Rip Van Winkle

Year: 1978

Runtime: 27 mins

Language: English

Director: Will Vinton

Animation

A lazy American named Rip Van Winkle wanders into the Catskill Mountains with his dog Wolf, where he meets a strange group of men drinking and playing bowls. He tastes their mysterious brew, collapses, and awakens under a tree to find twenty years have passed and the world is vastly changed. The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

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