Pied Piper Of Hamelin-Feats Of The Piper

The Pied Piper Of Hamelin was originally created as a Sunday night TV special in 1957, by the Dumont Television Network, in an attempt to compete with early network TV broadcasts of MGM's The Wizard Of Oz. It was not originally intended to be a theatrical release. In fact, after its original TV dates (the first being November 26, 1957), it vanished into obscurity for many years. The music here is by Edvard Grieg the great Norwegian composer, from "Anitra's Dance" (Peer Gynt Suite #2)

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[TheSlathbog]

zipmeme[dot]com/meme/4446/ Anyone get this reference?

[AlienAbandoned]

Respond to this video... Not to mention a short Disney animation from waaaay back when.

[AlienAbandoned]

@Jenylein There are 5 at least. This one, an abysmal 70's movie with folk singer Donovan, an 80's creepy-ass stop motion from Czechoslovakia that I gave up on because it disturbed me, a really cute 80's stop motion based on Robert Browning's poem, and a Shelly Duval's Faery Tale Theatre version with Monty Python Eric Idle. Happy watching. :)

[swimmerlover42]

just press 3 to get to the song without lisening to the bickering

[parodycreator25]

i'm a flutist and the drama club director choosed me to be the pied piper and i'm playing the peer gynt pieces too.

i'm playing anitra's dance, morning mood, and in the hall of the mountain king. wish me luck world.

[MrUnidyne]

It's in public domain and there have been a number of discount DVD releases.

[MrUnidyne]

I read it was produced for DuMont to start their color service, which never materialized. NBC bought the rights and ran it as a family special.

[Jenylein]

I'm from hameln, i nevver knew that there is a movie about it!

[evjefwil]

The Dumont Network was out of business by 1957. This was an NBC special.

[lilmissnugget]

i love this movie! i have it on VHS but want to put it DVD. anyone know how??