The Seventh mandarin

Series: The Desire to read

Duration: 18

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Xerox

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 10Nov72 · LP43693 (Jul-Dec 1974) Copyright holder: Xerox Corporation Production company: Stephen Bosustow Productions

Description: An animated story about a mandarin who loses his emperor's kite and, while searching for it, discovers that the people outside the palace are poor and starving. , Episode of Series “The Desire to read”. Long ago in a walled palace lived a Chinese emperor, guarded and guided by seven assistants called mandarins. None of them ever set foot outside the palace and they knew nothing of the people until the seventh and youngest mandarin ventured out one night…Based on the picture book by Jane Yolen.

Complete Record: An animated story about a mandarin who loses his emperor's kite and, while searching for it, discovers that the people outside the palace are poor and starving. , Episode of Series “The Desire to read”. Long ago in a walled palace lived a Chinese emperor, guarded and guided by seven assistants called mandarins. None of them ever set foot outside the palace and they knew nothing of the people until the seventh and youngest mandarin ventured out one night…Based on the picture book by Jane Yolen.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.