"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 about screaming out of boredom. Had they trimmed the film a bit, it would have worked better. It also would have worked better with an infusion of fun...which is sorely lacks.
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 about screaming out of boredom. Had they trimmed the film a bit, it would have worked better. It also would have worked better with an infusion of fun...which is sorely lacks.