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A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, a nightingale's song restores his health and teaches him to revolt against his glittering but...
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""The Emperor's Nightingale" is a Czechoslovakian film by Jirí Trnka and Milos Makovec. Apparently, some folks thought it merited a translation to English so that it could be sold abroad...and so they had Boris Karloff narrate the film and the characters themselves don't talk. The film is a stop-motion picture and I marvel at both how long it took to make this as well as the quality. It is a nice looking film AND Karloff's narration is lovely. That being said, it's also very, very slow and is the sort of film that would make even the most well behaved child run ab..."
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A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, a nightingale's song restores his health and teaches him to revolt against his glittering but...