The Tale of the Fox (1930)
- Original title
- Le Roman de Renard
- Directed by
- Ladislas Starevich
- Genre
- fairy tale, satire, cinematic fairy tale
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 05m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 62 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This stop-motion animated film tells the story of Renard, a clever fox who uses trickery in a series of adventures. It is based on medieval European fables about the fox.
whimsicalsatiricalplayfulclassicstorybook-likelivelyhistoricallighthearted
What happens
The Tale of the Fox (French: Le Roman de Renard; Dutch: Van den vos Reynaerde; German: Reineke Fuchs) was stop-motion animation pioneer Ladislas Starevich's first fully animated feature film. The film is based on the tales of Renard the Fox. Although the animation was finished in Paris after an 18-month period (1929–1930), there were major problems with adding a soundtrack to the film. Finally, funding was given for a German soundtrack by the UFA—Goethe had written a classic version of the Renard legend—and this version had its premiere in Berlin in April 1937. Released eight months before Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it is the world's eighth-ever animated feature film (and the third surviving animated film, as well as the second to use puppet animation, following The New Gulliver from the USSR). The film was released in France with a French language soundtrack in 1941; this is the version which is currently available on DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Fétiche (1933)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.