The Halloween Tree (film)

Infobox Film | name = The Halloween Tree


caption = Title screen
director = Mario Piluso
producer = David Kirschner (executive)
Kunio Shimamura (associate)
Mario Piluso
Mark Young (co-executive)

writer = Ray Bradbury
starring = Leonard Nimoy (voice)
Ray Bradbury (voice)
music = John Debney
cinematography =
editing = Gil Iverson
distributor = Hanna-Barbera Productions
country = USA
released = flagicon|USA 1993
runtime = 90 min
language = English
budget =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0191173

"The Halloween Tree" is a 1993 feature-length animated film based on Ray Bradbury's 1972 fantasy novel "The Halloween Tree". It tells the story of a group of trick-or-treating children who learn about the origins and influences of Halloween when one of their friends is spirited away by mysterious forces. This cartoon is often featured on Cartoon Network during the Halloween season. It features the voice of Leonard Nimoy as the children's guide, Mr. Moundshroud. Ray Bradbury himself provided the voice of the Narrator, and won an Emmy Award for writing the special's screenplay. The film changes the novel's group of night travelers from eight boys to three boys and a girl.

A longer "author's preferred text" of the novel was published in 2005, which included the screenplay. [cite book
first = Ray
last = Bradbury
title = The Halloween Tree
location = Colorado Springs, Col.
publisher = Gauntlet Press
year = 2005
pages =
id = ISBN 1-887368-80-9 ]

Characters

* Mr. Moundshroud
* Tom Skelton - The boy wearing the skeleton costume.
* Jenny - The girl wearing the witch costume.
* Ralph - The boy wearing the mummy costume.
* Wally - The boy wearing the gargoyle costume.
* Pip - The boy whose illness inspires the nighttime journey (he did not wear a costume, but was in fact a ghost throughout most of the film).

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*imdb title|id=0191173|title=The Halloween Tree