The Little Engine That Could

Name: The Little Engine That Could
Genre: Animation, Short, Family
Released: 1963-11-01
Duration: 10 min
Cast: Dinah Shore

1963
10m

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Animation Family Short

The first animated adaptation made by industrial film juggernaut Coronet Films of the title character (who thought she can and eventually could) helping out a broken-down engine pulling a tr... Read allThe first animated adaptation made by industrial film juggernaut Coronet Films of the title character (who thought she can and eventually could) helping out a broken-down engine pulling a trainload of toys asking for help after the big and old engines rejected the offer.The first animated adaptation made by industrial film juggernaut Coronet Films of the title character (who thought she can and eventually could) helping out a broken-down engine pulling a trainload of toys asking for help after the big and old engines rejected the offer.

Star
- Dinah Shore

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YOUR RATING

Star
- Dinah Shore

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5/10

Coronet Thought They Could Make Cartoons

Dinah Shore reads the text from Olive Beaupre Miller's children's book for Coronet Film's first animated movie.

Well, it's partially animated. Animation has long been the most expensive sort of film making, since each frame has to be individually drawn. There are shortcuts, and so forth, but it requires a lot of artists many hours for hand-drawn animation. That includes limited animation, as here, when the figures only partially moving against a background.

Which is why they hired Dinah Shore to narrate. No matter how much a star like Miss Shore charged, it was only a tiny fraction of the cost of hiring literally dozens of artists to draw figures, in-betweens, and background art.