Who is the author of the fairy tale that the 1948 movie by the Archers is based on?
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Powell and Pressburger The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell (1905–1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)—together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company—made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s. —24 films between 1939 and 1972—were mainly derived from original stories by Pressburger with the script written by both Pressburger & Powell. Powell did most of the directing while Pressburger did most of the work of the producer and also assisted with the editing, especially the way the music was used. Unusually, the pair shared a writer-director-producer credit for most of their films. The best known of these are "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), "A Canterbury Tale" (1944), "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946), "Black Narcissus" (1947), "The Red Shoes" (1948), and "The Tales of Hoffmann" (1951).
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The Red Shoes (1948 film) The Red Shoes is a 1948 British drama film written, directed and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as The Archers. The film is about a ballerina who joins an established ballet company and becomes the lead dancer in a new ballet called "The Red Shoes", itself based on the fairy tale "The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen.
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Fairy Tales (Jones book) Fairy Tales is a 1981 book of children's stories written by Monty Python's Terry Jones and illustrated by Michael Foreman with both ink drawings and watercolor paintings.
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Childe Rowland "Childe Rowland" is a fairy tale, the most popular version written by Joseph Jacobs in his "English Fairy Tales", published in 1890. It was based on a Scottish ballad, which is why the text alternates between prose and rhyming stanzas. Joseph Jacobs called the King of Elfland's palace "the Dark Tower" in his version, an addition he made that was not part of the original ballad. This harks to Shakespeare's "King Lear" and Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," but neither of those references have any relation to the fairy tale.
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Jack the Giant Killer "Jack the Giant Killer" is an English fairy tale and legend about a plucky (presumably) young adult who slays a number of giants during King Arthur's reign. The tale is characterised by violence, gore and blood-letting. Giants are prominent in Cornish folklore, Breton mythology and Welsh Bardic lore. Some parallels to elements and incidents in Norse mythology have been detected in the tale, and the trappings of Jack's last adventure with the Giant Galigantus suggest parallels with French and Breton fairy tales such as Bluebeard. Jack's belt is similar to the belt in "The Valiant Little Tailor", and his magical sword, shoes, cap, and cloak are similar to those owned by Tom Thumb or those found in Welsh and Norse mythology.
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Jackal or Tiger? Jackal or Tiger? is an Indian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Olive Fairy Book".
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Deerskin (novel) Deerskin is a dark fantasy novel by Robin McKinley, first published in 1993. It is based on an old French fairy tale by Charles Perrault called "Peau d'âne" (English translation: "Donkeyskin"). It was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.
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Thomas the Rhymer Thomas the Rhymer (fl. c. 1220 – 1298), also known as Thomas of Erceldoune, Thomas of Learmont or True Thomas, was a 13th-century Scottish laird and reputed prophet from Earlston (then called "Erceldoune") in the Borders. In literature he appears as the protagonist in the tale about Thomas the Rhymer, who was carried off by the "Queen of Elfland" and returned having gained the gift of prophecy, as well as the inability to tell a lie. The tale survives in a medieval verse romance in five manuscripts, as well as in the popular ballad "Thomas the Rhymer" (Child Ballad number 37). The original romance ca. 1400 was probably condensed into ballad form ca. 1700, though there are dissenting views on this.
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Jesper Who Herded the Hares Jesper Who Herded the Hares is a Scandinavian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Violet Fairy Book".
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Ye Xian "Ye Xian" (; ) is a Chinese fairy tale that is similar to the European Cinderella story, the Malay-Indonesian Bawang Putih Bawang Merah tale, the Vietnamese Tấm Cám story, and stories from other ethnic groups including the Tibetans and the Zhuangs. It is one of the oldest known variants of "Cinderella", first published in the Tang dynasty compilation "Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang" written around 850 by Duan Chengshi.
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Nancy McKenzie Nancy Affleck McKenzie (February 19, 1948) is an American author of historical fiction. Her primary focus is Arthurian legend.
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Cannetella Cannetella is an Italian literary fairy tale told by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the "Pentamerone". Andrew Lang included it in "The Grey Fairy Book", as collected by Hermann Kletke.
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What the Rose did to the Cypress What the Rose did to the Cypress is a Persian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Brown Fairy Book" (1904), with the note "Translated from two Persian MSS. in the possession of the British Museum and the India Office, and adapted, with some reservations, by Annette S. Beveridge."
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The Red Shoes (fairy tale) "The Red Shoes" (Danish: "De røde sko") is a fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen first published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen 7 April 1845 in "New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Third Collection. 1845." ("Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Tredie Samling. 1845."). Other tales in the volume include "The Elf Mound" ("Elverhøi"), "The Jumpers" ("Springfyrene"), "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep" ("Hyrdinden og Skorstensfejeren"), and "Holger Danske" ("Holger Danske").
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The Blue Mountains (fairy tale) The Blue Mountains is a fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Yellow Fairy Book" (1894), but provided no bibliographical information and its origin remains obscure.
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The Prince of Thieves The Prince of Thieves is a 1948 film nominally inspired by Alexandre Dumas' 1872 novel "Le Prince des voleurs". Produced by Sam Katzman for Columbia Pictures and starring Jon Hall as Robin Hood with stuntwork by Jock Mahoney, the film was shot in the Cinecolor process that features an inability to reproduce the colour green. Sequences were shot reusing several of the sets of Columbia's "The Bandit of Sherwood Forest" and at Corriganville. Patricia Morison and Adele Jergens co-star.
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Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel "The Vicar of Wakefield" (1766), his pastoral poem "The Deserted Village" (1770), and his plays "The Good-Natur'd Man" (1768) and "She Stoops to Conquer" (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale "The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes" (1765).
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The Husband Who Was to Mind the House The Husband Who Was to Mind the House is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their "Norske Folkeeventyr".
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The Woman Who Had No Shadow "The Woman Who Had No Shadow" is a Scandinavian fairy tale, included by Sven Grundtvig in "Gamle danske Minder i Folkemunde" and Ella Ohlson in "Sagor från Ångermanland".
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The Hedley Kow "The Hedley Kow" is an English fairy tale, particular to the village of Hedley on the Hill in Northumbria. It was collected by Joseph Jacobs in "More English Fairy Tales" in 1894.
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Oliver Postgate Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. "Pingwings", "Pogles' Wood", "Noggin the Nog", "Ivor the Engine", "Clangers" and "Bagpuss", were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 BBC poll "Bagpuss" was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time.
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Aylmer Hall Aylmer Hall is the pen name of Norah Eleanor Lyle Cummins (born 24 April 1914). She is the author of adventure stories for children written in the 1950s and 1960s. Her book "The Tyrant King - A London Adventure" was published by London Transport in 1967 with illustrations by Peter Roberson. The book inspired the film of the same name, directed by Mike Hodges.