The Tinder Box

Duration: 24

Genre: Adaptation | Children's | Educational | Fantasy

Year Published: 1967

Creator: Lillian Schwartz and Ken Knowlton

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Adapts Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about a soldier who wins a princess and a kingdom with the help of the dogs that guard a magic tinderbox. Raises questions about the inherent nature of good fortune, justice, wealth, fame, and ambition as the magic tinderbox brings the soldier difficulties as well as wealth.

Complete Record: Adapts Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about a soldier who wins a princess and a kingdom with the help of the dogs that guard a magic tinderbox. Raises questions about the inherent nature of good fortune, justice, wealth, fame, and ambition as the magic tinderbox brings the soldier difficulties as well as wealth., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.