Snowball (Animal Farm) him. Those accused of supporting him are executed after being forced to confess, and a reward is offered for his capture. Snowball is an inventive pig who influences others to his side with intelligence and compassion. It is never revealed what happens to him after his escape. In the 1954 animated adaptation it is implied that the dogs kill him. However, in the 1999 live action film adaption, he is shown escaping the dogs and surviving, though Napoleon declares him banished under pain of death. When the novel "Animal Farm" was adapted for screen in the 1950s, the CIA investors
Animal Farm (1954 film) and he hired Halas & Batchelor, an animation firm in London that had made propaganda films for the British government. Maurice Denham provided the voice for all the animals and as well as humans in the film. Manor Farm is a formerly prosperous farm that has fallen on hard times, and suffers under the now-ineffective leadership of its aggressive and drunken owner, Mr. Jones. One night, Old Major, the prize pig and the second-oldest animal on the farm, calls all of the animals on the farm together for a meeting, where he decries their abuse and unhappiness under Jones, encouraging