Emperor's Nightingale, The

Jaromir Sobota, Helena Patockova. Narrated by Boris Karloff.

Czechoslovakian 71 mins Color 1949

Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of an Emperor who loved the Nightingale's song so much he bought an artificial songbird, and broke the real songbird's heart. Mixes live-action with stop-motion puppet animation. English dubbed. Dir. Jir? Trnka, Milos Makovec