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Courtesy of Primrose Productions |
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| | | 35mm, black and white, 10 mins | | | | Director | Lotte Reiniger | | Production Company | Primrose Productions | | Production Team | Carl Koch, Vivian Milroy, Louis Hagen | | Music | Freddie Phillips |
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A tiny girl is born from a flower. A toad and a mole propose marriage, but she is rescued, first by some fish, then by a swallow, and meets the fairies, who welcome her and give her wings. Show full synopsis
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Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote this fairy tale, was himself a migratory personality. He spent his whole life travelling and wandering from his native country, Denmark, through all of Europe and was constantly inspired to create new stories. Lotte Reiniger loved Andersen's fairy tales all of her life. As early as 1921, she staged one of the Danish poet's fairy tales, The Flying Suitcase (Der Fliegende Koffer, Germany, 1921), and only one year before she died, she scissor-cut the illustrations for the fairy tale 'The Little Mermaid', which was published as a booklet.
Christel Strobel *This film is included in the BFI DVD compilation Lotte Reiniger: The Fairy Tale Films.
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Complete film (10:15)
