Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman is one of the most beautiful and charming films ever made. Adapted from Raymond Briggs’ best-selling book and nominated for an Oscar© in 1982, it is the story of a boy whose snowman comes to life at midnight, and the two embark on a series of magical adventures. Awarded the British Academy Award© for best children’s entertainment of 1982, The Snowman is an essential children’s classic.

iTunes Store: Customer Reviews

Beautiful

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Baldydafydd

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2023-12-28

But no extras, such a great artist and wonderful classic, Dolby or 4k be nice??

Can someone confirm if it’s Dolby?????

Cropped and missing intro of a masterpiece

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Kato_sw

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2023-12-22

A Christmas favourite. I can’t fault the film itself, but a word of warning, the ITunes Store version has cropped the original 4:3 frame and it is also missing the intro from David Bowie. Hopefully Apple provide an updated version soon.

The Snowman

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Goldieloocks

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2019-11-28

It’s really good for kids to watch even adults

Poor transfer

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Cinebuns

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2019-09-24

Film: *****

Transfer: **

Poorly encoded video that cannot faithfully display the beautiful pencil animation (artifacts everywhere), despite the source seeming to be in very good shape. It's also cropped from 4:3 to 16:9, so lots of information missing top and bottom (even the SD version).

Boring

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ry87

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2018-12-21

why do people enjoy a poorly drawn non talking film.just a lot of annoying music playing to random grainy pictures with nothing really happening.so he builds a snowman that melts,so what? I wouldn’t watch it on tv for free and certainly wouldn’t pay for it.theres plenty of great Disney films out from the same time with beautiful animation and actual speaking so that means there’s a story to it.if I wanted to look at pictures I’d be into art and I hate art

Where is the Father Christmas version???

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Parsgaz

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2017-10-30

The snowman is good but the Father Christmas is the best n needs to be available on itunes.

😍😍😍😤

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Mvdz98

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2015-12-25

Great Christmas classic, but where the hell is the original intro????

HD version is appalling quality

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Andrew Till

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2013-12-27

I love The Snowman but the poor image quality is extremely distracting. It looks like it's been 'sharpened' to look more HD, but all it's done is accentuated the poor transfer of an old film. Had I known it'd look this bad I'd have gone for the standard definition version instead.

Poor quality HD

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isometry

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2013-01-01

Picture quality of the HD version is atrocious. Stick with SD.

Snowman

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Debbie Finlay

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2012-12-29

Wonderful film, but £6.99 for 1/2 hour that is unacceptable!! I should have read the reviews before purchasing!! Very very disappointed with iTunes. Never again!!! iTunes you seriously need to credit people for this and review your pricing!!!

a modern masterpiece

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Mark Learey

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2012-12-26

this animation evokes wonderful childhood memories - the music and animation combined is perfect. I am sad to see the David Bowie intro missing from this remastered version and the aspect ratio is wrong with strange framing, feeling very much like someone with a pair of scissors has simply chopped the top and bottom off what was an artistic masterpiece! :(

The Snowman

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xxlondonahxx

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2012-12-24

Rip off.

Overpriced

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Aleend134

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2012-12-23

Come on iTunes, £6.99 really? For 30 minutes!!! Watching it now for free on channel 4

Bizarre pricing

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DreamcasterUK

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2012-12-23

I'm not one to normally criticise iTunes pricing, as it is after all decided by the content producers themselves, but £7 for a 25 minute short film with no extras is crazy when Raymond Brigg's feature length animation When The Wind Blows is available for £5.

The only possible explanation for it can be that the producers believe that the Snowman will be in such high demand that they're trying to get as much out of people as they possibly can. As far as I'm concerned at 25 minutes it's "episode length" and therefore should be priced at £2.49

Snowman

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Bobb010

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2012-12-21

Excellent graphics and sound.

To expensive

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Qwuübï

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2012-12-20

Great film but as the title says...

Good memories from 1980s

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iLimPhone

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2012-12-19

I always loved watch this film when I was young in 1980s at home and school. I found this film on Apple and love try it on my iPod Touch (4th) - perfect picture (don't worry about two black bars at top and bottom).

Too expensive apple!

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Josnow2078

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2012-12-18

Great film but as the title says

The Snowman

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dc1960

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2012-12-17

Original film is fantastic HOWEVER this one is missing the David Bowie intro that sets the story, it feels like you've started watching the film halfway through very poor if i'd known I would not have bought it

Best Christmas tv

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Mjclln1967

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2012-12-17

Saw this when I was one of the little people, it is just so perfect and uncomplicated, and brings back so many great memories. My 3 year old son saw it for the first time last week, loved it, snow, flying snowman, Father Christmas, dancing, it has it all.

the snowman

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big T1313

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2012-12-14

the best christmas movie I've seen but i like elf the most