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Image and Symbol => Myth and Folktale => Topic started by: Matt Koeske on March 09, 2007, 03:38:52 PM

Title: Fairtyales on Film
Post by: Matt Koeske on March 09, 2007, 03:38:52 PM

http://www.davenportfilms.com/pages/main_frombrosgrimm.html

A series of short films made by Tom Davenport, "literary anthropologist and moral godfather to a generation of schoolchildren".

I haven't seen these (you can purchase them on DVD at the site).

I have seen and recommend Jim Henson's Storyteller series (http://www.amazon.com/Jim-Hensons-Storyteller-Definitive-Collection/dp/B000EU1Q5E/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-0284023-1508445), also available on DVD.  The fairytales are wonderful (the Greek myths didn't do much for me).  Worth the $14 50 times over (get it while it's still in print, that's my recommendation; $14 sounds like a liquidation price).  Such marvelous stories (given a darkish Jim Henson's Creature Shop twist).

Amazing how one can revisit a great story again and again and it just keeps giving.  The fairytales from the Storyteller are like that.

-Matt

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More Storyteller links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Storyteller
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092383/

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http://www.angelfire.com/me3/muppets/Storyteller.html this link has an adware virus, make sure you have virus & adware software installed and running!



. . . and besides, the Muppet dog in the show animated by Brian Henson looks like my dog, Marley:
(http://muppet.wikia.com/images/2/2f/Character.storytellerdog.jpg)

(http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5067/819/320/DogusErectus.jpg)  (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5067/819/320/Marley3.jpg)