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Tales of the Night
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Wikipedia article
'Tales of the Night' (French: ') is a 1992 French silhouette animation television special written and directed by Michel Ocelot. It aired on Canal+ in France, ZDF in Germany and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. It is a trilogy of three further fairy tales in much the same format as 'Cin si'.
Plot
A boy, a girl and an old technician get together in an abandoned cinema to invent stories, the boy and the girl play after then made costumes. The three stories are "" ("The Pretty Girl and the Sorcerer"), "" ("The Dancing Shepherdess") and "" ("The Prince of Jewels"). Unlike 'La Princesse insensible' and 'Cin si', 'Tales of the Night' is on 35 mm film.
Release
"Le Prince des joyaux" was also shown in French cinemas in 1994 (and later released on VHS) as part of the Folimage-organised package film 'Le Petit Cirque et autres contes'. All three individual segments (though still lacking the original opening, ending and bridging segments) were made available on DVD-Video with the release of 'Les Trsors cachs de Michel Ocelot' in 2008.
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