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The Puppet films of Jiri Trnka [videorecording] : featuring The emperor's nightingale /

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: ID9005ASDVD | Image EntertainmentLanguage: Czech, English Summary language: English Publication details: Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, c1999.Description: 1 videodisc (156 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:

Emperor's nightingale

Contained works:

Andersen, H. C. 1805-1875. Nattergalen
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Roman s kontrabasom

Subject(s):

Trnka, Jiří, 1912-1969

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

791.433 P969 21

LOC classification:

PN1997.5 .P87 1999

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.).

Production 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.

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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD 0006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050088497

DVD release of short films produced between 1944 and 1965.

Originally produced in Czechoslovakia by the Prague Puppet Unit, and distributed by Rembrandt Films.

Not licensed for classroom use

Not rated.

DVD, NTSC digital mono.

Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.

For use at the University of Toronto only.

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