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The Polar Express

film by Zemeckis [2004]
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  • Poster for the film Swingtime Johnny (1943), which features the Andrews Sisters (left to right across the top): Maxene, Patty, and LaVerne. The actress and singer Harriet Hilliard (later Harriet Nelson) is pictured on the lower left.
    the Andrews Sisters

    … (1987), Jakob the Liar (1999), The Polar Express (2004), and The Chronicles of Narnia (2005).

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    … (1987), Jakob the Liar (1999), The Polar Express (2004), and The Chronicles of Narnia (2005).

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    Robert Zemeckis

    …in Cast Away (2000) and The Polar Express (2004), the latter of which marked the director’s first screenwriting credit in almost a decade. The film, which was based on the children’s book of the same title, employed motion-capture animation, a technique in which the filmed movements of live actors are…

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    …in Cast Away (2000) and The Polar Express (2004), the latter of which marked the director’s first screenwriting credit in almost a decade. The film, which was based on the children’s book of the same title, employed motion-capture animation, a technique in which the filmed movements of live actors are…

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