about the different sorts of gnomes, and what sorts of duties gnomes perform to help the creatures they live amongst.
It was once common to see this film played on cable television movie channels, however it has since become very hard to find as it is not readily available for sale on DVD or VHS.
It was quite popular in Sweden where it has a fairly large fan base, but due to its unclear copyright status (after the production company shut down) further viewing was deemed impossible by Sveriges Television until the status was resolved. Member of Parliament of Sweden Karl Sigfrid aimed a written question to Minister for Justice Beatrice Ask how this and similar issues should be resolved.[2]
Despite no official news about the copyright status, a DVD release has now been announced for Sweden set for release on December 1. The distributor is the Norwegian company CCV.
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