Howard Blake

It is a holiday institution in the UK.

The film is famous for adding the hauntingly beautiful song Walking in the Air, composed by Howard Blake, and it notably extends the magical flight sequence, taking the boy and the snowman all the way to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus, making it a much more traditional holiday narrative.

But the ending, we have to talk about the ending, because while the movie has that sweeping music, the book zeroes in on this final, silent, devastating image.

The morning comes, the sun rises, the boy runs outside, and the snowman melts.