The Velveteen Rabbit backdrop

The Velveteen Rabbit 1985 Directed by Pino Van Lamsweerde

A boy receives a Velveteen Rabbit for Christmas. The Velveteen Rabbit is snubbed by other more expensive or mechanical toys, the latter of which fancy themselves real. One day while talking with the Skin Horse, the Rabbit learns that a toy becomes real if its owner really and truly loves it. The Skin Horse makes the Velveteen Rabbit aware that "...once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."

Country USA
Production Country Canada
Language English
Spoken Language English
Gneres Animation , Family
Production Company Atkinson Film Arts
Release Date 2 April 1985
30 mins
Cast
Christopher Plummer Narrator (voice)
Charity Brown Fairy Queen / Nanny (voice)
Rick Jones Rabbit #1 / Rabbit #2 (voice)
James Bradford Tin Soldier (voice)
Don Westwood Jones (voice)
Bernard McManus Skin Horse (voice) (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn Doctor (voice) (uncredited)
Chuck Collins Boy (voice)