Saturday, 21 March 2020

Tolkien Theme - Rankin/Bass Hobbit Movie

The Rankin/Bass Hobbit movie is a Animated TV movie from the 1970s based on the Tolkien book. It is often grouped with the Bakshi Lord of the Rings and Rankin/Bass Return of the King movie as a trilogy, however it has nothing to connect it to the Bakshi movie apart from being animated and being made in the 1970s.

As it was only a TV movie there were not a lot of collectables produced, however this Theme post details what I have found.

This blog is all about the Rankin/Bass production company and includes quite a bit of detail about the Hobbit movie https://taint-the-meat.com/2013/10/29/the-hobbit/

Here is an article about the artists who created the animation https://tolkiencourse.blogspot.com/p/the-artists-of-rankin-bass-hobbit.html

The following are websites which feature the Hobbit movie:

Original Storyboards
This is real one-off mega collectable as I believe that these are all complete in one collection.
Example pages
         

Video
VHS

Laserdisc (CED)

Xerox Sound and Filmstrip Kit
        

        

DVD
Also published as "Bilbo Baggins"

Animation Triple Pack
DVD

Rankin Bass Boxed Set
Hobbit and Return of the King
VHS

Records
LP
Soundtrack (Abridged)

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
alternative cover
Vista record #5007
    

Soundtrack (Complete)

    

Single
Read along book

Jigsaw Puzzles
American Publishing Corp

Board Game
    

    

Calendars
1979
    

Posters
Pre-release Promo Poster
    

Promo posters
1977
Bilbo and Gandalf, Bilbo and the Great Birds, Glow of Smaug, Bilbo, Bilbo and the Great Goblin, Journey through the Misty Mountains
    

The Hobbit
8” x 24”
    

Soundtrack poster (comes with the LP)

Books
Deluxe Edition
    

Deluxe Edition
With acetate cover
1977
    

Standard Edition
1989
    

Sheet Music
    

Promo Badge
    

Magazines
Children’s Digest Feb 1974
    

TV Preview Nov 1977
    

TV News
    

TV Day
    

TV Weekly
    

TV World - Tulsa 1977
    

    

TV Channels
Washington Post Supplement
1977 Nov 27 - Dec 3
    

    

TV Guide
    

         

1 comment:

  1. I'm really loving the theme/design of your web site. Do you ever run into any web browser compatibility problems? A number of my blog visitors have complained about my website not working correctly in Explorer but looks great in Chrome. Do you have any ideas to help fix this issue?
    food deals melbourne

    ReplyDelete