Details
Watership Down Limited Edition 4K UHD (UK Import)
BFI
Original title: Watership Down
Year: 1978
Country: UK
Region code: A/B/C
Content: 4K UHD
EAN: 5035673000045
Image: 1.85:1 (2160p)
HDR: HDR 10 / Dolby Vision
Audio:
Subtitles: English SDH
Rating: PG
Genre: Family
Cast: John Hurt , Richard Briers , Ralph Richardson
Director: Martin Rosen
Synopsis:
When a young rabbit named Fiver has a prophetic vision that the end of his warren is near, he persuades seven other rabbits to leave with him in search of a new home.
Additional features:
- Newly restored and presented in High Definition
- Newly recorded audio commentary by film and animation experts Catherine Lester and Sam Summers
- Defining a Style (2005): short featurette about the film’s aesthetic
- A Conversation with the Filmmakers (2005, 17 mins): Archive featurette in which director Martin Rosen and editor Terry Rawlings discuss the production history of the film
- Storyboard comparison (2005, 15 mins): a look at four sequences from the film
- Super 8 version of the film (20 mins)
- Humberstone Super 8 footage (3 mins): Footage shot by Arthur Humberstone, one of the senior animators on Watership Down
- Designing Watership Down (2024, 5 mins): a gallery containing some of the materials related to Watership Down courtesy of The Arthur Humberstone Animation Archive
- Trailers, teasers & TV spots
- Once We Were Four (1942, 9 mins): a bunny quartet face an onslaught of badgers, bombs and birds of prey in this black comedy masquerading as a nature film, directed by Mary Field
- Rabbits or Profits? (1969, 15 mins): public information film providing a potted history of rabbits in the UK
- Bolly in A Space Adventure (1968, 5 mins): a short Halas & Batchelor animation about the adventures of Bolly and his friends on imaginary planets, featuring animation by Tony Guy, animation director on Watership Down
- Make Believe (1948, 17 mins): Anson Dyer tells 'The Tale of Ronnie Rabbit' in this documentary showing the various stages of making a cartoon bunny
- Newly created optional English descriptive subtitles
- Newly created audio description track for the blind and visually impaired
- Double-sided poster featuring the original UK quad and the 2024 rerelease artwork
- A set of four postcards featuring iconic scenes from the film
- Perfect-bound book featuring writing by Jez Stewart, Catherine Lester, Nigel and Klive Humberstone, Angela Morley, Charlie Brigden, Lillian Crawford, Vic Pratt, Tony Dykes and Michael Brooke
