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Eddy
and the Bear
(2001)
producers:
Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment Ltd
animation:
2D animation
run time: 30 mins
"Moving
house had upset Eddy,
He liked the house, but he'd lost his
Teddy..."
When
Eddy and his Mum move house, poor Eddy loses his favourite teddy
bear. What is he to do? The boy has given
up all hope of finding him when
he goes out to play in the nearby woods.
But there, in a clearing is his teddy
bear sitting safe and sound. Only it's
not Eddy's teddy Freddy, but a giant teddy
belonging to a big brown bear. So begins
a charming friendship between Eddy
and Bear, who find they share much in common
with each other - including
a fondness for teddy bears...
This Collingwood O'Hare production is a
gem. It's
adapted from three bestselling
picture books by author/artist Jez Alborough,
starring Eddy and Bear, and
you can hardly see the join. Eddy and Bear enter
in to a charming friendship.
Their adventures are told in rhyming
couplets read by Frances de la Tour
with some suitably gruff additions
from Robert Lindsay as Bear and a great
young voice from Rupert Garnsey as Eddy. Robert
and Rupert's "Silly Song"
is simply splendid too and Philip Appleby's
score adds extra sweetness to
the mixture. The film's charm must have hit home
with those hard-nosed
tv execs as well because a 26 x 10min series
was commissioned on the
back of it. This continues where the film
left of, developing and exploring the
relationship between Eddy and his big furry friend.
And what's more, this
splendid little show collected a Children's BAFTA for
Best Pre-School
Animation 2002...
» Eddy's
Father gets a voice credit, but he doesn't actually feature
in the film...
»
The series commission caused some unease with the producer and
director. Why? -
Well Rupert Garnsey's voice could have broken at
any moment. The team
were understandably anxious to get his voice
track recorded just as
soon as possible!
Eddy,
Teddy and Jez
Jez Alborough has written and illustrated
more than 30 picture books,
and Eddy and Bear starred in three best-selling
titles prior to the film:
1994 - Where's My Teddy?
1996 - It's The Bear!
1998 - My Friend Bear
In 2002 at least four Walker Books were
published to tie-in with
the series, these being:
Eddy and the Bear: The Latest Craze
Edyy and the Bear: The Best Things in Life
Eddy and the Bear: Brave Knights
Eddy and the Bear: Big and Small
» Jez
Alborough at Amazon.co.uk
The
Silly Song
"I'm
so silly, and I don't care
I'm a great big wibbbly woobly bear,
There's never been a bear as silly as me-e-e...
There never ever was and there never will
be!'
I'm so silly and I dont care,
Together we're a very silly pair,
There's never been a boy as silly as me-e-e...
There never ever was and there never will
be!'
Collingwood
O'Hare Entertainment Ltd
adapted from the best-selling
books by Jez Alborough
director: Tony
Collngwood
producer:
Christopher O'Hare
adapted by: Tony
Collingwood
music: Philip
Appleby
"The
Silly Song" lyrics by Tony Collingwood
voices:
Robert Lindsay (Bear)
Frances
de la Tour (The Narrator)
Rupert
Garnsey (Eddy)
Mum
(Jane Whittenshaw)
Dad
(Chris Lang)
On
the web
Collingwood
O'Hare
The official studio site
with more on Eddy - the film and the series - as well
as all of the other series
and films in the Collingwood CV like "Rarg", "Oscar's
Orchestra" and "The
King's Beard"...