{"id":34523,"date":"2025-07-02T13:57:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34523"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:57:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:57:47","slug":"a-hobbit-you-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34523","title":{"rendered":"A Hobbit You Didn&#8217;t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s an animated Hobbit I didn&#8217;t know about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First Animated Hobbit - directed by Gene Deitch, produced by Rembrandt Films\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UBnVL1Y2src?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the YouTube page: &#8220;In the early 1960&#8217;s, animation producer William L. Snyder (founder of Rembrandt Films) told his director and collaborator, Gene Deitch, that he had purchased the rights to an unknown 1937 children&#8217;s novel, THE HOBBIT. In order to hold his option, Snyder had to &#8220;produce a full-color motion picture of THE HOBBIT&#8221; by a certain date in 1966. So to meet this deadline while he tried to interest the studios in a much bigger motion picture, the very first version of THE HOBBIT was produced by Rembrandt Films and directed by Gene Deitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly&#8230; different!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an animated Hobbit I didn&#8217;t know about. From the YouTube page: &#8220;In the early 1960&#8217;s, animation producer William L. Snyder (founder of Rembrandt Films) told his director and collaborator, Gene Deitch, that he had purchased the rights to an unknown 1937 children&#8217;s novel, THE HOBBIT. In order to hold his option, Snyder had to<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34523\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A Hobbit You Didn&#8217;t Know&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[5250,134],"class_list":["post-34523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien","tag-rembrandt-films","tag-the-hobbit","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}