Walking in the Air Walking in the Air "Walking in the Air" is a song written by Howard Blake for the 1982 animated film of Raymond Briggs' 1978 children's book "The Snowman". The song forms the centrepiece of "The Snowman", which has become a seasonal favourite on British and Finnish television. The story relates the fleeting adventures of a young boy and a snowman who has come to life. In the second part of the story, the boy and the snowman fly to the North Pole. "Walking in the Air" is the theme for the journey. They attend a party of snowmen, at which
The Overcoat (animated film) Moscow labs that develop black-and-white film, Norstein's team is currently being forced to develop it themselves. The film is based on Nikolai Gogol's "The Overcoat". However, Norstein has said that "the cinematographer should not be interested in that which is described in detail - he should look to that which is skipped, to that which is implied but is not explicitly written. The break in the text is the most promising, the most alive place for cinema." Russian The Overcoat (animated film) The Overcoat (, "Shinyel") is an unfinished animated feature film that has been the main project of acclaimed