RUPERT AND THE FROGS MOVIE
McCartney had been planning his Rupert movie since at least the early 1970s, when his company, McCartney Productions Ltd., acquired the rights to the film the day after the Beatles' break-up. Windsor Davies (voice) – Rupert's Father, Father Frog.June Whitfield (voice) – Rupert's Mother.Paul McCartney (voice) – Rupert, Edward, Bill, Boy Frog.After hearing his mother call him, Rupert excitedly rushes home to tell his family about what he saw. After a thunderous applause from the frogs, the owl, who had followed Rupert to find out where the frogs were hiding, launches itself for an attack on the royals, but Rupert manages to warn the frogs in time and they all quickly retreat, leaving the owl and the cats empty-handed and the palace completely empty.
Around the end, the frog King and Queen rise out of the water before the crowd to finish off the song. There, he witnesses the Frog Song, an event that occurs only once in a few hundred years in which various frogs of all shapes and sizes come together and 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. As he leaves, a large white barn owl and two black cats decide to follow him. Suddenly, he finds himself enveloped by a rainbow cloud of butterflies previously masquerading as leaves on the oak tree, and all of them swarm away from the leafless tree towards a rocky outcrop Rupert cannot resist following them. As Rupert reaches a hill, he props himself up against the trunk of an oak tree and enjoys the glory of the countryside. With his Mother's blessing, he sets off for a jolly trip, encountering his friends Edward Elephant and Bill Badger along the way, who are too busy to join him - Bill needs to look after his baby brother and Edward has to do some shopping. Eventually, I had the idea to make a short film with an animator I admired, Geoff Dunbar.Rupert Bear decides to head off for a walk on the hills. There were so many different things to think about, things like securing the rights. “I remember telling John Lennon about it, and he encouraged me to have a go, which was great, but you need more than that to make a film. “I had wanted to make a Rupert feature film for a while but didn’t realize what a difficult task it actually was,” he explains. He wrote songs and stories for it that remain unreleased, one of them even dating back to The Beatles’ Let It Be sessions in 1969. McCartney had originally intended to make a feature-length film, on which work began in the 1970s. There was a standout image in color, and when I saw it, I could imagine a concert of frogs with them all doing different parts, a choir, and an orchestra, and I could almost hear the music.” “I remember getting the idea for a film project when looking through one of them. As a kid, I would always get the Rupert Annual at Christmas,” he says, recalling a specific drawing from the 1958 edition. It started with Disney cartoons and went on from there. The film became the UK’s biggest selling video of 1985 in the UK and won both an Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Soundtrack and a BAFTA for Best Animated Short Film, as well as a Grammy nomination for McCartney. The film had Paul voicing the character of Rupert and featured the voices of much-loved British comedy actors June Whitfield, as Rupert’s mother, and Windsor Davies (Father Frog). It has now been fully restored in 4k and has a new audio mix. McCartney recorded it in 1980 and began work writing and producing the Rupert and The Frog Song film in 1981 with animator and eventual director Geoff Dunbar. The hit, which reached No.3 in the UK, was produced by George Martin and features the King’s Singers and the choir of St Paul’s Cathedral. The picture disc is shaped exactly as the 1984 original, and the new edition comes with a poster, and the original B-side “We All Stand Together (Humming Version).” Both have been remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Alex Wharton. So, congratulations, my little bear. Your fans are celebrating your 100th birthday, and I, for one, think you deserve a telegram from the Queen.” “In his character and attitudes to the world, he sums up the best of British tradition and reminds us of an innocence we would all love to cherish.
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