Sleeping Beauty ~
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Year Published: 1950
Country of Origin: United States
Description: 16mm Film - Sleeping Beauty - USA ~1950 Directed by: George Freedland Written by: Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and Kenneth Brodney Cinematography by: Peter Levent and S. Jegoudez Music by: Ivan Semenoff et al. Starring: Julie Gibson, Roland Pilain's Children's Theatre aka Le Théâtre des enfants de Roland Pilain (Paris) et al. ussian-born director George(s) Freedland, who emigrated to the USA for several years during the occupation of his adopted country of France, made this short film 'Sleeping Beauty', which was previously thought to be lost, as part of the series 'The World's Great Fairytales' alongside 'Little Red Riding Hood' and 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. In addition to the well-known American actress Julie Gibson as the narrator, this fairytale play was performed exclusively by members of the ensemble of the 'Théâtre des enfants de Roland Pilain (Paris)'. I therefore assume that the main part of the film was shot in France and only the framing story with Julie Gibson was shot in the USA. Particularly noteworthy is the musical use of a theremin, which was usually only used in science fiction and horror films in the 1950s. Der in Russland geborene Regisseur George(s) Freedland, der während der Okkupation seiner Wahlheimat Frankreich für einige Jahre in die USA emigriert war, drehte im Rahmen der Serie 'Die großen Märchen der Welt' neben 'Rotkäppchen' und 'Jack und die Bohnenstange' auch diesen bislang für verschollen geglaubten Kurzfilm 'Sleeping Beauty/Dornröschen'. Neben der bekannten amerikanischen Schauspielerin Julie Gibson als Erzählerin wirkten in diesem Märchenspiel ausschließlich Ensemblemitglieder des 'Théâtre des enfants de Roland Pilain (Paris)' mit. Ich nehme daher an, dass der Hauptteil des Films in Frankreich gedreht worden ist und nur die Rahmenhandlung mit Julie Gibson in den USA. Besonders erwähnenswert ist der musikalische Einsatz eines Theremins, wie er sonst in den 50er Jahren meist nur in Science Fiction und Horror Filmen vorkam. Support my work on Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/theartoffilmon16mm
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[Music] [Music] [Music] once upon a time there was an old old castle long ago he far [Music] away it was in a poor little kingdom but everyone was very happy because a great event had taken place the king sent his Harrow to call the three wide Fair a princess had been born it was the C fairies to bestow their precious gifts upon a new [Music] princess the first one wished that the King's Daughter would grow up the most beautiful princess in the world the second one with that she would be clever kind and truthful but before the third good fairy could make her wish for the princess there appeared a very old fairy whom the king had forgotten to call and so out of Revenge she wished a terrible thing that when the princess grew to be 15 years she would prick her finger on a spindle and die but the third good Fair hadn't made this yet and though she couldn't take back the wish of the wicked fairy she wished that the little princess should not die but sleep for a 100 years when a handsome prince would come to wake her up well the princess reached her 15th birthday and everyone had forgotten about the [Music] evil and on that morning the king gave her a beautiful little Golden Crown and the princess was so pleased with her birthday present that after kissing her mother the queen and her father the king then she went to show her crown to Molly the Royal cook who was busy preparing the birthday feast in the Royal Kitchen with the help of Tom scallion who really wasn't any help at all [Music] and it happened that as the princess was wandering through the castle she saw an old old door that she'd never seen before and even though she was a princess she was still a curious little girl and so she opened the door and found herself at the foot of a dark Old Stone staircase but she started [Music] clim up the tower stairs and at the top she found a door and look at a room where an old woman sat turning a wooden [Music] wheel and the princess was astounded because she'd never seen a spinning wheel but we didn't tell you that the king had ordered all the spindles in the whole Kingdom burned up so she thought she love to see how it [Music] worked the old woman smiled because she was the Wicked fairy who had wished that the princess would pick her finger on her 15th birthday [Music] [Music] and now that the evil wi had come true and the wicked fairy had disappeared the little princess was ready to die but luckily the W of the third good fairy also came true and the little princess did not [Music] die one by one the good fairy put everybody in the castle to sleep [Music] and up in the little Tower room the princess fell deeper and deeper into the Slumber that was to last a 100 years people got old and their children grew up and got married and they got old and one bright sunshiny day there came a handsome prince on a white horse when the prince came to a farmer who was working in the field he asked what's behind that hedge but all the farmer could tell him was an old legend about a Sleeping Beauty in the castle and that nobody had ever been able to get through the Hedge but the prince decided to try anyway and discover what lay on the other side and in the Royal Tom the scaran had flept for a full Century without getting a single flap and finally the prince found the very door through which the princess had passed a 100 years before and like her the prince started to climb the tower stairs oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] and the prince and the princess of course Ever After h
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