Rupert's mother soon after calls him back home, and Rupert excitedly tells her about what he saw of the Frog Song.
The king and queen are almost snatched by the barn owl, but they re-submerge just in time, the owl leaves, along with the cats, disappointed. After a thunderous applause from the frogs, The owl, (who sneaked in also undetected with the cats), launches for an attack on the royals, Rupert yells, "Look out!" and all the frogs quickly disappear.
Around the end, the frog King and Queen rise out of the water before the crowd. After a moment of silence, most of the frogs sing "We All Stand Together". He sneaks into the palace, trying to avoid getting caught by the frog guards. He walks into a cave behind a waterfall and sees three signs: "Frogs only beyond this Point", "Everything except frogs must be kept on a lead", and "Guard frogs operating". Upon the rocks, Rupert finds a large number of multicolored frogs. Once he leaves, a large white Barn Owl lands on the barren tree along with two black cats. Suddenly he finds himself enveloped by a rainbow cloud of butterflies, and all of them swarm away from the leafless oak tree towards a rocky outcrop and Rupert could not resist following them. Once there, he props himself up against the trunk of an oak tree and sucks in the glory of the countryside. Rupert accepts his friends are busy, as he sets out to the hills and wishes them a good day. Rupert asks them if they join him on his trip to the hills, but Edward has to go do some shopping while Bill has to look after his baby brother, Tobey. On the way he encounters his friends Edward and Bill. With his Mother's blessing he sets off for a jolly trip.
I guarantee you that there are far more irritating cartoons for under-sevens than this.One day Rupert Bear decides to climb the hills.
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Was it an indulgence by a multi-millionaire with buzzing nostalgia circuits of his own? Possibly, but it made lots of people happy, both beginning readers and older folk with attics full of dusty Rupert annuals. Paul was excoriated by the humorless and mean-spirited British press for ages for producing this movie, which doesn’t seem fair. I think this is the sort of character you need to meet as a preschooler and he’ll stick around in your nostalgia circuits for decades to come, kind of like Bob the Builder. It kept our son’s attention, and he chuckled a couple of times, but at nine, he’s certainly a little old for it already. A new remastered edition of the film debuted today on McCartney’s YouTube channel. Nothing of consequence happens in Frog Song, but it’s simple, sweet, bucolic, and nicely animated, and, unlike Broad Street, it’s over in thirteen minutes. In the UK, it was shown as a short subject before his deeply ill-advised film Give My Regards to Broad Street. McCartney had been a big Rupert Bear fan as a boy and this had been a long-simmering project with him, to put Rupert Bear on the big screen. There are two potentially mean cats and an owl, but they don’t actually do anything. The film is a thirteen minute piece about Rupert going into a cave behind a waterfall and watching some frogs sing a song, which they do every two hundred years. It seems to be a sweet and simple story about an idealized pastoral village populated by animal people being nice to each other.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that probably ninety-odd percent of those Americans who’ve ever heard of Rupert Bear are Beatles fans. “We All Stand Together” was the theme tune to a short animated feature called Rupert and the Frog Song, starring Rupert Bear, a character who’s appeared in a strip in the Daily Express for one hundred years this week. Okay, so neither “Together” nor the new song, “Once Upon a Long Ago,” are among McCartney’s best. Both “Together” and the new song were omitted.
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And adding insult to injury, soon there was a new McCartney best-of with a brand new single, as you get with best-ofs, and when that record made it to American shelves, it had a different track list. Rupert And the Frog Song (Book of the Film) by David Hately,Paul McCartney 9780721410289,Buy new & second-hand (used) books online with Free UK Delivery. digital intermediate restoration colourist Music Department George Martin. The wildest example I heard of at that time was that Paul McCartney had a massive hit single in the UK at the end of 1984 called “We All Stand Together” that wasn’t issued here. Directed by Geoff Dunbar Writing Credits (in alphabetical order) Cast Produced by Music by Paul McCartney Film Editing by Tony Fish Peter Hearn Art Department Sound Department Animation Department Editorial Department Susumu Asano. Around 1986-87, when I first decided I’d start collecting records, I remember being amazed to learn that the dimwit record companies would often just not release songs or singles in one country or another.
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