Fairy Tale
see all genres ›Those unforgettable, scary, magical and sometimes instructive whimsies of childhood were always natural raw material for film’s fantastical trickery.
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The Fairy
Dom works as a night clerk at a small hotel in the industrial port city of Le Havre. One night, a strangely dressed woman named Fiona arrives and claims she is a fairy. She grants Dom three wishes, and makes his first two wishes come true before mysteriously vanishing. By now, Dom has fallen in...Watch Movie
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Santa Claus
The producers of the legendary made-in-Mexico SANTA CLAUS packed every magical, wacky holiday oddity known to man in to this wild, wonderful and strangely charming children’s classic! It’s not enough that Santa must deal with the usual suspects (the good little boys and girls; the not so good...Watch Movie
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Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
Nominated for the 2010 Academy Award® for Animated Short Film. Granny tells the story of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the elderly fairy, who intends to get her revenge for not being invited to the Royal Christening with the more glamorous and youthful fairies who...Watch Movie
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The Adventures of Prince Achmed
When THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED premiered in Germany on September 23, 1926 it was hailed as the first full-length animated film. More than seventy-five years later, Lotte Reiniger's enchanting film (made in collaboration with Carl Koch, Reiniger's husband) still stands as...Watch Movie
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A Catalog of Anticipations
A woman drifts back to childhood memories of rural Texas where her discovery of the jawbone of a horse in a field leads to a fascination with, in her own words, "dead things." Her natural history collection of insects and bones takes on a supernatural quality when she finds...Watch Movie
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
In 1905, Segundo de Chomón added intertitles and hand-tinting to a film previously released by Pathe in 1902. The events in the film play out as they do in the fairy tale: Ali Baba chances upon the Forty Thieves' desert stash-house and steals some of their treasure. His...Watch Movie
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Fairy tales constituted one of the earliest and most successful forms of elaborate storytelling on film, notably Georges Méliès's CINDERELLA (1899) and BLUE BEARD (1902). Inspired by such European achievements, Porter made this ten-shot fiction film that told its story in a...Watch Movie
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Atalanta: 32 Years Later
A retelling of the age-old fairy tale of the beautiful princess in search of the perfect prince. In 1974, Marlo Thomas’ hip, liberal celebrity gang created a feminist version of the children’s parable for mainstream TV’s “Free to Be You and Me”. Now in 2006, Sachs dreamed up...Watch Movie
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Cinderella
An elaborately produced version of the well known fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham. Although in-camera trick photography is important for the story, it is rather conventional, having been introduced over ten years earlier by...Watch Movie
