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The puppet films of Jiri Trnka ; The emperor's nightingale / Kratky Film ; Rembrandt Film.
LIBRA DVD 018 912
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Nattergalen, author.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Roman s kontrabasom, author.
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trnka, Jiří, 1912-1969.
- Trnka, Jiří.
- Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875--Film adaptations.
- Andersen, H. C.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904--Film adaptations.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.
- Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
- Fairy tales.
- Dreams--Drama.
- Dreams.
- Potters.
- Cellists.
- Cellists--Drama.
- Potters--Drama.
- Western plays.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Animated films.
- Puppet films.
- Film adaptations.
- Short films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Emperor's nightingale
- Place of Publication:
- Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [1999]
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Story of the bass cello is based on Chekhov's story about a bass player whose clothes are stolen while he's bathing in a river. The song of the prairie is a parody of the wild American West where the pistol rules, timidity has no place, and love blossoms. The merry circus, created by using paper cut-outs and stop-action photography, shows an afternoon at a circus. A drop too much is the tragic tale of a motorcyclist who, happily on his way to meet his fiancee, stops at a tavern with disastrous results. The hand tells the story of a happy artist who devotes his time to making a pot for his favorite flower until he is ordered by a giant hand to create a statue instead. Jiri Trnka, puppet animation master is a brief documentary that includes clips of the artist working on his puppets and excerpts from some of his films. The emperor's nightingale is based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen in which the emperor loves the song of the nightingale so much that he buys an artificical bird which breaks the real nightingale's heart.
- Contents:
- Román s basou = Story of the bass cello (1949, 13 min.)
- Arie prerie = The song of the prairie (1949, 21 min.)
- The merry circus (1951, 11 min.)
- A drop too much (1954, 14 min.) / director, Brětislav Pojar
- Ruka = The hand (1965, 18 min.)
- Jiri Trnka : puppet animation master (12 min.) / produced by Rembrandt Films
- The emperor's nightingale [English version] (1944, 67 min.).
- Participant:
- Narrator, Boris Karloff.
- Credits:
- Animators, Jiri Trnka ... [et al.] ; music, Vaclav Trojan ... [et al.]. Emperor's nightingale [English version] / producer, Bohumír Buriánek ; English version produced by William L. Snyder ; narrative written by Phyllis McGinley ; narrated by Boris Karloff.
- Notes:
- DVD release of short films produced between 1944 and 1965.
- Originally produced in Czechoslovakia by the Prague Puppet Unit, and distributed by Rembrandt Films.
- Contains:
- Román s basou
- Story of the bass cello
- Arie prerie
- Song of the prairie
- Merry circus
- Drop too much
- Ruka
- Hand
- Jiri Trnka, puppet animation master
- OCLC:
- 43767867
- Publisher Number:
- 014381900521
- ID9005ASDVD Image Entertainment
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