Release
Much of the pre-release promotion for the film in the UK focused on it being a British film instead of a product of the Hollywood studios.
When first released, the British Board of Film Classification gave this film a rating certificate of "X" (the same category is now "18") prohibiting anyone under 18 from seeing the film, presumably due to its very political and violent behaviour. The film has since been re-classified as "U" (Universal), suitable for all audiences.
To coincide with the film's release, a comic strip version was serialised in newspapers, drawn by Harold Whitaker, one of the animators.
Scenes from Animal Farm, along with the 1954 TV programme Nineteen Eighty-Four, were featured in "The Two Winstons", the final episode of Simon Schama's program A History of Britain.
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