TY - ADVS AU - Bass,Jules AU - Rankin,Arthur AU - Muller,Romeo AU - Huston,John AU - Bean,Orson AU - Preminger,Otto AU - Brother Theodore, AU - Frees,Paul AU - DeLeon,Jack AU - Messick,Don AU - Stephenson,John AU - Hake,Yukiyoshi AU - Itoh,Kazuko AU - Kakeko,Hidetoshi AU - Laws,Maury AU - Tolkien,J.R.R. ED - Rankin/Bass Productions. ED - Warner Bros. Family Entertainment (Firm) TI - The hobbit SN - 0790762595 (container) U1 - 791.457 PY - 2001///], c1978 CY - Burbank, CA PB - Warner Bros. Family Entertainment KW - Middle Earth (Imaginary place) KW - Juvenile films KW - Dragons KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Feature films N1 - Orignally produced as a television motion picture in 1978; Based on the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien; Animators, Yukiyoshi Hake, Kazuko Itoh, Hidetoshi Kakeko ... [et al.] ; original music, Maury Laws ; production designer, Arthur Rankin, Jr; John Huston, Orson Bean, Otto Preminger, Brother Theodore, Paul Frees, Jack DeLeon, Don Messick, John Stephenson; MPAA rating: PG; Also issued on VHS N2 - A long time ago, in Middle Earth, humans shared their days with elves, wizards, goblins, dragons, heroes ... and hobbits. Just minding his own business, Bilbo has a guest, Gandolf, drop in on him. Soon, one by one a whole group of dwarves drop in and Bilbo finds himself joining the quest to reclaim their kingdom from an evil dragon ER -