Very cute. People are talking metaphors, so it could also be an extended metaphor for sanitation and disease. If a stingy government doesn't furnish its town with basic amenities, vermin come, disease comes, and children are usually the first to die, whether by rat bites or from the plagues that rats carried. But really, the chief message is obvious: you owe someone, pay up.
When I was a child watching this I was pretty miffed at the ending, of course I was by then used to stories that had all its loose ends tied up and to me this felt like a story that didn't so I keep making up my own endings to whether or not the child rescues his friends or the children meet a unhappy fate. Actually it was pretty enjoyable so I didn't mind it so much when I would watch the same episode again
Actually, most historians believe that the Pied Piper is a myth based off of the Fourth Crusade or the Children's Crusade. A boy in Europe thought that children would be more successful than Knights in converting the Middle East to Christianity, so he led his own army of children towards Jeruselam. Most of them died along the way.
@Francesc2000 There are versions where the portal opens up to the other side of the mountain, where slavers being employed by the Piper are waiting. Other versions say that he was a saint who took them directly to heaven, as it was not their fault that their parents were selfish, but God still wanted to teach them a lesson. I think this version is implying that the Piper simply takes them to a land of plenty either in the mountain, or in another place. Either way, he steals them from the village
@fredrbp1 no way, the piper is more corrupt. think, a man comes in and lures away children (sounds pedophile-ish) and apparantly koppelberg is slang for "children's heads" AND there can be no good reason why someone would kidnap a town's children just because they didn't get a paycheck. Kidnapping has a more sinister purpose
@melikeclassicalmusic All of these reasons have merit, which makes the story so much fun to disseminate, but if he was some kind of fae, his purpose might not have been evil towards the children. Faeries do great deeds for people but punish them severely when slighted. He could have been acting out of a sense of faery justice rather than human justice.
@fredrbp1 doubtful. what he did, he did out of revenge. One of the theories behind how the story came into existance was that it was a metaphor for the plague (which followed the rats) wiping out virtually every child in many cities.
been looking for this on dvd for years and on video before that,saw it on tv most christmases in the early 80s then i recorded on video christmas 88 (still got it) there was another cosgrove/hall something like "fool on the hill and the flying ship"
I did not know that,but I just checked wikipedia and their theory is the same as the one I saw on discovery,very scary stuff and I really think that is what really happend back then.
Actually, it's not. A great deal of the information on there is monitored and more importantly, you yourself would be hard pressed to see an extravagant deviated matter on there last longer then a day.
actually it derives from a story in medieval europe concerning the amount of jews that where spreading across western europe,doing what jews do best,taking everything by whiley ways.and in those days many european countries made pogroms against the jews and burned them at the stake or threw them out of their countries.which we should be doing today!
Erm, he promised the children a trip to a wondrous land (inside a mountain as you would expect)...But really he took them to another dimension where they were probably sold as child slaves to compensate for the money the council didn't pay him. As for the disabled boy left behind... discrimination! :D
Awesome animation though! The rats were exceedingly cute.
I don't know if anyone got it. But the Men were the Government and the Pied Piper are the Candidates of the CFR (Council Of Foreign Relations). All of our immediate concerns of today...Med. Security,all our problems. The Fairy Tale is of today.
@Naej27 Exactly what I've been thinking! You can relate it to governments of today. The stealing of children is a metaphor for revenge against the governemnt for not keeping its promise. Scary.
ok the particular show i'm looking for had an episode where a civilization was a dream of a human and they had to keep him from waking up so they could continue to exist. Anything? At the end the man started to dream about birds and they all turned in to birds.
Satan ftw
TheTaroTalkTime 5 months ago
Very cute. People are talking metaphors, so it could also be an extended metaphor for sanitation and disease. If a stingy government doesn't furnish its town with basic amenities, vermin come, disease comes, and children are usually the first to die, whether by rat bites or from the plagues that rats carried. But really, the chief message is obvious: you owe someone, pay up.
AlienAbandoned 6 months ago
The end with the lame child made me cry.
JackandSally4ever 7 months ago
@JackandSally4ever but he got off easy! The others all probably died
1Pantikian 1 month ago
Didn't a single one of the thousands of villagers think to simply stuff a sock in the end of the pipe?
daveo1801 9 months ago
he who shall teach the child to doubt the rotting shall neer get out. irish schools for irish childrten
dcconsi 9 months ago
I have to admit, the end of this story was rather troubling for me when I first read it when I was 10 years old and still is.
ghfdfhfdndxhcg 9 months ago
When I was a child watching this I was pretty miffed at the ending, of course I was by then used to stories that had all its loose ends tied up and to me this felt like a story that didn't so I keep making up my own endings to whether or not the child rescues his friends or the children meet a unhappy fate. Actually it was pretty enjoyable so I didn't mind it so much when I would watch the same episode again
sillygrl23 1 year ago
I see this as... Punishing the corrupt (Adults), and saving the innocence of children from being tainted...
TheMightyKilokahn 1 year ago
This is nice. But watch "Krysař" by Jiří Barta. Same story, same tecnique, much better!
LordoftheTrapdoors 1 year ago
Actually, most historians believe that the Pied Piper is a myth based off of the Fourth Crusade or the Children's Crusade. A boy in Europe thought that children would be more successful than Knights in converting the Middle East to Christianity, so he led his own army of children towards Jeruselam. Most of them died along the way.
myforbidden 1 year ago
But he doesn't kill the children, right? Don't they live in the cave and are mentioned at the end when he says something about a "weird tribe"?
Francesc2000 1 year ago
@Francesc2000 There are versions where the portal opens up to the other side of the mountain, where slavers being employed by the Piper are waiting. Other versions say that he was a saint who took them directly to heaven, as it was not their fault that their parents were selfish, but God still wanted to teach them a lesson. I think this version is implying that the Piper simply takes them to a land of plenty either in the mountain, or in another place. Either way, he steals them from the village
myforbidden 1 year ago
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sillygrl23 1 year ago
@myforbidden Wow, if this was a story with the second version as a ending I would feel really bad for the crippled boy then... :(
He deserved to be in Heaven with the rest of them.
sillygrl23 1 year ago
He MURDERED the kids. sorry but its life.
SuperVh1 1 year ago
HE KILLED THE KIDS. SOEEY BUT WE ALL KNOW THE LAME BOY GOT LUCKY
SuperVh1 1 year ago
Anyone know where I can buy this version?
LadyFlameSniper 1 year ago
I could never figure out whether to feel sorry for the crippled boy for getting left behind or to consider him lucky for that same reason.
Cradz18 1 year ago
When in the poem says "however he, (the Pied Piper,) turned from south to west." we see him facing south towards the Weser river and he turns east.
joshgill12345 1 year ago 18
@joshgill12345 0:43 "And there he blew 3 notes"
He then plays 5 notes
1Pantikian 1 month ago
When in the poem says "however he, (the Pied Piper,) turned from south to west." we see him facing south towards the Weser river and he turns east.
joshgill12345 1 year ago 2
this vid is a classic. the story is well, evil. = (
TeddyRuxpinMomma 1 year ago
omg n'aww cant believe i actually sprung a tear at the very last moment when the kid was given a flower D:
1994PandaBeth 1 year ago
was the piper's music only used for this special or is it known by another name?
CarolinePar 1 year ago
anyone notice the piper's got pointed ears?
Kumula 2 years ago
@Kumula Lol, the children got abducted by a crazy vulcan.
TheSerialTypest 1 year ago
Anyone considered the piper is saving the children from the corrupt town of Hamelin?
fredrbp1 2 years ago 11
That's the whole idea. To free the children of the pre-established corrupted world they live in.
Francesc2000 2 years ago
@fredrbp1 no way, the piper is more corrupt. think, a man comes in and lures away children (sounds pedophile-ish) and apparantly koppelberg is slang for "children's heads" AND there can be no good reason why someone would kidnap a town's children just because they didn't get a paycheck. Kidnapping has a more sinister purpose
melikeclassicalmusic 1 year ago
@melikeclassicalmusic All of these reasons have merit, which makes the story so much fun to disseminate, but if he was some kind of fae, his purpose might not have been evil towards the children. Faeries do great deeds for people but punish them severely when slighted. He could have been acting out of a sense of faery justice rather than human justice.
AlienAbandoned 6 months ago
@fredrbp1 Yeap!!!
biftedes 1 year ago
@fredrbp1 Yea But Wen he Takes Then He Does All Sorts of Stuff To Them Then Kill Them !
nakayla8 5 months ago
@fredrbp1 doubtful. what he did, he did out of revenge. One of the theories behind how the story came into existance was that it was a metaphor for the plague (which followed the rats) wiping out virtually every child in many cities.
fretlessbass26 3 months ago
This does looks scary... But maybe the cave was either heaven or hell... This is supposed to be real
mariojose23 2 years ago
Excellent production truly captivating. Thanks so much for this.
Flughafenkaiser 2 years ago
my god i love the animation O.o
hopevol2 2 years ago
that dumb mayor, He should've of paied the piper.
StefanoFan27 2 years ago 3
I thought I was the only one scared of claymation and stop-motion puppets. This guy was always creepy to me especially when I watched it as a kid.
gregtestagent 2 years ago
the pied piper looks so evil. scary
Kyotta84 3 years ago 3
when you make a promise you should keep it!
KingOystar 3 years ago 3
been looking for this on dvd for years and on video before that,saw it on tv most christmases in the early 80s then i recorded on video christmas 88 (still got it) there was another cosgrove/hall something like "fool on the hill and the flying ship"
garymixer 3 years ago
p.s this video is scary as fuck, as are most that are animated in this fashion.
AbsoluteShambles 3 years ago 3
Yes! I really agree with you on that,this version really is very scary and even though I am no longer a child,this still sends chills down my spine.
The animation is totally AWESOME and I wish they would still make films this way!
Heartborne7thSeeker 3 years ago 3
this happened on the 26th june, my birthday.
AbsoluteShambles 3 years ago
Some time ago I saw a program on the Discovery
channel about myth's and legends and there is
quite a lot of historians who claim that this
story really did happen in Hamelin in real life,
only there the children was not taken into a mountain but was taken deep into the woods and
killed by the Piper and his followers.
Heartborne7thSeeker 3 years ago
That theory is mentioned in the wikipedia article.
dgontar 3 years ago
I did not know that,but I just checked wikipedia and their theory is the same as the one I saw on discovery,very scary stuff and I really think that is what really happend back then.
Thanks for telling about wikipedia!
Heartborne7thSeeker 3 years ago 2
wilkpedia is not the god given truth!it is written up by anyone who decides to put his twopence worth in! in other words it's bullshit.
wizardspocket 3 years ago
Actually, it's not. A great deal of the information on there is monitored and more importantly, you yourself would be hard pressed to see an extravagant deviated matter on there last longer then a day.
Toughnuffet 2 years ago
@wizardspocket Actually, the same could be said about your comment, so by your theory your comment is de-ledgitimized
melikeclassicalmusic 1 year ago
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actually it derives from a story in medieval europe concerning the amount of jews that where spreading across western europe,doing what jews do best,taking everything by whiley ways.and in those days many european countries made pogroms against the jews and burned them at the stake or threw them out of their countries.which we should be doing today!
wizardspocket 3 years ago
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@wizardspocket
lol you mad? ;)
sillygrl23 1 year ago
Erm, he promised the children a trip to a wondrous land (inside a mountain as you would expect)...But really he took them to another dimension where they were probably sold as child slaves to compensate for the money the council didn't pay him. As for the disabled boy left behind... discrimination! :D
Awesome animation though! The rats were exceedingly cute.
PeanutScum 3 years ago
i dont get the end bit after the children were kidnapped .
some one explain please?
monkeyboytim1 3 years ago
omg i just realised he was a pedo!
Xxfancythat79xX 4 years ago
completely apart from the mind-boggling animation and design of the characters, i absolutely adore the song they use for this.
mrnack 4 years ago 3
I don't know if anyone got it. But the Men were the Government and the Pied Piper are the Candidates of the CFR (Council Of Foreign Relations). All of our immediate concerns of today...Med. Security,all our problems. The Fairy Tale is of today.
Naej27 4 years ago
@Naej27 Exactly what I've been thinking! You can relate it to governments of today. The stealing of children is a metaphor for revenge against the governemnt for not keeping its promise. Scary.
8Crybaby3 1 year ago
did anyone read after hamelin its was a good book with a different ending
neobattle2 4 years ago
'After Hamelin'... is that the one where the girl lost her hearing on the night the Piper took the children?
Sabatuar 3 years ago
yes
CarolinePar 2 years ago
I loved this so much as a kid!!
Does anyone remember this from a Thames Video Collection VHS with 'The Reluctant Dragon' by Kenneth Grahame?
marylandpolly 4 years ago
Forget that, I've just found both on DVD at Amazon!
marylandpolly 4 years ago
I had this on video when i was a kid but it was on betamax lol
Xxfancythat79xX 4 years ago
I recall one LAFA story: "Bill and Bunny". Could somebody try and upload it to YT when they get the chance?
Ian16545 4 years ago
Someone please tell me how to get a hold of a copy of the "Long Ago and Far Away" series. I would do anything to to have my own copy.
jalong21 4 years ago
ok the particular show i'm looking for had an episode where a civilization was a dream of a human and they had to keep him from waking up so they could continue to exist. Anything? At the end the man started to dream about birds and they all turned in to birds.
carldlr 4 years ago
It was also Long Ago and Faraway. The name of the story was called "Rarg."
Nightcrawler21 4 years ago
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! You kick ass!!
carldlr 4 years ago
Do you happen to know the other pbs show that was on the some time as Long ago and far way? It was kind of the same but animated.
carldlr 4 years ago
That ending was so sweet, I wasn't expecting it.
Thanks so much for posting this! I miss this show!
SirThinks2Much 4 years ago
These nine minutes of film terrified me more than any other film I've ever seen in my entire life, and I went to film school.
bdl218 4 years ago
I know. I don't care what anybody says. This is one of the scariest and saddest stories ever told.
wheresolive 4 years ago 2