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The Little Engine that Could is a 1991 animated adventure film directed by Dave Edwards[3] and co-produced by Edwards and Mike Young, animated at Kalato Animation in Wales and co-financed by Universal Studios through their MCA/Universal Home Video arm and S4C, Wales' dedicated Welsh-language channel. It was released on VHS by MCA. The film features the voice talents of Kath Soucie and Frank Welker.[4] It is based on the book of the same name, by Watty Piper (specifically based on the 1976 illustrations by Ruth Sanderson).[5] The film was also syndicated in the US on broadcast television as an Easter special in March/April 1993.[6]

The Little Engine That Could
VHS cover
Directed by	Dave Edwards
Screenplay by	Ray Rhamey
Based on	The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Produced by	Mike Young Dave Edwards
Starring	Kath Soucie Frank Welker B.J. Ward Neil Ross Bever-Leigh Banfield Peter Cullen Scott Menville Billy O'Sullivan Dina Sherman
Edited by	Terry Brown
Music by	Ben Heneghan Ian Lawson
Production company	S4C Kalato Animation Dave Edwards Studio
Distributed by	MCA/Universal Home Video[1]
Release date	November 22, 1991 (1991-11-22) (United States)
Running time	30 minutes[2]
Country	United States United Kingdom
Language	English

Plot

Eric, a young boy, is excited about his birthday after reading a book and believes that a train will come for him, much to his teenage sister Jill's disbelief. A few hours later, the train station's control tower wakes up and in the roundhouse, Tillie, a young little blue switcher engine, along with her best bird friend, Chip, wakes up four other trains: Georgia, a kind all-purpose engine, Farnsworth, a stuck-up, shiny, new passenger engine, Jebediah, a worn-out, rusty, old engine, and Pete, a gruff, burly, big, strong freight engine. After the tower assigns Farnsworth and Pete their jobs, he declines Tillie's offer to help with the milk train assigned to Jebediah due to her small stature. Georgia is assigned to pull the birthday train. A clown named Rollo leads the toys and friends into the train, including Jeepers, a monkey, Stretch, a basketball player, Missy, a ballerina, Handy Pandy, a panda, Perky, an elephant, and Grumpella, a stuffed bird.

However, during her journey, Georgia breaks down and Doc takes her back to the roundhouse. Left behind, Rollo eventually takes Doc's advice of flagging down one of the other engines returning from their daily runs over the mountain. Farnsworth and Pete turn blind eyes to the offer, and Jebediah explains that going over the mountain is too much for him. Meanwhile, despite the tower turning down Tillie's offer to help carry the birthday train, she and Chip sneak past the tower and pulls the birthday train up a mountain. Despite being ridiculed by the animals along the way, Tillie reaches the summit after crossing a bridge that collapses but loses the last train car, which snaps off and falls into the river along the way.

When Tillie sees the scary cave, she tries to go through the cave. However, the cave says that she is too little. Unfortunately, an avalanche knocks Tillie out cold. Eric is woken up by a thunderstorm and is worried about Tillie and the birthday train. After Tillie regains consciousness, she pulls the train out of the snow using her cowcatcher as a snowplow and down the mountain before they reach the town, much to Eric's delight and Jill's amazement. Although very tired from her long and adventurous journey over the mountain, Tillie is very proud and happy that she could and tells Chip it was worth it.

Voice cast

• Kath Soucie as Tillie, Missy and the Little Wolf
• Frank Welker as Farnsworth, Jebediah, Rollo, Jeepers, Perky, the Big Wolf and the Eagle
• B.J. Ward as Grumpella
• Neil Ross as Doc, Tower and Sandy Pandy
• Bever-Leigh Banfield as Georgia
• Peter Cullen as Pete and the Cave
• Scott Menville as Chip and Stretch
• Billy O'Sullivan as Eric
• Dina Sherman as Jill

Broadcasting history

Despite being released as a direct to video film, The Little Engine That Could had been broadcast on 56 independent television stations as an Easter special for two weeks two years later.[7]

The movie can currently be viewed on Amazon Prime.[8]

See also

• The Little Engine That Could – the 1930 book upon which it is based
• The Little Engine That Could – 2011 CGI film starring Alyson Stoner

References

External links

• The Little Engine That Could at IMDb
• The Little Engine That Could at The Big Cartoon DataBase
• The 1991 movie on Internet Archive

На других языках

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- [en] The Little Engine That Could (1991 film)

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[ru] Маленький отважный паровозик Тилли (мультфильм, 1991)

Мультфильм Маленький Отважный Паровозик Тилли создан и спродюсирован в 1991 году режиссёром Дэйвом Эдвардсом сопродюсером Майком Янгом, анимирован на студии Kalato Animation в Уэльсе при финансовой поддержке Universal Studios посредством MCA/Universal Home Video в содружестве с S4C, специально для валлийскоязычного телеканала. Фильм был выпущен в формате VHS компанией MCA. В озвучивании фильма участвовали такие талантливые актёры как Кэт Сьюси and Фрэнк Уэлкер. Фильм создан по одноименной книге Уотти Пайпера.

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