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FRIDAY NIGHT/NITE MOVIE - WHEN THE WIND BLOWS - FEATURING DAVID BOWIE, ROGER WATERS AND OTHERS ON SOUNDTRACK
I bought a copy of this on VHS video, way back in a different time.
It's still one of my favorite movies.
Where I was back then, the cold war was experiencing Spring.
But still there was talk, and everywhere chatter of nuclear annihilation, would sporadically explode amongst youth in conversation.
Fear nothing. All is well.
It's only a movie.
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When the Wind Blows is a 1986 British animated disaster film directed by Jimmy Murakami based on Raymond Briggs' graphic novel of the same name. The film stars the voices of John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft as the two main characters.
The film was Briggs' second collaboration with TVC, after their efforts with a special based on another work of his, The Snowman, in 1982. It was distributed by Recorded Releasing in the UK, and by Kings Road Entertainment in the United States. A subsequent graphic novel by Briggs, Ethel and Ernest (1998), makes it clear that Briggs based the protagonist couple in When the Wind Blows on his own parents.
When the Wind Blows is a hybrid of drawn animation and stop-motion animation. The characters of Jim and Hilda Bloggs are drawn, but their home and most of the objects in it are real objects that seldom move but are animated with stop motion when they do.
The soundtrack album features music by David Bowie (who performed the title song), Roger Waters, Genesis, Squeeze, Hugh Cornwell and Paul Hardcastle.
