Winter of the Witch

i watched this movie when i was in grade school too. i've wanted to see this movie again for a long time. i've looked for it for a long time, and this is the first time i have proof that it was a real movie and not a figment of my imagination. I have told my husband about it,and i'd love to show him the movie. i've asked people if they remember it, but most haven't. My older siblings remember seeing it too, but no one could remember the title of the movie. For a long time i thought it was a lost cause. Does anyone have a copy that can be downloaded to the computer? i've seen that it is available to buy, but i'd love to see it without having to pay $20 for a 22 minute program.

Wow! It is not a dream. I have been looking for this movie for a while now. My classmate remembers it, but no one else has heard of it. Just like everybody has said,"on a rainy day in elementary school we watched this movie...." (Crestwood, Visalia Ca.) I have to see it again just to know why it has stuck with me. Does anybody remember the cartoon superhero and a very sugary cereal, or something like that. I think they had commercials for this cereal, but it made your teeth fall out or something like that? This sounds like a stupid description, but I can't remember much more, it was 25 or so years ago. Oh yeah, and that orange monkey puppet thing? what was that?

Hooray!! I am so glad that I finally found the name of this movie!! Thank you. I saw this movie in grade school in Hudson, Ohio in the 80s and am so glad to have found the name. Does anyone remember a movie seen in grade school about a man's last thoughts before he was hung? Or, a movie about two kids watching a huge TV screen watching lions? Or, a movie about kids that came out of a test tube like apparatus which actually looked like a tar barrel? The education department showed us some weird stuff when we were younger. BTW, what is the deal with this blog that I have to have ten lines of text in order to make a comment?

I could cut and paste everyone's statements into this text. I wonder if there are other IMDb films that pull together movie orphans like this one has? I, too, watched this annually in Elementary School and NEVER forgot it. I remembered the song that accompanied the freeze frame dot frenzy and the sound of the running film projector in the background. I also remember thinking it was out of date---I saw it in 1982-84 so no one dressed like that anymore. I was a melancholy kid at times and remember thinking how great it would be to eat mood-altering pancakes--this movie really opened up my eyes relative to I suppose the way LSD did for the adults who made the film!! I found someone who had a VHS and got a copy...it holds up to memory. The other movie he sent me was "ciphor in the snow." I can't believe they showed us that film now that I'm viewing it through the eyes of an adult. It breaks your heart. Sigh--thanks for a place where people love this movie as much as I. I'd never met anyone else who remembered seeing it besides my brother.

.....then by all means let me know directly at the above e-mail address so that I may arrange for a copy for you. Probably the most memorable memory of off-the-wall gradeschool 16mm screenings I've ever logged. And many seem to be in the same boat as I. Who could possibly forget the unsinkable Hermoine Gingold as a sad old witch whose abode is intruded upon by a single mom and her young son in search of an alternative to urban hustle & bustle, setting into motion an irresistibly oddball tale of friendship and redemption. An inspired and unique experience; there really is nothing else quite like it, and those 'happy' pancakes are a hoot. It's enough to make you want to drop everything and embark on a pilgrimage to Goshen (NY) where this was filmed, just to see if there's anything left of the gloriously creaky old mansion depicted in the film, if not any leftover pancakes.