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Mary and Gretel, Part 2

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Channel: Library of Congress · 2009 · Film & Animation

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SUMMARY
From Origin of American animation 1900-1921 notes: Alice in Wonderland meets the Garden of Eden in this surreal fable of a drunk rabbit, bowling dwarfs, and the two bewildered girls of the title.

From J. McIntire, Silent animated films at the Library of Congress: Mary & Gretel explore the forest and come across Rip Van Winkle, drunken woodsmen, and a bunny. They pluck magic flowers and a fairy appears and sends them home. Incomplete.

Alice in Wonderland meets the Garden of Eden in this surreal fable of a drunken rabbit, bowling dwarfs, and the two bewildered girls of the title. The short-lived "Motoy" stop-motion puppet series was animated by Howard S. Moss in 1917.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Peter Pan Film Corp., [1916].

NOTES
Copyright: no reg.

Digital file includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli.

SUBJECTS
Fairy tales--Drama.
Girls--Drama.
Voyages and travels--Drama.
Imaginary places--Drama.
Forests and forestry--Drama.
Rabbits--Drama.
Alcoholics--Drama.
Fairies--Drama.
Dwarfs--Drama.
Van Winkle, Rip (Fictitious character)--Drama.
Flowers--Folklore--Drama.
Fantasy--Animation--Short.
Puppet--Short.

DIGITAL ID
animp 4077s1 4077s2 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/animp.4077

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