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Charlotte's Web
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"Charlotte's Web" is a 1973 American animated film that tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a spider named Charlotte. The film has become a beloved classic of children's animation, celebrated for its emotional storytelling and enduring appeal to young audiences.
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6.8Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Cast
- Debbie Reynolds as Charlotte (voice)
- Henry Gibson as Wilbur (voice)
- Danny Bonaduce as Avery Arable (voice)
- Agnes Moorehead as Goose (voice)
- Bob Holt as Homer Zuckerman (voice)
- Paul Lynde as Templeton (voice)
Themes
- friendship
- musical
- anthropomorphism
- spider web
- talking pig
- cartoon spider
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- animated film
- Genre
- musical film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure
- Based on
- Charlotte's Web
- Director
- Iwao Takamoto
- Screenwriter
- Earl Hamner, Jr.
- Voice actor
- Dave Madden
- Composer
- Robert B. Sherman
- Producer
- William Hanna
- Production company
- Hanna-Barbera
- Cinematographer
- Dennis Weaver
- Duration
- 94
- FilmAffinity ID
- 266476
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- distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- publication date
- 1973-02-22
- title
- Charlotte's Web
- after a work by
- E. B. White
- form of creative work
- feature film
- fabrication method
- traditional animation
- review score
- 73/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Charlotte's Web is a 1973 American animated musical drama film based on the 1952 book of the same name by E. B. White. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Like the book, it centers on a pig named Wilbur who befriends an intelligent spider named Charlotte who saves him from being slaughtered.
Directed by Charles A. Nichols and Iwao Takamoto from a story by Earl Hamner Jr., it stars the voices of Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, and Henry Gibson, alongside narration by Rex Allen. It features a score of music and lyrics written by the Sherman Brothers, who had previously written music for family films like Mary Poppins in 1964, The Jungle Book in 1967, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1968.
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