Mole's Christmas
Encyclopedia
Mole's Christmas is a 30 minute animated
film
shot in 1994. Its main stars are Richard Briers
(Rat), Peter Davison
(Mole) and Ellie Beaven
(Young Girl) with Imelda Staunton
. Directed by Martin Gates, it is based on a Kenneth Grahame
's novel and is part of the Wind in the Willows series.
The film is very light hearted and very much aimed at the younger audience. The plot involves a tired Mole
and his friend Rat
trudging through the snow one Christmas Eve when suddenly Mole wishes he could be home. Once at his home Mole and Rat decorate it for Christmas and prepare a Christmas feast which they share with a group of mice carol
ers.
The 30-minute programme is the most exported UK-made TV show for the period between 1993–2003 and has been seen in 213 countries.
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
shot in 1994. Its main stars are Richard Briers
Richard Briers
Richard David Briers, CBE is an English actor whose career has encompassed theatre, television, film and radio.He first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines in the 1960s, but it was in the following decade when he played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life that he became a...
(Rat), Peter Davison
Peter Davison
Peter Davison is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984.-Early life:Davison was born Peter Moffett in Streatham,...
(Mole) and Ellie Beaven
Ellie Beaven
Ellie Beaven is an English actress. She was educated at St. Mary's R.C. Primary School in Isleworth then at Gumley House Convent School, Isleworth.-Film & television:...
(Young Girl) with Imelda Staunton
Imelda Staunton
Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, OBE is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her performances in the British comedy television series Up the Garden Path, the Harry Potter film series and Vera Drake...
. Directed by Martin Gates, it is based on a Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows , one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films....
's novel and is part of the Wind in the Willows series.
The film is very light hearted and very much aimed at the younger audience. The plot involves a tired Mole
Mole (animal)
Moles are small cylindrical mammals adapted to a subterranean lifestyle. They have velvety fur; tiny or invisible ears and eyes; and short, powerful limbs with large paws oriented for digging. The term is especially and most properly used for the true moles, those of the Talpidae family in the...
and his friend Rat
Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus...
trudging through the snow one Christmas Eve when suddenly Mole wishes he could be home. Once at his home Mole and Rat decorate it for Christmas and prepare a Christmas feast which they share with a group of mice carol
Christmas carol
A Christmas carol is a carol whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas or the winter season in general and which are traditionally sung in the period before Christmas.-History:...
ers.
The 30-minute programme is the most exported UK-made TV show for the period between 1993–2003 and has been seen in 213 countries.