Fairytales From Around the World on 16mm

100 minutes

Experience legends and fairytales of old as you should: on charming 16mm prints!

Fairytales From Around the World on 16mm

Behold: legends and fairy tales of old! Literally recovered from a past long forgotten, these tales will take you back in time, to magical places, ancient kingdoms, or even to a happy fairytale land from many decades ago: Holland. Film collector Roloff de Jeu has brought together an eclectic mix of childhood favourites, studio gems, independently created mishaps and so much more, including a Superman-like mouse, a bad wolf, wacky knights, a pranking tailor apprentice... Experience oldies as you should: on charming 16mm film prints! 

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2022

Showing in this program

A Story, A Story

A Story, A Story

  • Gene Deitch
  • United States / Czech Republic, 1973
  • 9 min.

Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.

Arthur! and the Square Knights of the Round Table – Flower Power

Arthur! and the Square Knights of the Round Table – Flower Power

  • Zoran Janjic
  • United Kingdom / Australia, 1966
  • 6 min.
De Nar en de Kleermakers

De Nar en de Kleermakers

  • Hendrik de Vogel
  • The Netherlands, 1942
  • 9 min.

Tuyl is bij kleermakers in de leer, met wie hij allerlei streken uithaalt.

Happy Holland

Happy Holland

  • Eddie Donnelly
  • United States, 1952
  • 6 min.

When a Dutch wolf puts the snatch on a Dutch-damsel-in-distress, the Holland-visiting Might Mouse comes to her rescue. As always, the Super Mighty Mouse, has a few problems before the villain is dispatched, but comes though in the end.

Little Dutch Plate

Little Dutch Plate

  • Friz Freleng
  • United States, 1935
  • 7 min.

A cheery tune in a Dutch kitchen; the girl on the plate and the salt shaker boy are in love. They dance. The girls on the blue plates join in. An evil-looking vinegar bottle comes after them with the mortgage for their windmill. The boy has just 30 minutes to get the money. The piggy bank only yields one cent.

Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf

  • Clyde Geronimi
  • United States, 1946
  • 15 min.

Animated version of the fairy tale of the Russian boy Peter and his hunt for a raiding wolf, presented to the music of Sergei Prokofiev.

Strega Nona

Strega Nona

  • Gene Deitch
  • United States, 1977
  • 8 min.

Big Anthony, left alone with Strega Nona’s magic pasta pot, runs into trouble when he decides to show the townspeople how it works.

The Big Bad Wolf (Compilation)

The Big Bad Wolf (Compilation)

  • Burt Gillett
  • United States, 1934
  • 2 min.

Red Riding Hood is accompanied by Fiddler Pig and Piper Pig as she takes a shortcut through the forest to deliver food to her sick grandmother.