The Electric Grandmother is a 1982 television movie

Television movie

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 based on the short story "I Sing the Body Electric

I Sing the Body Electric (Bradbury)

I Sing the Body Electric! is a 1969 collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. The book takes its name from a line in Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.-Contents:The collection includes these stories:* "The Kilimanjaro Device"...

" by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...

. It stars Maureen Stapleton

Maureen Stapleton

Maureen Stapleton was an American actress in film, theater and television.-Early life:Stapleton was born Lois Maureen Stapleton in Troy, New York, the daughter of Irene and John P. Stapleton, and grew up in a strict Irish American Catholic family...

 and Edward Herrmann

Edward Herrmann

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 and was directed by Noel Black

Noel Black

Noel Black is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer.Black was born in Chicago, Illinois. He won awards at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival for an 18-minute short subject filmed in 1965 called Skaterdater. It had no dialogue, but used music and sound effects to advance...

. Bradbury's story was previously adapted for television in 1962 as "I Sing the Body Electric

I Sing the Body Electric (The Twilight Zone)

"I Sing the Body Electric" is the 100th episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.The script was written by Ray Bradbury, and based on his short story of the same name, itself named after a Walt Whitman poem. Although Bradbury contributed several scripts to The Twilight...

", an episode of The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...

. The film was distributed on VHS

VHS

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 by Coronet Video, but the video tape has now become hard to obtain.

Awards

The Electric Grandmother received an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 nomination, and won a Peabody Award

Peabody Award

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. It has been recognized by Chicago International Children's Film Festival

Chicago International Children's Film Festival

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, International Film Festival for Children and Youth, American Film Festival

American Film Festival

American Film Festival is a film festival held annually in October in Wrocław, Poland. First edition was held from 20 to 24 October 2010. The festival is organized by Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty and co-funded by the Wroclaw Municipality and Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.-...

 and the Southern California Motion Picture Council.

Reviews

"Devotees of science fiction in school classes or public library programs will find this a fascinating interpretation of Ray Bradbury's fiction."- School Library Journal.

External links

• The Electric Grandmother at IMDB