 Some criticism was levelled at the altered ending, with one paper reporting, "Orwell would not have liked this one change, with its substitution of commonplace propaganda for his own reticent, melancholy satire".The film took 15 years to recover its budget but earned profits in the next 5 years.In 1954 Harold Whitaker, one of the film's animators, adapted the film into a comic strip published in various British regional newspapers.