For the second year in succession, we were persuaded by Carl Gover of The Animation Partnership, to produce a charity commercial for UNICEF entitled “Send a smile, send hope”.

The basic concept was to sell the Organisation’s Christmas cards by depicting young children from a variety of ethnic groups - all displaying wonderful smiles.

As before, there was next to nothing in the budget - so it meant relying again on favours from everyone involved, including the live-action director, the artistes taking part, the music company, the video-to-film transfer people,

and of course the laboratories for producing all the cinema prints. It was a great achievement, in a remarkably short time - thanks to the efforts of Chris Bartle, Mcasso Music, Cinesite and Soho Images.

Patricia Currie at Unicef was incredibly impressed by the entire operation and touched by the sheer generosity of everyone concerned.

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