'Iron Giant' to be screened at Burbank library

‘Iron Giant’ to be screened at Burbank library

Nov. 10, 2015 5:37 PM PT

The Burbank Public Library and Warner Bros. will present a screening of the animated film “The Iron Giant” next week. The film has been remastered with two new scenes added.

The screening will be presented from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. next Wednesday at the Buena Vista Branch Library, 300 N. Buena Vista St., and participants will have a chance to have their photo taken with a statue of the Iron Giant. Artwork from the film will also be on display.

In the film, 9-year-old Hogarth Hughes befriends a giant iron robot who falls to Earth following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957 and must later save the small town where Hughes and his mother, Annie, live.

Wall Street Journal critic Joe Morgenstern called it “an instant classic” when it hit theaters in 1999. It earned nine Annie Awards and was also the directorial debut for Brad Bird, who went on to earn Best Animated Feature Film Oscars for his second and third animated films — “The Incredibles” and “Ratatouille.”

Chad Garland, chad.garland@latimes.com

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Chad Garland

Chad Garland covered the city of Burbank and Bob Hope Airport for the Burbank Leader until 2016. Previously, he has covered Arizona’s congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., for Cronkite News Service and Oregon’s Legislature for the Associated Press. His work investigating questionable veterans’ charities as part of the award-winning News21 national investigative project “Back Home” earned a “Best in Business” award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2013. Before becoming a reporter, he spent more than a decade in various assignments related to national defense. An Illinois native, his first California address was at Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego. He has degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Arizona State University, as well as a diploma from the Army’s Defense Language Institute in Monterey, where he learned to speak Russian.