Aesop's Fables I
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Abstract
This film of about twelve minutes starts with a song: "Long ago in ancient Greece/stories didn't grow on trees./Good ol' Aesop was most able/when he'd fabricate a fable./Look and listen and you'll see/Aesop's Fables one-two-three." The visual technique involves camera sweeps and zooms on still watercolors (?). Many of the character-animals in the three fables are given classical proper names. The stories are told rather expansively. In LM, Miklos the mouse runs across Oedipus the lion. The morals include "When you step on somebody's nose, apologize right away and keep talking" and "When somebody says he wants to be friends, believe him." The moral for FC, which uses bleu cheese, warns that "you're better off if you keep your mouth shut." In GA, Aristotle the ant, who uses a pulley to move a peach-pit, has Zeus the grasshopper dance now for one crumb.