High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charlotte's Web is a 1973 animated film, based upon the 1952 children's book of the same name by E. B. White. The film, like the book, is about a pig who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte and was adapted into an animated musical film by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Sagittarius Productions in 1973. The film, distributed to theatres by Paramount Pictures on March 1, 1973, is the first of only three Hanna-Barbera f ...