The Fir Tree

Duration: 27

Genre: Adaptation | Children's | Educational | Fantasy

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Ake Soderquist

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Dramatizes Hans Christian Andersen's story about the little fir tree with high hopes and ambitions. Shows how the fir tree, not wishing to be abandoned in the forest, is taken into a home, decorated as a Christmas tree, then stuffed into an attic and destroyed in a fire. Suggests the consequences which can result from excessive ambitions and the failure to appreciate one's present circumstances., Dramatizes Hans Christian Andersen's story about the little fir tree with high hopes and ambitions. Shows how the fir tree, not wishing to be abandoned in the forest, is taken into a home, decorated as a Christmas tree, then stuffed into an attic and destroyed in a fire. Suggests the consequences which can result from excessive ambitions and the failure to appreciate one's present circumstances.

Complete Record: Dramatizes Hans Christian Andersen's story about the little fir tree with high hopes and ambitions. Shows how the fir tree, not wishing to be abandoned in the forest, is taken into a home, decorated as a Christmas tree, then stuffed into an attic and destroyed in a fire. Suggests the consequences which can result from excessive ambitions and the failure to appreciate one's present circumstances., A live action dramatization of the Hans Christian Andersen story. A young fir tree longs to grow up and leave the forest. He considers it an honor to be chosen as a Christmas tree. After the festivities, however, the tree is abandoned in the attic and later chopped up and burned. , Hans Christian Andersen's fable about a young fir tree that longs to leave the forest in hopes of becoming a Christmas tree, yet does not recognize the fate of other trees that it sees being taken away. Set in the 1890's in a southern Ontario town, the film weaves Andersen's tale into a nostalgic portrait of a Canadian Christmas at the turn of the century. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.