- Title: VM-1382D
- Summary: TALES OF THE SNOW MAIDEN: STOP-MOTION ANIMATION
- Description:00:45:50 - MS GROUP LITTLE CHILDREN FROLICKING IN SNOW, SLIDING DOWN HILLS ON SLEDS IN FRONT SMALL LOG CABIN HOME IN WOODS. ZOOM IN WINDOW COTTAGE. ELDERLY MAN AND WOMAN IN COZY COTTAGE, SHE SEATED AT TABLE PEERING PUT WINDOW AT CHILDREN PLAYING OUTSIDE. HAVING NO CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN THE TWO PUT ON THEIR WINTER COATS, GO OUTSIDE BUILD SNOW MAN IN SHAPE OF LITTLE GIRL, THEY WISHED WERE THEIR OWN. TINY TEDDY BEAR AND BUNNY WATCH FROM WOODS. 00:47:49 - MS AS ELDERLY COUPLE GO BACK INTO COTTAGE, THE TWO ANIMALS WATCH AS A MYSTERIOUS SWIRLING LIGHT APPEARS AND TRANSFORMS INTO FATHER FROST (LOOKS LIKE SANTA WITH LONG WHITE BEARD, MAST IN HAND). AFTER CONVERSING WITH THE TWO ANIMALS, FATHER FROST TAKES DEEP BREATH, BLOWS AT THE SNOW GIRL, TURNS IT INTO A HUMAN BEING (THE SNOW MAIDEN ?) . A CUTE LITTLE GIRL. THE TWO ANIMALS ACCOMPANY HER TO THE HOUSE WHERE SHE IS ACCEPTED AS THE ELDERLY COUPLES OWN. 00:48:39 - VARIOUS SHOTS THE LITTLE GIRL DOING HOUDE CHORES FOR THE ELDERLY COUPLE AS ADOPTED FATHER PLAYS FLUTE. ELDERLY FATHER TELLS SNOW MAIDEN TO GO OUT AND FETCH WATER FROM WELL. WHILE OUTSIDE SHE IS CONFRONTED WITH BOYS AND GIRLS PLAYING IN THE SNOW. THEY ASK HER TO PLAY, SHE DOES. 00:50:47 - CU VIEW LITTLE COTTAGE AS SPRING BEGINS TO MELT THE SNOW. FLOCK OF GEESE FILL SKY. THE SNOW MAIDEN WATCHES FLOWERS SPRING FROM GROUND, AS HER ANIMAL FRIENDS WATCH HER. AS TIME PASSES THE SNOW MAIDEN BEGINS TO YEARN FOR HER HUMAN FRIENDS. THEY COME TO COTTAGE TO INVITE HER TO NIGHT TIME CAMPFIRE DANCE IN WOODS. ELDERLY "MOM" GIVES HER PERMISSION. 00:52:29 - LITTLE SNOW MAIDEN ARRIVES AT MOONLIT CAMP FIRE, WATCHES AS BOYS AND GIRLS DRESSED IN TRADITIONAL NATIVE COSTUMES BEGIN FOLK DANCING. NS VARIOUS VIEWS VARIETY FOLK DANCES, POLKAS IN PROGRESS. LITTLE FLUTE PLAYER SITS AGAINST TREE, PROVIDES MUSIC. THEY SPOT SNOW MAIDEN ON HILL, INVITE HER TO JOIN THEM. SHE DOES, JOINS THEM IN DANCE. THE DANCE SUDDENLY STOPS, AND ONE AFTER THE OTHER RUNS TOWARDS, JUMPS OVER CAMP FIRE FLAME IN TRADITIONAL GAME. THEY ALL CALL FOR THE SNOW MAIDEN TO FOLLOW. 00:53:54 - THE SNOW MAIDEN HESITATES AS HER ANIMAL FRIENDS SHOW UP, IMPLORE HER NOT TO JUMP AS SHE IS PRODDED ON BY HER NEW FRIENDS TO DO SO. DETERMINED TO BE PART OF THE HUMAN EVENT, THE SNOW MAIDEN RUNS AND JUMPS, WHEN OVER THE FLAMES THE SNOW MAIDEN VAPORIZED INTO A CLOUD, WHICH BEGINS TO DRIFT INTO THE SKY. THE HUMAN GROUP AND THE ANIMALS WATCH IN ASTONISHMENT, THEN ALL WAVE HER GOODBYE, AS THE CLOUD TURNS INTO RAIN, THEN DISAPPEARS. 00:54:59 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1952
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1382D