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John Coates : the man who built The Snowman : a biography of the producer of The snowman, Yellow submarine and many other films--

written by Marie Beardmore ; with an epilogue by John Coates ; foreword by Raymond Briggs.
Format
Video; DVD
Release Date
2011
Notes
Includes index.
Accompanying DVD contains excerpts from John Coates' films: The flying man, The apple, Granpa, When the wind blows, The tale of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny, Famous Fred, The wind in the willows, The tailor of Gloucester, The bear, The snowman.
Contents
  • Early years
  • Army years
  • Early days at Rank, Far East, Asia
  • Madrid : "We read Hemingway and lived Hemingway"
  • How it all began : rediffusion and ATV
  • From film to television and the start of TVC
  • TVC and the Beatles
  • The Beatles' Yellow Submarine
  • Endings and beginnings
  • Post George : a new era
  • The snowman : the first snow
  • Post Snowman
  • When the wind blows
  • Life matters, becoming a grandpa and holidaying in Kenya
  • Granpa
  • The Seychelles
  • Father Christmas : 1991
  • Recession
  • Beatrix Potter : 1992-1995
  • The bump in the road
  • 1995 : three more half hour specials
  • The wind in the willows (1995), and The willows in winter (1996)
  • Famous Fred
  • The Bear
  • Bali : another exotic holiday
  • John winds up TVC's animation studio
  • Oi get off our train and Varga TVC : 1998
  • John's brothers
  • Retirement! at the Lac de Sainte Croix
  • Ethel and Ernest
  • Epilogue / John Coates
ISBN(s)
9780861966820 (pbk.), 0861966821 (pbk.),
Published
New Barnet, Herts., U.K. :John Libbey Pub. ;Bloomington, IN :Distributed in N. America by Indiana University Press,c2011.
Description
xii, 188 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)
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