In 1977, Trudeau wrote a script for a 26-minute animated special.

* The voice of Platypus in the Australian animated film Dot and the Kangaroo ( 1977 )

The Hobbit, an animated version of the story produced by Rankin / Bass, debuted as a television movie in the United States in 1977.

John Huston voiced Gandalf in the animated films The Hobbit ( 1977 ) and The Return of the King ( 1980 ) produced by Rankin / Bass.

Smaug as he appears in the The Hobbit ( 1977 film ) | 1977 animated version of The Hobbit.

In the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit, Smaug was voiced by Richard Boone.

In the 1977 Rankin / Bass animated version of The Hobbit, Bilbo was voiced by Orson Bean.

Jordan also lent his voice to Disney's animated film The Rescuers ( 1977 ).

Art Clokey also made a few highly experimental and visually inventive short clay animation films for adults, including his first student film Gumbasia ( 1955 ), the visually rich Mandala ( 1977 ) — described by Clokey as a metaphor for evolving human consciousness — and the equally bizarre The Clay Peacock ( 1963 ), an elaboration on the animated NBC logo of the time.

Some of the most famous included Larry Storch, Dallas McKennon ( best known as the voice of Archie in the Archie cartoon and as Cincinnatus, in the Daniel Boone TV series ), Adam West and Burt Ward ( who recreated their roles as " Batman and Robin " from their 1960s live-action series for Filmation's 1977 animated incarnation ), Jane Webb, and good friends and colleagues Ed Asner and Linda Gary ( Gary voiced a majority of Filmation's work in the 1980s ), along with John Erwin ( voice of Reggie Mantle, and later the voice of He-Man ), Alan Oppenheimer ( character actor in TV and film ), Ted Knight, George DiCenzo ( John BlackStar, Hordak, Bow on She-ra ), Melendy Britt, Howard Morris, Pat Fraley, Charlie Adler, Ed Gilbert, Susan Blu, Erika Scheimer ( daughter of Lou Scheimer ), and even Lou Scheimer himself ( either uncredited, or under the pseudonym of " Erik ( sometimes " Eric ") Gunden ").

Of all the various adaptations, Chuck Jones's 1977 animated TV short Mowgli's Brothers, adapting the first story in The Jungle Book, may be the one that adheres most closely to the original plot and dialogue.

( Both Tyrone and Gladys became animated characters in the " Nitwits " segments of the 1977 animated television show, Baggy Pants and the Nitwits.

Pleasence was the author of the 1977 children's book Scouse the Mouse ( London: New English Library ), which was animated by Canadian animator / film director Gerald Potterton ( a friend of the actor, who directed him in the 1973 Canadian film The Rainbow Boys, retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States ) and also adapted into a children's recording ( Polydor Records, 1977 ) with Ringo Starr voicing the book's title character, Scouse the Mouse.

Pete's Dragon ( 1977 ) is a live-action / animated musical film from Walt Disney Productions, in which he played a travelling elixir showman / salesman named Doc Terminus.

In 1977 Al Guest and Jean Mathieson of Rainbow Animation were commissioned by Capitol Records to create the first animated rock video of the Klaatu song " A Routine Day ".

The Goblins in the 1977 animated adaptation of The Hobbit were likened to the work of Maurice Sendak.

* Fred Flintstone was the guest of honor at a celebrity roast for his birthday in the live-action and animated TV special Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue ( 1977 ) hosted by Roy Clark and Bonnie Franklin which featured the Ice Capades.

Ralph Bakshi used the technique quite extensively in his animated movies Wizards ( 1977 ), The Lord of the Rings ( 1978 ), American Pop ( 1981 ), and Fire and Ice ( 1983 ).

Pete's Dragon is a 1977 live-action / animated musical film from Walt Disney Productions and the first Disney film to be recorded in the Dolby Stereo sound system.

* Narrator of several Disney animated films, including those featuring Winnie the Pooh ( 1966 – 1977 )

In the 1977 animated adaption of The Hobbit, The Wood Elves are depicted as having fair hair and pale lavender skin, with clothing predominantly brown and olive coloured garb.

He played the main characters Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in the 1977 and 1980 Rankin / Bass animated adaptations of J. R. R.

" His first publicly released film was an experimental short called The Orchid Gardener ( 1977 ) and his first feature film came seven years later with The Element of Crime ( 1984 ).

The Duellists ( 1977 ) marked Ridley Scott's first feature as director.

Allen's stop motion work can also be seen in such feature films as The Crater Lake Monster ( 1977 ), Q-The Winged Serpent ( 1982 ), The Gate ( 1986 ) and Freaked ( 1993 ).

Donated in 1977 to USC's School of Cinema-Television by Warner Communications, the WBA houses departmental records that detail Warner Bros. activities from the studio's first major feature, My Four Years in Germany ( 1918 ), to its sale to Seven Arts in 1968.

" This feature ended when Gould retired from the strip in 1977, but Max Allan Collins reinstated it, and it is still part of the comic strip.

( 1975 ), Soap ( 1977 ), and The Lazarus Man ( 1996 ), as well as in several feature films including Turk 182 !, The Ice Pirates, and Magnum Force.

She eventually transitioned into writing children's books, most notably, Freaky Friday ( 1972 ), which was made into a feature film ( released 1977 ) for which Rodgers wrote the screenplay.

A cemetery was moved next to the house ( a change that also occurred in the two feature films and the 1977 reunion special ), and there were now various secret rooms and passages.

He made his first short film in 1968 and in the 1970s he began making a series of political feature films about modern Greece: Days of ' 36 ( Meres Tou 36, 1972 ), The Travelling Players ( O Thiassos, 1975 ) and The Hunters ( I Kynighoi, 1977 ).

* ABBA: The Movie, a feature length film about the pop group ABBA's 1977 Australian tour

It focuses on the fourth series and feature a rare 1977 interview with Roy Clarke.

( To clarify: 78, 78 +, and Mars LP: The Complete Studio Recordings, NYC 1977 – 1978 all feature essentially the same half-hour batch of music, but with very slight auditory differences.

On November 14, 1977 ( and continued on November 21, 1977 ), Author Bil Gilbert wrote a long feature story in Sports Illustrated on the impact of high school football on life in a small town.

Additionally, in keeping with Walt's original intentions, the three Pooh featurettes were compiled into the 1977 feature The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

The set also includes the 1977 featurette, various trailers, and the 1997 " Making Of " documentary – though this is now split over three discs rather than as a single feature as with the 2001 DVD release.

After his noted work in the mid-1960s he went on to direct the Academy Award-winning A Christmas Carol ( 1971 ), the full-length feature Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure ( 1977 ) and the Emmy-winning telefilm Ziggy's Gift ( 1982 ).

Divine was unable to appear in Waters ' next feature, Desperate Living ( 1977 ), despite the fact that the role of Mole McHenry had been written for him.

Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge.

Another bold move in the show's final months saw Number 96 feature what was publicised as Australian television's first full frontal nude scene when new character Miss Hemingway ( Deborah Gray ) made the first of several unveilings in April 1977.

Rambova was portrayed by Yvette Mimieux in Melville Shavelson's television movie The Legend of Valentino ( 1975 ) and by Michelle Phillips in Ken Russell's feature film Valentino ( 1977 ), and by Ksenia Jarova in upcoming American silent film Silent Life ( 2012 ).

In 1977, the obverse on all coins was redesigned to feature the Coat of arms of Seychelles and the date was moved to the obverse from the reverse.

The first, Jennings Goes to School ( ISBN 0-333-65523-0 ) appeared in 1950 and new titles were published regularly until the mid-1970s ( the last for fourteen years was Jennings at Large in 1977, the only book to feature Jennings during the school holidays ), with two more in the 1990s ( Jennings Again in 1991 and That's Jennings in 1994 ).

Before 1977, the presentation of the award wasn't televised as a stand-alone special, but rather as a quick in-game feature.

* After-touch: A feature brought in the late 1980s ( although synthesizers like the CS-80 extensively used by artists like Vangelis featured after-touch as early as 1977 ) whereby dynamics are added after the key is hit, allowing the sound to be modulated in some way ( such as fade away or return ), based upon the amount of pressure applied to the keyboard.