 Together they wrote the screenplays of a number of animated movies, starting with the short "The Little Soldier" ("Le Petit Soldat", 1947).They worked together until his death in 1977, when he was finishing "The King and the Mocking Bird" ("Le Roi et l'Oiseau"), a second version of which was released in 1980.Prévert adapted several Hans Christian Andersen tales into animated or mixed live-action/animated movies, often in versions loosely connected to the original.