Footage Found From The 1967 Version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
In 1967 the Associated British Picture Corporation released a ten-part serial adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It has since been lost and only parts 1 and 8 have survived. We were just sent a tip about episode 8 which has been uploaded to YouTube. You can view it below:
Episode 8, Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIS0ALJAwbI
Episode 8, Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOLFCX_Cf_U
UPDATE: The videos have been removed.
According to our tipster, “At the time, the ABC did not have the budget to store old programs, nor any idea there would be home video, so after an initial airing and a few repeats, the recording would be trashed or erased for re-use.” You can read more about this mini-series at Wikipedia.
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Thank you Jared for sending these in!
We now have proof of where the idea of "good" minotaurs originated from. . .
Aslan seemed a bit harsh, but for the most part it was a good adaption! 🙂 The narrator was funny. 🙂 I liked the music as well.
4:35- BIGFOOT SIGHTING!!! 😮 😮 😮 XDDDD am I the only person who finds this HILARIOUS?! I'm seriously cracking up here. XD
woh! Aslan just yelled at Lucy! what on earth that is messed up! i mean i know he gets after her in the books about once of twice but its never yelling he just lightly scolds her like a gentle parent correcting their child.
other than that these are making me laugh so much! old movies are so rediculous and hilarious its funny how that was considered talented acting and awesome effects and such back then XD
So this is where the BBC got their costume ideas from…lol, giant 6 feet beavers XD
(no offense to BBC version. They have a better script than the new films)
it mad me cringe the sound of it. I am bearly able to watch it because of the poor quality.
"How do I know your promises will be kept" "RARRRRRRRRRRRRR" HAHAHAHAHAHA.
My brothers came in while I was watching this and asked me what it was. I told them that aliens had landed some years back, read Narnia, and then made a film out of it. 😛 I can't believe that was made in the late 60s! I would have expected better quality and color from 1967. Weird. Anyway, it was pretty hilarious, very melodramatic, and nothing like the book, even though they practically quoted the book word for word. The WW looked like Cleopatra and Aslan looked like an alien. 😛 Oh, and when the dwarf was suppose to look like a stone, he just looked like a very bulking paper bag shuffling around. 😛
I actually really like the storytelling aspect… nice touch there! But the music sounds slightly psychedelic…
I actually really like the narrator element… nice touch there! But the music sounds slightly psychedelic…
I don't think the music originally sounded like that. The film has clearly deteriorated, leaving the visual quality very blurred. The deterioration has probably effected the sound as well.
Wow…that's all I can say, but it really is too bad they lost the other parts, however bad they may be, I would have loved to see them! I'm also wondering how they would have portreied (sorry for spelling)Aslan's death and the battle!
I can't believe there's still footage of this–I've wanted to see it for years! I really like the Professor. And Aslan and the Witch conferring looks just like Pauline Baynes's illustration! All things considered, it's an impressive attempt, but I can see why this hasn't become part of the Narnia film canon…
Gah, what a nightmare. I don't think I'll be getting any sleep tonight.
wow movie-making has really improved over the years! That was made in the 60's? I thought they had better quality back then, wow. It looks more like a theatre play than a movie. But- I guess if I had as little good resources as they had back then I couldn't have done much better!. Though Aslan seems totally different than he is in the book, even though he says the same things he says them so differently- whereas the new Walden media movies did it just how it was in the book even though they changed thew ords a little.
It's a TV film, and TV wasn't in colour in those days, even though normal films were. 😉 And of course TVs had a much lower budget.
I think this is totally charming , wish they had the rest
I can't believe the creatures are all standing up. And yet, and yet, I'm not so "terrorized" by this than the BBC version. The kids look a bit better (though Su is the same height as Ed and Lu's got that head of looooooong hair). And the White Witch isn't overly done-up. She actually looks something like Lewis' description: beautiful, but a cold beauty.
I agrre with you , I like the pevensie kids but i don´t like aslan
Same thing happened to dozens of old 60's episodes of Doctor Who… Shame, really, the BBC didn't expect it to be so popular – and look, here it is, still popular after almost 50 years. 🙂
I'm not exactly sure about this version… 🙂
Aslan's a bit too harsh.
It's lovely! I wish the whole thing was there. They really got most everything right. Wish I was alive when it was first broadcasted…how exciting! I can just see all the kids sitting around their television sets tuning into that days part of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe!