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[DOG BARKS]
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[BELL RINGING]
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MAN: Good morning, schoolmaster.
WOMAN: Good morning, schoolmaster.
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See the kite?
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[CHILDREN CHATTERING]
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BOY:
Tell us a story!
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GIRL:
Wait for me, Hans! Please wait.
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Well, hurry up. Faster!
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Thank you.
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Next time, don't be late, heh.
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Now, yesterday, Matilda was the wicked
mermaid, the princess of the frozen sea.
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- Remember that?
KIDS: Yes.
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Today, as I promised,
we, uh, always keep our promises, don't we?
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KIDS:
Yes!
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- Today, as I promised, she will be the, uh...
KIDS: Queen of China!
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Oh! Did anybody remember to bring
a dress for the queen of China?
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KIDS:
You said you would!
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All right.
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Please, ladies and gentlemen.
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If we can't have a queen,
then we'll have a king.
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It's very simple. We just take
the crown and put it over on the side.
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He was a very jaunty little king,
wore his crown like that. Now, we'll just...
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Ah, ah, ah. No peeping.
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BOY:
Aww.
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HANS:
Aww!
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There we are.
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Long live the king!
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That's not a king.
It's only a queen with a mustache.
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[ALL LAUGH]
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A lot of kings
are only a queen with a mustache.
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- We all believe it's a king, don't we?
KIDS: Yes!
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Since we have no clothes for the king...
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...this is a story about a king
who had no clothes...
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[ALL LAUGH]
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And about a little boy
who only believed what he saw.
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KIDS:
That's you!
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Well, one day, two swindlers
came to see the king...
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...to sell him what they said
was a magic suit of clothes.
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The king was very fond of new
clothes, so he said, "Let me see it."
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But there wasn't any suit of clothes. The
swindlers held up their hands like this...
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...and said,
"Your Majesty, this is a magic suit.
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You, being very wise and intelligent,
can see how beautiful it is...
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...but to a fool, it is absolutely invisible."
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Well, he said, "I see."
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Not wanting to appear a fool, he added:
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Yes, indeed. I see it perfectly.
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It's beautiful.
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Isn't it grand? isn't it fine?
Look at the cut, the style, the line!
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[SINGING] "The suit of clothes is altogether
But altogether, it's altogether
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The most remarkable suit of clothes
That I have ever seen
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These eyes of mine at once determine
The sleeves are velvet, the cape is ermine
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The hose are blue and
The doublet is a lovely shade of green"
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A lovely shade of green!
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"Somebody send for the queen"
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The queen came and she was told...
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...how all the wise people could see the:
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KIDS:
Magic suit!
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HANS:
That's right.
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Naturally, not wanting
to appear a fool, she said:
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"Oh, isn't it grand?
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Isn't it rich?
Look at the charm of every stitch!"
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"The suit of clothes is altogether it's altogether
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The most remarkable suit of clothes
That I have ever seen
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These eyes of mine at once determine
The sleeves are velvet, the cape is ermine
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The hose are blue and
The doublet is a lovely shade of green"
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A lovely shade of green!
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"Summon the court to convene"
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All the court came,
the ministers and ambassadors came.
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Not wanting to seem like fools,
they agreed with the:
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KIDS: King and queen.
- The king issued a proclamation.
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[CLEARS THROAT]
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The suit of clothes is altogether
But altogether, it's altogether
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The most remarkable suit of clothes
A tailor ever made
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Now quickly put it all together
With gloves of leather and hat and feather
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It's altogether the thing
To wear at Saturday's parade
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KIDS:
Saturday's parade!
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Leading the royal brigade
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[KIDS LAUGH]
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By this time, everybody had heard
about the king's new clothes...
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...that he would wear at the parade.
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The people lined the streets as
the artillery came by, the infantry came by...
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...and the cavalry came by and the fife
and drum corps and the royal guard...
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...and finally the king.
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Everybody cheered, "Hurray."
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[ALL CHEER]
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Because nobody wanted
to appear a fool.
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Nobody that is, except one little boy...
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...who, for some strange reason, hadn't
heard about the king's new magic suit...
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...and didn't know
what he was supposed to see.
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He took one look at the king...
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...turned a little pale and said:
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"Look at the king! Look at the king!"
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The king is in the altogether
But altogether, the altogether
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He's altogether as naked
As the day that he was born
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[ALL LAUGH]
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The king is in the altogether,
But altogether, the altogether
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It's altogether the very least
The king has ever worn
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Call the court physician
Call an intermission
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His majesty is wide open
To ridicule and scorn
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The king is in the altogether,
But altogether, the altogether
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He's altogether as naked
As the day that he was born
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And it's altogether too chilly a morn
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Ha.
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[ALL CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
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PETER:
Hans!
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GIRL:
Hurry, Peter.
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We're going to hear another story.
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Hans, the schoolmaster
went to the burgomaster and the--
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Oh, Peter, don't worry so much
on a beautiful day like this.
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[CHILDREN SPEAK INDISTINCTLY]
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They're coming here, the schoolmaster,
the burgomaster, the council. Look!
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HANS:
Good morning, burgomaster.
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Look, burgomaster.
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The books on the dirty ground!
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Here. The History of Denmark
used to tie the string of a dirty kite!
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The history of any country
can always stand a little fresh air.
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[SCHOOLMASTER SCOFFS]
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Did you hear about the history book
that took a vacation...
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...and came back a much better history?
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[CHILDREN LAUGH]
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You see? That's the stuff
he fills the children's heads with!
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Look at this.
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"Arithmetic. A two met a four one day.
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They liked each other immediately
and got married...
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...and all the other numbers
came to their wedding."
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- It's impossible!
- There are different ways of learning.
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A cobbler belongs in his shop,
and children belong in school.
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Tend to your shoes.
I'll tend to my school!
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To be sure.
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But is the world made up of nothing else
but shoes and schoolrooms, and...?
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[CHUCKLES]
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There's a story
of a piece of chalk and a blackboard.
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The piece of chalk had written
so many things on the blackboard...
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...that it believed
it knew all about everything. Heh.
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The blackboard was angry.
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She felt that without her to write upon,
nobody would know anything...
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...and she was the one
who really knew it all, heh.
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One day, quite by accident...
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...the schoolmaster broke the piece of chalk
and tossed it out of the window.
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It fell beside a pencil that the piece
of chalk had always admired.
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A pencil to a piece of chalk
is something very special.
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- And what do you suppose happened?
- What happened?
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[BURGOMASTER CLEARS THROAT]
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Have we all lost our senses?
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Are you going listen to him
with the children? What is this?
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That will be enough, Hans.
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Children, pick up your schoolbooks
and go back to school. Hurry.
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Follow the schoolmaster.
Not another word from anyone.
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BURGOMASTER:
Ahem, uh...
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I advise you, Hans, to stay in your shop
from now on. Come, gentlemen.
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[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
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Stop shaking your head at me
like an old woman, Peter.
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- I can feel it in the back of my neck.
- Hans, turn around. I've got to talk to you.
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Did you ever hear
the story of the old woman...
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...who shook her head at the family
so much that it fell off, right on the table?
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Hans, why do you keep
on making trouble for us?
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Trouble? There's no trouble
that a good story can't get us out of.
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Like the one just now about the piece
of chalk and the blackboard.
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I didn't know what I was going to say
until after I'd said it.
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In fact, I'd like to know
how the story ends myself.
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Please stay in the shop. Don't tell
the children stories all the time.
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I never saw such a worrier like you, Peter.
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You want to really worry
about something? Here's something.
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Two years ago, I took you
out of the orphanage...
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...and promised them I'd make you
into a good cobbler. Two whole years.
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Look at that shoe, glue all smeared
and nails in crooked.
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[CHUCKLES]
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Two years an apprentice,
and still the nails go in crooked.
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[SIGHS]
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I'm not that bad, am I? You're not going
to send me back to the orphanage?
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Ah-ha. A new worry appears in the sky.
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[CHUCKLES]
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Never mind, Peter. Let's go home.
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CHILDREN [SINGING]:
Two and two are four
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Four and four are eight
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Eight and eight are 16
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Sixteen and 16 are 32
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Two and two are four
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Four and four are eight
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Eight and eight are 16
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Sixteen and 16 are 32
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An inchworm. The first one of the year!
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Four and four are eight
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Eight and eight are 16
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Sixteen and 16 are 32
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[SINGING]
Inchworm
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Inchworm
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Measuring the marigolds
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You and your arithmetic
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You'll probably go far
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Inchworm
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Measuring the marigolds
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Seems to me
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You stop and see
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How beautiful they are
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Two and two are four
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Four and four are eight
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Eight and eight are 16
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Sixteen and 16 are 32
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Two and two...
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[BELL RINGING]
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Good morning, schoolmaster.
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Oh, Hans.
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Let me explain.
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Out of my way!
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I am talking sense,
and that is exactly what I want.
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Either Hans Christian Andersen
leaves this town or I do.
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Surely a little story
now and then, not during school hours.
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It is not just now and then, it is all the time.
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When they are late,
he gives them excuses.
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"The snow queen took me
to see the king of the mountain!"
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That is true.
I asked my Gerda what time it was.
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She said the minute and the hour hand
were not speaking to each other.
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They were both in love
with the second hand.
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They wouldn't meet till 12 o'clock,
and no one could tell the time until then.
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[CROWD MURMURING]
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- I like that.
- Like it?
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We pay our taxes for the school, not for
Hans to fill their heads with foolishness.
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[CLAMORS]
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But Hans's stories are good.
The children learn from them.
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They are not foolish stories.
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I would like to know now.
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I would like to pack up tonight.
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Tomorrow, you'll be looking
for a new cobbler or a new teacher.
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Gentlemen, uh...
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[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
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It is decided. The cobbler must leave.
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- But...
BURGOMASTER: Quiet!
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I'll tell Hans myself. It will not be pleasant,
but has to be done.
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Perhaps it's for the best.
Tell Hans to wait in the shop for me.
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I'll talk to him before supper.
Come, gentlemen.
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PETER:
Hello, Hans.
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Hello, Peter.
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- Was it nice by the river?
- Oh, just perfect.
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Did we have any customers today?
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- Not one.
HANS: Hmm.
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It just gets slower and slower.
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- Hans?
- Hmm.
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Don't you think we should go to a larger
city where shoes wear out faster?
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00:18:07,879 --> 00:18:12,966
And be stuck in the shop all day? Heh.
No, sir. I like business to be a little slow.
241
00:18:13,134 --> 00:18:15,761
There's time enough for everything here.
242
00:18:15,928 --> 00:18:19,931
That's what I mean, Hans. No shoes
wear out. No one ever leaves.
243
00:18:20,099 --> 00:18:24,478
Not one person in this village
has ever been to Copenhagen, have they?
244
00:18:24,645 --> 00:18:29,232
That's true, but why should they?
I never think about Copenhagen, do you?
245
00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:33,153
Do I? What do you suppose
Copenhagen is really like?
246
00:18:35,448 --> 00:18:41,286
It's a funny thing, now you mention it.
I used to think about Copenhagen a lot.
247
00:18:41,454 --> 00:18:45,290
I used to make up the most wonderful
stories about going there.
248
00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:49,169
I used to think about Copenhagen
a lot when I was your age.
249
00:18:49,337 --> 00:18:51,379
My husband says the shoes hurt.
250
00:18:51,547 --> 00:18:56,843
- They squeak and the left one doesn't fit.
- That's not too bad, Mrs. Berta.
251
00:18:57,011 --> 00:19:00,806
I sometimes think
shoes have a life of their own.
252
00:19:00,973 --> 00:19:03,934
The ones that squeak
don't like to leave the shop...
253
00:19:04,101 --> 00:19:07,646
...and the ones that hurt
don't like whoever's wearing them.
254
00:19:07,814 --> 00:19:12,234
Please, Hans, just fix the shoes.
I've got my own life to worry about.
255
00:19:12,401 --> 00:19:14,945
When Mr. Berta's feet hurt,
he drives the whole house crazy.
256
00:19:15,112 --> 00:19:16,112
[CHUCKLES]
257
00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:20,575
Hans, what kind of stories
did you make up about Copenhagen?
258
00:19:22,203 --> 00:19:23,745
Uh...
259
00:19:23,913 --> 00:19:28,375
I used to dream about having
the finest cobbler shop in Copenhagen.
260
00:19:28,543 --> 00:19:33,713
I wasn't just an ordinary cobbler.
I only saw people by appointment.
261
00:19:33,881 --> 00:19:37,509
First I looked at them
before I even looked at their shoes...
262
00:19:37,677 --> 00:19:39,845
...and if I didn't like them, no shoes.
263
00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:42,055
Do you know that people--?
264
00:19:42,223 --> 00:19:45,809
Where are you going?
Don't you want to hear the rest?
265
00:19:48,604 --> 00:19:51,815
- What's that?
- Your bag. It's all packed, Hans.
266
00:19:51,983 --> 00:19:55,443
- My bag?
- Go to Copenhagen right now.
267
00:19:55,611 --> 00:19:57,696
Are you crazy, Peter?
268
00:19:57,864 --> 00:20:01,575
That was a story I was telling.
Didn't you understand that?
269
00:20:01,742 --> 00:20:05,745
Of course I understood,
but part of it must be like you imagined...
270
00:20:05,913 --> 00:20:08,999
...and maybe even great carriages
with fine horses...
271
00:20:09,166 --> 00:20:11,585
...beautiful houses three stories high.
272
00:20:11,752 --> 00:20:16,756
Don't you want to see it for yourself? It's
not so far from here, your bag's packed.
273
00:20:16,924 --> 00:20:21,511
All you have to do is walk out of that door.
Quick! Before you change your mind.
274
00:20:22,430 --> 00:20:27,601
Before I change my mind? Who said
I was going? Just like that, this afternoon?
275
00:20:27,768 --> 00:20:28,810
[CHUCKLES]
276
00:20:28,978 --> 00:20:30,562
What's got into you, anyway?
277
00:20:30,730 --> 00:20:33,607
You forgot about Copenhagen
all these years.
278
00:20:33,774 --> 00:20:37,235
You may forget about it again
until you're too old to go.
279
00:20:37,403 --> 00:20:40,113
No, someday I'm really going
to Copenhagen.
280
00:20:40,281 --> 00:20:43,533
- That's the one thing I'm sure of.
- Who knows?
281
00:20:43,701 --> 00:20:48,163
Has anyone from this village gone
to Copenhagen before? Of course not.
282
00:20:48,331 --> 00:20:52,167
They keep putting it off.
Imagine, Hans, you'll be the first.
283
00:20:52,335 --> 00:20:55,879
What a to-do there'll be tomorrow.
They'll talk of nothing else for days.
284
00:20:56,047 --> 00:20:58,506
"Hans has gone to Copenhagen!"
285
00:21:01,427 --> 00:21:04,512
"Hans has gone to Copenhagen."
286
00:21:08,684 --> 00:21:10,769
Yes! Uh...
287
00:21:10,937 --> 00:21:12,646
What a sign it would make!
288
00:21:12,813 --> 00:21:15,941
"Hans Christian Andersen,
gone to Copenhagen"...
289
00:21:16,108 --> 00:21:19,361
...with little shoes pointing
the way out of town!
290
00:21:19,528 --> 00:21:25,700
I'll make the sign tonight. I see it exactly
as you do, the little shoes, everything!
291
00:21:25,868 --> 00:21:28,370
Goodbye, Hans. Aren't you excited?
292
00:21:28,537 --> 00:21:31,665
Excited? You mean
I really should go, Peter?
293
00:21:31,832 --> 00:21:34,376
Why not? It's only a few days away.
294
00:21:34,543 --> 00:21:38,630
You stay a little while and then come
back, but you've been to Copenhagen.
295
00:21:38,798 --> 00:21:41,132
Oh, but it's a big step, Peter.
296
00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:44,594
Still, what's to stop me? Heh.
297
00:21:45,638 --> 00:21:47,847
My goodness, I am getting excited!
298
00:21:48,015 --> 00:21:49,599
Hans!
299
00:21:49,767 --> 00:21:54,104
If anyone had told me this morning
that I'd decide to go to Copenhagen...
300
00:21:54,271 --> 00:21:56,523
- Start walking!
-Imagine, Peter.
301
00:21:56,691 --> 00:22:00,735
I've decided to go to Copenhagen,
just like I made it up in a story.
302
00:22:00,903 --> 00:22:04,030
- Goodbye, Hans.
- Goodbye, Peter.
303
00:22:04,198 --> 00:22:08,827
Goodbye, Peter, and take care of yourself.
I'll only be gone a few days.
304
00:22:08,995 --> 00:22:11,705
- Tell the children goodbye for me.
- I will.
305
00:22:11,872 --> 00:22:15,041
Imagine, Peter, Copenhagen!
306
00:22:15,209 --> 00:22:17,168
Goodbye, Peter.
307
00:22:46,115 --> 00:22:47,407
Hello.
308
00:22:47,575 --> 00:22:48,616
[DOG BARKS]
309
00:22:48,784 --> 00:22:50,160
[CHUCKLES]
310
00:22:50,327 --> 00:22:51,578
[GRUNTS]
311
00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:55,498
Oh, my goodness. My feet hurt. Unh!
312
00:22:55,666 --> 00:22:56,666
Huh.
313
00:22:58,044 --> 00:22:59,711
[SIGHS]
314
00:22:59,879 --> 00:23:03,673
I cannot understand
why these shoes hurt me so.
315
00:23:03,841 --> 00:23:08,720
I made them myself, heh. You're lucky.
You don't have to wear shoes.
316
00:23:08,888 --> 00:23:14,184
I can never understand why people
use that expression, "A dog's life." Heh.
317
00:23:14,351 --> 00:23:19,522
Every dog I ever knew
seemed to have a very nice life indeed, heh.
318
00:23:20,274 --> 00:23:23,818
You've no idea, and maybe
it's just as good you don't.
319
00:23:24,361 --> 00:23:28,698
Back in the village, if people
saw me talking to you like this...
320
00:23:28,866 --> 00:23:31,826
...do you know what would happen?
321
00:23:31,994 --> 00:23:36,039
Every head would shake for a week,
and yet how pleasant this is, huh?
322
00:23:37,416 --> 00:23:41,753
I can say anything I want to, and there's
no sound except the wag of your tail.
323
00:23:44,673 --> 00:23:47,675
And people do the strangest things too.
324
00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:51,179
Oh, yes, my friend.
Even me. Myself included.
325
00:23:51,347 --> 00:23:53,640
For instance, if you were to ask me...
326
00:23:53,808 --> 00:23:57,852
...what I was doing on the road
to Copenhagen, do you know something?
327
00:23:58,020 --> 00:23:59,729
I couldn't tell you.
328
00:23:59,897 --> 00:24:04,609
I was trying to figure it out a little
while ago, what Peter said, what I said.
329
00:24:04,777 --> 00:24:08,238
All of a sudden, I find myself
on the road to Copenhagen. Heh.
330
00:24:08,405 --> 00:24:11,950
Do you know something else, my friend?
331
00:24:12,118 --> 00:24:14,619
I'm a little bit frightened.
332
00:24:14,787 --> 00:24:17,956
Copenhagen is a very big place.
333
00:24:18,124 --> 00:24:21,876
Still, what can happen, huh?
334
00:24:22,044 --> 00:24:24,295
People are nice.
335
00:24:24,463 --> 00:24:29,425
That's the nice thing about the world,
my friend, people.
336
00:24:29,593 --> 00:24:32,846
So, what can happen?
337
00:24:33,931 --> 00:24:37,725
I'll walk through the gates of the city,
go up to someone and say:
338
00:24:37,893 --> 00:24:42,355
"How do you do?
I'm Hans Christian Andersen." Heh.
339
00:24:43,399 --> 00:24:49,571
I'll walk through the gates of the city, and
I'll say, "I'm Hans Christian Andersen."
340
00:24:50,197 --> 00:24:52,490
[SINGING]
I'm Hans Christian Andersen
341
00:24:52,658 --> 00:24:55,118
I've many a tale to tell
342
00:24:55,286 --> 00:24:59,038
And though I'm a cobbler
I'd say I tell them rather well
343
00:24:59,206 --> 00:25:03,042
I'll mend your shoes and I'll fix
Your boots when I have a moment free
344
00:25:03,210 --> 00:25:05,211
When I'm not otherwise occupied
345
00:25:05,379 --> 00:25:09,174
As a purple duck or a mountain side
Or a quarter after three
346
00:25:09,341 --> 00:25:13,094
I'm Hans Christian Andersen
That's me
347
00:25:13,596 --> 00:25:15,388
[WHISTLING]
348
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,561
I'm Hans Christian Andersen
And this is an April day
349
00:25:21,729 --> 00:25:25,481
It's full of the magic I need
To speed me on my way
350
00:25:25,649 --> 00:25:29,319
My pocketbook has an empty look
I limp on a lumpy shoe
351
00:25:29,486 --> 00:25:31,404
So I turn into a flying fish
352
00:25:31,572 --> 00:25:35,325
Or a millionaire with a rocking chair
And a dumpling in my stew
353
00:25:35,492 --> 00:25:37,619
I'm Hans Christian Andersen
354
00:25:37,786 --> 00:25:39,162
Andersen, that's who
355
00:25:39,330 --> 00:25:40,330
[WHISTLING]
356
00:25:40,497 --> 00:25:43,416
PETER:
Hans! Hans!
357
00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:51,758
Peter!
358
00:25:56,931 --> 00:25:59,432
Peter, what are you doing here?
359
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,685
What's this? You've got
the whole shop on wheels.
360
00:26:02,853 --> 00:26:04,812
Copenhagen sounded so wonderful,
Hans...
361
00:26:04,980 --> 00:26:05,980
[PETER SIGHS]
362
00:26:06,148 --> 00:26:09,359
...I got to thinking maybe
you wouldn't come back for a while.
363
00:26:09,526 --> 00:26:13,696
Maybe for a long while,
so I thought maybe you'd need the shop.
364
00:26:13,864 --> 00:26:18,534
Sometimes I think you put ideas
into my head that aren't even there.
365
00:26:18,702 --> 00:26:21,704
Me? Oh, no, Hans.
366
00:26:21,872 --> 00:26:25,500
I'm not at all sure I shouldn't
send you back right now.
367
00:26:25,668 --> 00:26:28,628
- But, Hans...
- Still...
368
00:26:28,796 --> 00:26:31,631
...as long as you've come this far...
369
00:26:32,424 --> 00:26:34,050
[BOTH CHUCKLES]
370
00:26:34,718 --> 00:26:36,886
[MAN PLAYING ACCORDION]
371
00:26:44,561 --> 00:26:47,522
[SINGING]
I sail up the Skagerrak
372
00:26:47,690 --> 00:26:50,400
And sail down the Kattegatt
373
00:26:50,567 --> 00:26:55,113
Through the harbor and up to the quay
374
00:26:55,281 --> 00:26:58,574
And there she stands
375
00:26:58,742 --> 00:27:01,536
Waiting for me
376
00:27:01,704 --> 00:27:07,959
With a welcome so warm and so gay
377
00:27:08,335 --> 00:27:14,215
Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
378
00:27:14,383 --> 00:27:18,928
Friendly old girl of a town
379
00:27:19,096 --> 00:27:21,889
'Neath her tavern light
380
00:27:22,057 --> 00:27:24,434
On this merry night
381
00:27:24,601 --> 00:27:30,398
Let us clink and drink one down
382
00:27:30,566 --> 00:27:36,821
To wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
383
00:27:36,989 --> 00:27:41,492
Salty old queen of the sea
384
00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:44,370
Once I sailed away
385
00:27:44,538 --> 00:27:47,123
But I'm home today
386
00:27:47,291 --> 00:27:50,918
Singing Copenhagen
387
00:27:51,086 --> 00:27:57,967
Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
For me
388
00:27:58,135 --> 00:28:00,219
There she is!
389
00:28:08,145 --> 00:28:12,273
ALL [SINGING]:
Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
390
00:28:12,441 --> 00:28:15,985
Friendly old girl of a town
391
00:28:16,153 --> 00:28:18,154
'Neath her tavern light
392
00:28:18,322 --> 00:28:20,406
On this merry night
393
00:28:20,574 --> 00:28:25,036
Let us clink and drink one down
394
00:28:25,204 --> 00:28:29,957
To wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
395
00:28:30,125 --> 00:28:33,628
Salty old queen of the sea
396
00:28:33,796 --> 00:28:35,713
Once I sailed away
397
00:28:35,881 --> 00:28:38,007
But I'm home today
398
00:28:38,175 --> 00:28:41,052
Singing Copenhagen
399
00:28:41,220 --> 00:28:47,600
Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
For me
400
00:28:47,810 --> 00:28:50,728
[SINGING]
Copenhagen Weekly Gazette
401
00:28:50,896 --> 00:28:58,444
Get your Copenhagen Weekly Gazette
402
00:28:58,612 --> 00:28:59,612
[BELL RINGING]
403
00:28:59,780 --> 00:29:03,658
Get your Copenhagen Weekly Gazette
404
00:29:05,577 --> 00:29:09,831
[SINGING]
Matches! Matches! Matches!
405
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,917
Please buy my matches
406
00:29:13,085 --> 00:29:16,671
Matches! Matches!
407
00:29:16,839 --> 00:29:20,216
MAN 1 [SINGING]:
Bric-a-brac! Bric-a-brac!
408
00:29:20,384 --> 00:29:25,388
[SINGING]
Nice red roses
409
00:29:25,556 --> 00:29:30,143
Nice red roses
410
00:29:34,648 --> 00:29:37,984
MAN 2 [SINGING]:
Pots and pans! Pots and pans!
411
00:29:38,152 --> 00:29:42,029
MAN 3:
Chimney sweep!
412
00:29:43,073 --> 00:29:47,326
Sweep your chimney!
413
00:30:15,772 --> 00:30:20,193
[SINGING]
Bass! Bass! Buy a bass!
414
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,653
[SINGING]
Nice fresh clams!
415
00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:25,698
[SINGING]
Fish!
416
00:30:25,866 --> 00:30:29,243
Fresh fish!
417
00:30:31,830 --> 00:30:34,665
[SINGING]
Buy rhubarb! Rhubarb! Buy rhubarb!
418
00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:37,418
MAN 4 [SINGING]:
Sausages! Sausages!
419
00:30:37,586 --> 00:30:40,171
Sausages! Sausages!
420
00:30:42,508 --> 00:30:46,219
[ALL SINGING]
421
00:30:46,386 --> 00:30:49,430
[SINGING]
Pretty flowers!
422
00:30:49,598 --> 00:30:53,059
[SINGING]
Cheese, butter and eggs here!
423
00:30:53,227 --> 00:30:55,686
Cheese, butter and eggs here!
424
00:30:55,854 --> 00:30:57,772
[SINGING]
Buy your bread from Bertha!
425
00:30:57,940 --> 00:31:00,233
HANS:
May I have a half loaf, please?
426
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,528
- Five skillings.
HANS: Thank you.
427
00:31:03,695 --> 00:31:07,740
- Hans, why don't we set up shop here?
- Hmm.
428
00:31:09,034 --> 00:31:12,703
Here? Well, what are we waiting for?
429
00:31:25,133 --> 00:31:27,176
[SINGING]
I'm Hans Christian Andersen
430
00:31:27,344 --> 00:31:29,303
The pride of the cobbler's trade
431
00:31:29,471 --> 00:31:33,599
Permit me to show you
A great discovery I've made
432
00:31:33,767 --> 00:31:35,685
A shoe goes squeak
And a shoe goes squawk
433
00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:37,562
A squeak-iddy-squawk all day
434
00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:39,605
Though you'd figure a shoe can't talk
435
00:31:39,773 --> 00:31:41,941
if you listen close
To the squeak and squawk
436
00:31:42,109 --> 00:31:43,734
You can plainly hear it say:
437
00:31:43,902 --> 00:31:47,405
"Let Hans Christian Andersen
Fix me right away"
438
00:31:47,573 --> 00:31:49,907
[ALL LAUGH]
439
00:31:50,075 --> 00:31:54,161
In Hans Christian Andersen
Your feet have a loyal friend
440
00:31:54,329 --> 00:31:58,332
The sort of a doctor, I'm sure
Your toes would recommend
441
00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:02,336
I work all night if a shoe's too tight
To see where the pinch comes from
442
00:32:02,504 --> 00:32:06,507
I raise my hammer and shut one eye
And I sometimes hit on the reason why
443
00:32:06,675 --> 00:32:08,342
And I sometimes hit my thumb
444
00:32:08,510 --> 00:32:09,635
- Oh.
ALL: Ha-ha-ha.
445
00:32:09,803 --> 00:32:10,845
What's your name?
446
00:32:11,013 --> 00:32:13,222
[SINGING]
I'm Hans Christian Andersen
447
00:32:13,390 --> 00:32:16,183
- You're under arrest.
- Under arrest?
448
00:32:16,351 --> 00:32:17,893
Disrespect for the king's statue.
449
00:32:18,061 --> 00:32:19,353
- Get that boy!
HANS: Oh.
450
00:32:19,521 --> 00:32:21,647
[POLICEMAN CLAMORING]
451
00:32:27,738 --> 00:32:30,197
Run, Peter!
452
00:32:30,365 --> 00:32:32,366
[CLAMORING]
453
00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:12,615
Do you want the new ballet ready
for the tour, Otto? Then do as I say, now!
454
00:33:12,783 --> 00:33:17,662
NIELS: You heard what we said.
OTTO: Niels, be sensible.
455
00:33:17,829 --> 00:33:20,873
All right, don't do it. Stand there and argue.
456
00:33:21,041 --> 00:33:24,585
I'll get a cobbler
while you go and teach them the ballet.
457
00:33:24,753 --> 00:33:28,547
OTTO: Why is it a matter of life and death
to have a cobbler right now?
458
00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:31,842
Because you have a ballerina
who is so pig-headed...
459
00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:35,971
...that I must make an example of her
in front of the entire company.
460
00:33:36,139 --> 00:33:37,765
That's awful perfume.
461
00:33:37,933 --> 00:33:40,226
PETER: Sir, I know where--
- Go away!
462
00:33:40,394 --> 00:33:44,605
She won't get away with this.
I know her far better than you do.
463
00:33:44,773 --> 00:33:49,443
- Very well. You know her.
- Otto, the ballet is only half finished.
464
00:33:49,611 --> 00:33:53,572
No cobbler, no ballet. I guarantee it, Otto!
465
00:33:53,740 --> 00:33:54,740
[OTTO SIGHS]
466
00:33:55,867 --> 00:33:59,328
- I know where you can get a cobbler, sir.
- What's that?
467
00:33:59,496 --> 00:34:02,289
I said I know
where you can get a cobbler, sir.
468
00:34:02,457 --> 00:34:03,833
Where?
469
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,336
- You'll have to use a little influence.
-Influence?
470
00:34:07,504 --> 00:34:10,047
With the police. We should hurry, sir.
471
00:34:10,215 --> 00:34:13,551
I know where one is sitting right now!
472
00:34:31,653 --> 00:34:35,281
GIRL: Hello.
HANS: Hello.
473
00:34:35,449 --> 00:34:37,908
- Hello!
- Hello!
474
00:34:38,785 --> 00:34:41,120
Are you all alone in there?
475
00:34:41,288 --> 00:34:44,665
Well, uh, in a way, yes.
476
00:34:44,833 --> 00:34:46,584
- Are you scared?
- Hmm?
477
00:34:46,752 --> 00:34:50,588
- Are you scared?
- Scared? No.
478
00:34:50,756 --> 00:34:54,300
Nobody's ever really alone.
Did you know that?
479
00:34:54,468 --> 00:34:57,803
As a matter of fact,
I'm expecting company right now.
480
00:34:57,971 --> 00:35:01,140
Would you like me to introduce you?
Are you sure?
481
00:35:01,308 --> 00:35:02,850
Absolutely sure?
482
00:35:03,018 --> 00:35:05,728
Don't go away.
483
00:35:24,581 --> 00:35:26,081
HANS:
There.
484
00:35:26,249 --> 00:35:27,541
Oh.
485
00:35:27,709 --> 00:35:32,755
Isn't she pretty? Her name is Thumbelina.
Say hello, Thumbelina.
486
00:35:32,923 --> 00:35:34,799
Now you say hello to her.
487
00:35:34,966 --> 00:35:36,342
Hello.
488
00:35:39,012 --> 00:35:40,888
Oh, she's very unhappy.
489
00:35:41,056 --> 00:35:43,474
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
What's the matter, Thumbelina?
490
00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:47,311
Are you unhappy
because you're so little, huh?
491
00:35:47,479 --> 00:35:50,648
That's nothing to make
such a sad face about, is it?
492
00:35:50,816 --> 00:35:52,900
Here. Come on.
493
00:35:53,068 --> 00:35:56,612
[SINGING]
Though you're no bigger than my thumb
494
00:35:56,780 --> 00:36:00,366
Than my thumb, than my thumb
495
00:36:00,534 --> 00:36:04,078
Sweet Thumbelina, don't be glum
496
00:36:04,246 --> 00:36:07,998
Now, now, now, ah, ah, ah,
Come, come, come
497
00:36:08,416 --> 00:36:12,253
Thumbelina, Thumbelina
Tiny little thing
498
00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:15,589
Thumbelina dance, Thumbelina sing
499
00:36:15,757 --> 00:36:19,426
Oh, Thumbelina, what's the difference
if you're very small?
500
00:36:19,594 --> 00:36:24,348
When your heart is full of love
You're 9 feet tall!
501
00:36:24,516 --> 00:36:29,562
Oh, she's still unhappy. What's the matter,
Thumbie? Would you like a playmate?
502
00:36:29,729 --> 00:36:31,438
You would? Here.
503
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,317
There. Say how do you do.
504
00:36:35,485 --> 00:36:37,278
Want a kiss? Uh-huh.
505
00:36:37,445 --> 00:36:41,866
Would you like to dance?
You would? Well, here we go.
506
00:36:42,450 --> 00:36:46,120
[SINGING]
Thumbelina, Thumbelina, tiny little thing
507
00:36:46,288 --> 00:36:49,790
Thumbelina dance, Thumbelina sing
508
00:36:49,958 --> 00:36:53,419
Thumbelina, what's the difference
if you're very small?
509
00:36:53,587 --> 00:36:59,633
When your heart is full of love,
You're 9 feet tall!
510
00:37:02,679 --> 00:37:03,679
MAN:
Open up.
511
00:37:03,847 --> 00:37:05,264
[KEYS JINGLING]
512
00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:09,268
PETER: Hans!
- Peter!
513
00:37:10,812 --> 00:37:13,564
- What are you doing here?
OTTO: You're a cobbler?
514
00:37:13,732 --> 00:37:15,190
- Yes.
- Hurry.
515
00:37:15,358 --> 00:37:20,029
You are in the custody
of the Royal Danish Ballet. Come along!
516
00:37:21,114 --> 00:37:25,409
- What am I in the custody of?
- Shh, you're out, that's the main thing.
517
00:37:25,577 --> 00:37:28,120
- They didn't treat you badly?
- No.
518
00:37:28,288 --> 00:37:30,414
- Where's your coat?
- Here.
519
00:37:30,582 --> 00:37:35,294
- Where are we going? Who is that man?
OTTO: What are you doing? Come along!
520
00:37:35,462 --> 00:37:38,172
Come on, Hans. We've got our first job!
521
00:37:38,632 --> 00:37:41,258
[BALLET MUSIC PLAYING]
522
00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:43,510
NIELS:
Straight! Straight!
523
00:37:43,678 --> 00:37:45,471
Straight!
524
00:37:45,639 --> 00:37:47,890
Keep the line straight!
525
00:37:48,058 --> 00:37:49,516
Up! Up!
526
00:37:51,353 --> 00:37:53,437
Good.
527
00:38:36,898 --> 00:38:40,776
- This is the most--
- Shh, dress rehearsal.
528
00:41:36,077 --> 00:41:38,829
All right.
529
00:41:38,997 --> 00:41:41,081
We'll do it all over again.
530
00:41:41,541 --> 00:41:47,254
Ladies, the pirouettes were impossible.
Gentlemen, the lifts have to be higher.
531
00:41:47,422 --> 00:41:49,965
The ballerina's performance
I won't begin to discuss.
532
00:41:50,133 --> 00:41:54,428
That would take till tomorrow morning.
We'll do it again.
533
00:41:54,596 --> 00:41:56,680
Not with these shoes, darling.
534
00:41:56,848 --> 00:41:59,725
I told you before, remember?
535
00:42:01,436 --> 00:42:04,271
Stop! Everything stop.
536
00:42:04,439 --> 00:42:05,939
Is the cobbler here yet?
537
00:42:07,317 --> 00:42:10,944
- Here I am.
- Come up here, cobbler.
538
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:14,948
Come on. Hurry up!
539
00:42:22,123 --> 00:42:26,043
Cobbler, this, uh, lady will explain to you
what she wants you to do.
540
00:42:26,211 --> 00:42:31,840
It's a trifle complicated, but she's no
ordinary dancer. She's something special.
541
00:42:32,008 --> 00:42:36,762
Of all the dancers in Denmark, she is
the only one who cannot follow my steps...
542
00:42:36,930 --> 00:42:40,224
...without special shoes
that exist only in her mind.
543
00:42:40,391 --> 00:42:43,185
All this she will make clear to you, perhaps.
544
00:42:43,353 --> 00:42:46,230
We cannot understand
so great a ballerina!
545
00:42:46,397 --> 00:42:49,775
We must only bow to her every wish.
546
00:42:49,943 --> 00:42:52,152
Not quite low enough, my dear!
547
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,865
Come, sir. We can talk more quietly
over there, I think.
548
00:43:00,703 --> 00:43:02,204
NIELS:
Lunch, everybody.
549
00:43:02,372 --> 00:43:05,040
[MURMURS]
550
00:43:06,417 --> 00:43:09,044
You've seen the ballet
when I make a jete?
551
00:43:09,212 --> 00:43:11,964
You know, when I jump.
552
00:43:12,131 --> 00:43:14,925
I want to rise and then remain motionless...
553
00:43:15,093 --> 00:43:19,429
...as though I were standing
on nothing but air.
554
00:43:19,597 --> 00:43:22,641
It is impossible with these shoes...
555
00:43:22,809 --> 00:43:28,313
...but if you could put something in the tip
of each one, I'm sure I could do it...
556
00:43:28,481 --> 00:43:31,441
...in spite of that unkind man.
557
00:43:31,609 --> 00:43:35,070
Oh, I would so love to show him
it is not impossible.
558
00:43:35,238 --> 00:43:37,322
It is possible, isn't it?
559
00:43:37,490 --> 00:43:39,032
Could you do it?
560
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,285
Uh, yes.
561
00:43:41,452 --> 00:43:43,954
Yes, I can do it.
562
00:43:44,122 --> 00:43:46,206
I'll find something.
563
00:43:46,374 --> 00:43:48,375
Something soft and silent.
564
00:43:48,543 --> 00:43:50,252
I'm sure I can do it.
565
00:43:50,420 --> 00:43:54,464
- You could really seem to stand on air.
- Oh, you have it!
566
00:43:54,632 --> 00:43:57,426
I can see you have the idea perfectly.
567
00:43:57,593 --> 00:44:00,304
I shall be so grateful to you.
568
00:44:00,471 --> 00:44:03,890
- Can you do it now, quickly?
- Yes.
569
00:44:04,058 --> 00:44:09,688
It would be such a service.
I would be forever grateful. Thank you.
570
00:44:09,856 --> 00:44:11,940
Louise, my slippers!
571
00:44:15,278 --> 00:44:17,529
MAN:
You have to go out this way.
572
00:44:19,949 --> 00:44:22,034
PETER:
Hans!
573
00:44:22,201 --> 00:44:25,078
Goodness, you were a long time!
Have we got a job?
574
00:44:25,246 --> 00:44:26,371
HANS:
Mm-hm.
575
00:44:26,539 --> 00:44:29,333
- What are you holding?
- Slippers.
576
00:44:29,500 --> 00:44:34,463
Slippers? I never saw slippers like that
before. Who wears a thing like that?
577
00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:38,383
- The loveliest lady I've ever seen.
- Why does she wear these?
578
00:44:38,551 --> 00:44:41,887
She dances, no, she floats.
579
00:44:42,055 --> 00:44:45,640
When she smiles, your heart skips
a beat and then melts.
580
00:44:45,808 --> 00:44:50,020
She smiled and stood close to me.
She even touched me, heh.
581
00:44:50,188 --> 00:44:51,563
Where's the barrow?
582
00:44:51,731 --> 00:44:53,106
- I promised these to her quickly.
- Right over here.
583
00:44:53,274 --> 00:44:55,192
[HANS CHUCKLES]
584
00:44:55,985 --> 00:44:58,945
I hid it here in the theater storeroom.
585
00:44:59,113 --> 00:45:03,408
She wants shoes that will walk on air.
This afternoon.
586
00:45:03,576 --> 00:45:06,119
Well, she'll have them.
587
00:45:06,287 --> 00:45:09,623
I wish she had asked me something
really impossible.
588
00:45:11,125 --> 00:45:13,126
[CHATTERING]
589
00:45:24,639 --> 00:45:26,473
Doro.
590
00:45:26,641 --> 00:45:28,725
Are you hungry?
591
00:45:32,146 --> 00:45:34,231
Do you love me?
592
00:45:34,399 --> 00:45:37,984
Yes, even half-starved, I love you.
593
00:45:39,237 --> 00:45:41,321
Come.
594
00:45:41,489 --> 00:45:43,573
Sit down. Let me feed you.
595
00:45:44,534 --> 00:45:48,703
Here. A sip of this to put you
in a better temper.
596
00:45:48,871 --> 00:45:50,956
And, look.
597
00:45:51,124 --> 00:45:54,000
I asked Helga
to make this especially for you.
598
00:45:54,168 --> 00:45:56,628
My darling, was I cruel today?
599
00:45:56,796 --> 00:46:00,340
You were, my friend. You were indeed.
600
00:46:00,508 --> 00:46:02,717
I was almost in tears.
601
00:46:02,885 --> 00:46:06,888
- Doro, I'm sorry.
- Niels, don't be sorry.
602
00:46:07,056 --> 00:46:10,767
It's just as it should be.
Don't you see that, my angel?
603
00:46:10,935 --> 00:46:16,148
Professionally, we fight like two tigers,
but afterwards...
604
00:46:16,315 --> 00:46:20,026
That's what makes it so good afterwards.
605
00:46:21,070 --> 00:46:23,155
Isn't it good now?
606
00:46:23,322 --> 00:46:28,452
It's wonderful. Why do I forget that
the minute you start to dance?
607
00:46:28,619 --> 00:46:31,913
Then I see only my mortal enemy,
the ballerina, in front of me.
608
00:46:32,081 --> 00:46:35,792
Because the ballet is your life,
just as it is mine.
609
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:40,464
Don't you think I sometimes forget
you are my husband when I am dancing...
610
00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:44,176
...and want to kill you
for some of the things you say?
611
00:46:44,343 --> 00:46:46,386
You really want to kill me?
612
00:46:46,554 --> 00:46:50,098
Of course I do. isn't that as it should be?
613
00:46:50,266 --> 00:46:54,060
I would hate it any other way,
wouldn't you?
614
00:46:54,228 --> 00:46:59,357
Oh, Niels, we are lucky,
and I do love you so.
615
00:47:10,369 --> 00:47:16,166
I'm sorry about the shoes. I will behave
beautifully this afternoon, you will see.
616
00:47:16,334 --> 00:47:21,588
- Sorry about the shoes?
- There was nothing wrong with them.
617
00:47:22,673 --> 00:47:24,799
I just did that to torment you.
618
00:47:25,426 --> 00:47:27,802
You did?
619
00:47:27,970 --> 00:47:31,223
I know exactly how to torment you,
don't I, darling?
620
00:47:31,390 --> 00:47:35,560
And you look so wonderfully poetic
when you are in a rage, my dear.
621
00:47:36,646 --> 00:47:40,941
Never mind how I look. So, uh, you just made
up that little bit about the shoes, huh?
622
00:47:41,108 --> 00:47:43,777
But you were being terrible.
You deserved it.
623
00:47:43,945 --> 00:47:48,740
You, uh-- You let everyone sit around
while you took your petty revenge, huh?
624
00:47:48,908 --> 00:47:53,328
You forget what you said in front
of the entire company about my dancing?
625
00:47:53,496 --> 00:47:56,623
Oh, no, I remember every word of it.
626
00:47:56,791 --> 00:47:59,709
- I was right!
- Oh, you were?
627
00:47:59,877 --> 00:48:03,964
Yes, and if you've finished stuffing
yourself, I can say it again...
628
00:48:04,131 --> 00:48:06,299
...because we're going
back to the rehearsal.
629
00:48:06,467 --> 00:48:10,679
You danced the waltz
like an elephant in a snowdrift!
630
00:48:11,222 --> 00:48:12,931
What did you say?
631
00:48:13,099 --> 00:48:17,269
I said you danced the waltz
like an elephant in a snowdrift!
632
00:48:17,436 --> 00:48:22,190
Like an elephant who fell down
and was trying to get up!
633
00:48:22,358 --> 00:48:24,442
Can you hear me? Is that loud enough?
634
00:48:24,610 --> 00:48:30,240
How dare you! I slave to make
each step you give me just right.
635
00:48:30,408 --> 00:48:34,619
I make your foolish little dance steps
acceptable to an audience.
636
00:48:34,787 --> 00:48:39,124
You don't slave hard enough.
Move in time to the music once in a while!
637
00:48:39,292 --> 00:48:44,004
You are not just cruel,
you are completely heartless.
638
00:48:44,171 --> 00:48:49,467
You love to say cruel things to me! You
would like to see me grovel at your feet!
639
00:48:49,635 --> 00:48:51,886
You'd see those steps clearer that way!
640
00:48:52,054 --> 00:48:53,888
How can I stand it?
641
00:48:54,056 --> 00:48:55,682
How do I bear it?
642
00:48:55,850 --> 00:48:59,144
You can cry harder than that.
I've heard you cry much harder.
643
00:48:59,312 --> 00:49:00,812
Oh.
644
00:49:07,403 --> 00:49:09,529
That, my girl, is for thinking up
those shoes.
645
00:49:09,697 --> 00:49:10,697
[DORO SCOFFS]
646
00:49:11,365 --> 00:49:13,241
On stage, everybody!
647
00:49:13,409 --> 00:49:16,786
Let's see what you can think up
for this afternoon's rehearsal.
648
00:49:18,289 --> 00:49:20,665
Oh, you've fixed the shoes? Good.
649
00:49:20,833 --> 00:49:23,710
- Do you see what he's doing to her?
- Of course.
650
00:49:23,878 --> 00:49:29,966
Never interfere between a husband
and wife. It's the best rule I ever heard of.
651
00:49:30,134 --> 00:49:32,844
You mean she's married to him?
652
00:49:33,012 --> 00:49:36,848
- To that man?
- Very much married. Outside, please.
653
00:49:37,016 --> 00:49:41,269
No one is allowed in the theater during
rehearsal. Another very good rule.
654
00:49:42,271 --> 00:49:44,898
How much do we owe you for the shoes?
655
00:49:58,037 --> 00:49:59,996
HANS:
How could you do it?
656
00:50:00,164 --> 00:50:03,750
How could a girl like you
marry a man like that?
657
00:50:03,918 --> 00:50:06,169
How can I help you?
658
00:50:06,337 --> 00:50:08,672
NIELS:
Dance! Dance!
659
00:50:08,839 --> 00:50:12,842
Dance! Dance! Dance!
660
00:50:35,366 --> 00:50:37,450
DORO:
Help me!
661
00:50:37,618 --> 00:50:40,995
Help me! Help me!
662
00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:54,801
Help me!
663
00:52:30,064 --> 00:52:31,523
DORO:
Cobbler?
664
00:52:31,690 --> 00:52:36,653
Cobbler! Thank you for the shoes.
665
00:52:36,821 --> 00:52:39,155
You left before I had a chance
to thank you.
666
00:52:39,323 --> 00:52:40,990
They were wonderful.
667
00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:44,994
I really floated on air. Thank you.
668
00:52:53,462 --> 00:52:55,088
Thank you.
669
00:52:58,425 --> 00:53:01,344
Don't tell me what to do!
They'll work tomorrow.
670
00:53:01,512 --> 00:53:06,224
They'll work till they get it right.
I'll see them drop in their tracks.
671
00:53:06,392 --> 00:53:09,853
And you have my coat ready for me
when I'm ready to leave!
672
00:53:15,818 --> 00:53:17,861
NIELS:
Home!
673
00:53:36,171 --> 00:53:38,590
What funny people they are over there.
674
00:53:38,757 --> 00:53:44,512
They laugh and kiss, then they scream
and beat each other. Kind of crazy.
675
00:53:46,599 --> 00:53:48,683
What are you doing, Hans?
676
00:53:48,851 --> 00:53:52,270
HANS: Writing.
- A letter? To the children?
677
00:53:52,438 --> 00:53:55,982
- Say something for me to them.
- It's not to the children.
678
00:53:56,150 --> 00:53:59,569
What? Who are you writing to, Hans?
679
00:53:59,737 --> 00:54:01,362
The ballerina.
680
00:54:01,530 --> 00:54:03,698
Stop bothering me, Peter.
681
00:54:07,828 --> 00:54:10,496
Why are you writing
to the ballerina, Hans?
682
00:54:11,540 --> 00:54:16,210
I heard him talk to her.
I saw him slap her face.
683
00:54:16,879 --> 00:54:20,006
But, Hans, they're married.
684
00:54:21,258 --> 00:54:23,593
I know that.
685
00:54:23,761 --> 00:54:26,638
I heard them talking
before you came in, Hans.
686
00:54:26,805 --> 00:54:29,515
It was different.
687
00:54:29,683 --> 00:54:33,311
Peter, you're a child.
You don't understand.
688
00:54:34,355 --> 00:54:36,689
I saw him make her cry.
689
00:54:36,857 --> 00:54:39,275
- But they--
- Don't bother me.
690
00:54:39,443 --> 00:54:42,153
I must finish this tonight.
691
00:54:57,962 --> 00:55:04,050
"The Little Mermaid.
A story for Mademoiselle Doro.
692
00:55:05,469 --> 00:55:12,350
And so, gradually, the little mermaid
began to understand.
693
00:55:12,893 --> 00:55:18,940
She had sought love
from the wrong man."
694
00:55:21,652 --> 00:55:23,236
[GRUNTS]
695
00:55:42,715 --> 00:55:44,924
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
696
00:55:54,059 --> 00:55:55,309
Come in.
697
00:55:57,938 --> 00:56:00,898
I'm sorry, sir, but he insisted
on seeing you immediately.
698
00:56:01,066 --> 00:56:02,108
Shh. Shh. Shh.
699
00:56:02,276 --> 00:56:06,446
She's asleep. What's the trouble?
Who's this little boy?
700
00:56:06,613 --> 00:56:12,285
This is addressed to Mademoiselle Doro.
He was in the theater trying to take it.
701
00:56:12,453 --> 00:56:15,496
It seems to be a story,
and it is addressed to her.
702
00:56:15,664 --> 00:56:17,749
Why were you trying to take it?
703
00:56:17,916 --> 00:56:23,796
- I wasn't trying to steal it. It's mine.
- Then why is it addressed to my wife?
704
00:56:23,964 --> 00:56:28,468
- Niels, what is all this?
- It's mine! Please give it to me.
705
00:56:29,678 --> 00:56:31,596
Who wrote this?
706
00:56:32,598 --> 00:56:34,474
I did.
707
00:56:34,641 --> 00:56:36,809
You did?
708
00:56:42,566 --> 00:56:46,694
Suppose you tell me why you happened
to write this story to my wife?
709
00:56:46,862 --> 00:56:48,946
It's nothing to do with you or her.
710
00:56:49,114 --> 00:56:52,408
It's just a story.
He made up a story, that's all.
711
00:56:52,576 --> 00:56:56,287
He's always making up stories,
and he made up this one.
712
00:56:56,455 --> 00:56:59,165
Would you mind telling me
who he is?
713
00:56:59,333 --> 00:57:04,337
We know you didn't write it, so you might
as well stop lying. Who is he?
714
00:57:04,505 --> 00:57:05,963
A friend of mine.
715
00:57:06,131 --> 00:57:07,590
- Ha, ha.
- What's his name?
716
00:57:07,758 --> 00:57:11,803
Hans Christian Andersen. The cobbler.
717
00:57:11,970 --> 00:57:14,180
[LAUGHING]
718
00:57:15,974 --> 00:57:18,226
Darling, it's the cobbler.
719
00:57:18,393 --> 00:57:21,854
The cobbler who fixed my shoes
so beautifully yesterday.
720
00:57:22,022 --> 00:57:25,108
- He's written me a story for a ballet.
NIELS: Heh.
721
00:57:25,275 --> 00:57:29,278
- I don't believe it!
- Heh, oh, tell him I am delighted to have it.
722
00:57:29,446 --> 00:57:32,406
What was his name, Hans?
I will read it carefully.
723
00:57:32,574 --> 00:57:33,908
[NIELS AND DORO CHUCKLE]
724
00:57:34,076 --> 00:57:36,953
- The Little Mermaid! Heh.
- Oh, honey, stop it.
725
00:57:37,121 --> 00:57:40,331
It is all very innocent and quite touching.
726
00:57:41,917 --> 00:57:43,000
[NIELS CHUCKLES]
727
00:57:43,168 --> 00:57:45,086
I haven't said good morning yet.
728
00:57:46,463 --> 00:57:48,548
Good morning, darling.
729
00:58:09,778 --> 00:58:13,781
Where have you been?
I've lost it. I can't find it any place.
730
00:58:13,949 --> 00:58:16,659
Help me look, will you, Peter?
731
00:58:16,827 --> 00:58:19,662
Just when I need you most, you disappear.
732
00:58:19,830 --> 00:58:22,290
I'll have to write it all over again.
733
00:58:22,457 --> 00:58:26,794
- You don't have to write it again.
- Don't stand there. Start looking.
734
00:58:26,962 --> 00:58:29,839
- You don't have to write it again.
- What?
735
00:58:30,007 --> 00:58:31,674
PETER:
She's got it.
736
00:58:36,513 --> 00:58:38,598
What did you say?
737
00:58:38,765 --> 00:58:41,893
She has it, Hans. Right now.
738
00:58:42,060 --> 00:58:44,145
She has?
739
00:58:44,313 --> 00:58:46,480
But how did she get it?
740
00:58:49,193 --> 00:58:52,153
I was reading it
and it blew out of my hands.
741
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:55,364
You took it?
742
00:58:55,532 --> 00:58:58,826
But why? Never mind that, Peter. Go on.
743
00:58:58,994 --> 00:59:02,663
It blew into the window
of the theater, and...
744
00:59:03,999 --> 00:59:06,083
That's how she got it.
745
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,337
A wind took it to her.
746
00:59:09,504 --> 00:59:12,423
It's an omen, Peter. An omen.
747
00:59:14,176 --> 00:59:16,135
She's reading it now.
748
00:59:22,351 --> 00:59:24,435
Don't go over there, Hans, don't.
749
00:59:24,603 --> 00:59:27,813
I must, Peter. I've got to talk to her.
I can help her.
750
00:59:30,192 --> 00:59:34,278
That chair and this sofa.
Let's get them on the wagon.
751
00:59:34,446 --> 00:59:37,448
What's going on here?
What are you doing?
752
00:59:37,616 --> 00:59:39,408
The ballet's moving out.
753
00:59:40,452 --> 00:59:42,536
Moving out?
754
00:59:48,126 --> 00:59:49,627
Excuse me.
755
00:59:49,795 --> 00:59:54,048
- Is it true the ballet's moving out?
- That's right. Their yearly tour.
756
00:59:54,216 --> 00:59:57,635
Where to? How long will they be gone?
757
01:00:04,559 --> 01:00:07,311
[BELL RINGING]
758
01:00:11,608 --> 01:00:14,652
[ALL LAUGHING]
759
01:00:29,251 --> 01:00:32,878
Oh, there's the school bell.
Off to school. Hurry up.
760
01:00:33,046 --> 01:00:37,049
Off with you. Tomorrow's
another day and another story.
761
01:00:37,926 --> 01:00:43,180
I don't want any trouble with
the schoolmaster. Hurry, children.
762
01:00:48,228 --> 01:00:50,479
What's the matter? Are you unhappy?
763
01:00:54,151 --> 01:00:58,529
Would you like me to tell you
a special story?
764
01:00:58,697 --> 01:01:00,489
Come on up here.
765
01:01:02,951 --> 01:01:05,036
Come on.
766
01:01:12,044 --> 01:01:15,504
I'm not going to hurt you.
Go up a little faster.
767
01:01:17,549 --> 01:01:20,551
Now, let me see...
768
01:01:24,848 --> 01:01:29,602
[SINGING]
There once was an ugly duckling
769
01:01:29,770 --> 01:01:33,356
With feathers all stubby and brown
770
01:01:33,523 --> 01:01:40,529
And the other birds, in so many words
Said, "Quack, get out of town
771
01:01:41,281 --> 01:01:43,657
Quack, get out, quack, quack
772
01:01:43,825 --> 01:01:48,204
Get out, quack, quack
Get out of town"
773
01:01:48,372 --> 01:01:52,166
And he went with a quack
And a waddle and a quack
774
01:01:52,334 --> 01:01:55,878
In a flurry of eiderdown
775
01:01:56,963 --> 01:01:59,548
Shall I tell you the rest?
776
01:01:59,716 --> 01:02:01,801
All right.
777
01:02:03,095 --> 01:02:06,680
[SINGING]
That poor little ugly duckling
778
01:02:06,848 --> 01:02:10,434
Went wandering far and near
779
01:02:10,602 --> 01:02:14,063
But at every place
They said to his face
780
01:02:14,231 --> 01:02:18,109
"Now, quack, get out of here
781
01:02:18,276 --> 01:02:22,738
Quack, get out, quack, quack
Get out, quack, quack
782
01:02:22,906 --> 01:02:25,157
Get out of here
783
01:02:25,325 --> 01:02:28,953
And he went with a quack
And a waddle and a quack
784
01:02:29,121 --> 01:02:32,706
And a very unhappy tear
785
01:02:40,382 --> 01:02:45,845
All through the wintertime
He hid himself away
786
01:02:46,012 --> 01:02:52,268
Ashamed to show his face
Afraid of what others might say
787
01:02:52,436 --> 01:02:58,441
All through the winter
In his lonely clump of weed
788
01:02:58,608 --> 01:03:04,780
Till a flock of swans spied him there
And very soon agreed
789
01:03:04,948 --> 01:03:11,704
"You're a very fine swan indeed"
790
01:03:11,872 --> 01:03:13,247
"A swan?
791
01:03:13,415 --> 01:03:16,000
Me a swan? Nah, go on."
792
01:03:16,168 --> 01:03:20,671
They said, "Yes, you're a swan.
Look at yourself in the lake. You'll see."
793
01:03:20,839 --> 01:03:24,383
And he looked and he saw
and he said, "I am a swan!"
794
01:03:24,551 --> 01:03:27,011
Wow!
795
01:03:27,179 --> 01:03:31,140
[SINGING]
I'm not such an ugly duckling
796
01:03:31,308 --> 01:03:34,477
No feathers all stubby and brown
797
01:03:34,644 --> 01:03:38,814
For, in fact, these birds
In so many words said, tsk
798
01:03:38,982 --> 01:03:41,775
"The best in town
799
01:03:41,943 --> 01:03:45,571
Tsk, the best, tsk, tsk
The best, tsk, tsk
800
01:03:45,739 --> 01:03:47,865
The best in town"
801
01:03:48,033 --> 01:03:51,160
Not a quack, not a quack
Not a waddle or a quack
802
01:03:51,328 --> 01:03:56,248
But a glide and a whistle
And a snowy white back
803
01:03:56,416 --> 01:04:02,379
And a head so noble and high
804
01:04:02,547 --> 01:04:06,383
Say who's an ugly duckling?
805
01:04:06,551 --> 01:04:08,594
Not I
806
01:04:10,013 --> 01:04:11,639
[WHISTLING]
807
01:04:15,519 --> 01:04:16,560
Not I
808
01:04:16,728 --> 01:04:17,770
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
809
01:04:17,938 --> 01:04:22,107
So it shouldn't make any difference
if they won't play with you.
810
01:04:22,275 --> 01:04:24,902
But it does. I want to play with them...
811
01:04:25,070 --> 01:04:29,823
...but they make fun of me because I was
sick and the doctor shaved my head.
812
01:04:29,991 --> 01:04:33,244
Yes, but look what happened
to the ugly duckling.
813
01:04:33,411 --> 01:04:35,913
Huh? One day soon,
you'll look in the mirror...
814
01:04:36,081 --> 01:04:38,624
...much sooner than you think...
815
01:04:38,792 --> 01:04:43,921
...and your hair will be grown out,
and you'll be just like the ugly duckling.
816
01:04:44,089 --> 01:04:46,882
You'll be better than any of them,
I promise.
817
01:04:47,050 --> 01:04:50,928
- Are you sure, Hans?
- Very sure.
818
01:04:51,763 --> 01:04:55,349
You'd better run off to school.
You're late now.
819
01:04:55,517 --> 01:04:57,601
- Bye, Hans.
- Goodbye.
820
01:05:03,900 --> 01:05:07,695
Oh, uh, cobbler, are my shoes ready?
821
01:05:07,862 --> 01:05:11,156
Oh, yes, ma'am. I have them here.
One mark, please.
822
01:05:11,324 --> 01:05:16,161
- As much as that?
- Yes, ma'am. They're practically new.
823
01:05:18,248 --> 01:05:20,249
How beautiful!
824
01:05:20,417 --> 01:05:22,501
What kind of shoes are they?
825
01:05:23,336 --> 01:05:27,172
Ballet slippers. I made them myself.
Every inch of them.
826
01:05:27,340 --> 01:05:29,425
How lovely they are!
827
01:05:29,593 --> 01:05:32,678
Oh, please, ma'am. They might soil.
You understand.
828
01:05:32,846 --> 01:05:34,930
Who wears such lovely things?
829
01:05:35,098 --> 01:05:39,018
A lady who dances.
Her feet twinkle like little stars.
830
01:05:39,561 --> 01:05:43,897
I assure you, the slippers won't even
be noticed, she's so beautiful herself.
831
01:05:45,233 --> 01:05:48,611
- Uh, thank you.
- Oh!
832
01:05:49,487 --> 01:05:52,656
Thank you. Please come again.
833
01:06:39,079 --> 01:06:41,288
[SINGING]
Her arms were warm
834
01:06:41,456 --> 01:06:44,333
As they welcomed me
835
01:06:44,501 --> 01:06:48,545
Her eyes were fire-bright
836
01:06:49,297 --> 01:06:54,009
And then I knew that my path must be
837
01:06:54,552 --> 01:06:58,764
Through the ever haunted night
838
01:06:59,974 --> 01:07:05,437
For anywhere I wander
839
01:07:06,398 --> 01:07:10,651
Anywhere I roam
840
01:07:11,236 --> 01:07:17,074
Till I'm in the arms of my darling again
841
01:07:17,826 --> 01:07:22,454
My heart will find no home
842
01:07:24,124 --> 01:07:29,086
Anywhere I wander
843
01:07:30,380 --> 01:07:34,341
Anywhere I roam
844
01:08:01,828 --> 01:08:07,207
Anywhere I wander
845
01:08:09,169 --> 01:08:15,507
Anywhere I roam
846
01:08:38,615 --> 01:08:41,575
- You're Hans the cobbler?
- Yes, sir.
847
01:08:41,743 --> 01:08:44,453
- I'm pleased to know you.
- How do you do?
848
01:08:44,621 --> 01:08:47,414
You've no idea
what this is all about?
849
01:08:47,582 --> 01:08:50,918
- No, sir.
- I'm the father of the ugly duckling.
850
01:08:51,085 --> 01:08:56,548
- Does that mean anything to you?
- Oh, ho, ho, ho, you're Lars' father. I see.
851
01:08:56,716 --> 01:09:01,094
That little story helped him
over a bad time. I'm very grateful to you.
852
01:09:01,262 --> 01:09:05,349
When I made inquiries, I found
you had a lot more of these stories.
853
01:09:05,517 --> 01:09:07,351
- The children are full of them these days.
- Heh.
854
01:09:07,519 --> 01:09:09,686
Do you ever write any of them?
855
01:09:09,854 --> 01:09:13,565
- Oh, no, sir.
- I've a little surprise for you. Come.
856
01:09:15,109 --> 01:09:17,402
Give me a small sheet of paper.
857
01:09:24,285 --> 01:09:25,911
[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
858
01:09:40,051 --> 01:09:41,677
Oh!
859
01:09:42,846 --> 01:09:44,555
[CHUCKLES]
860
01:09:46,057 --> 01:09:48,851
Thank you very much.
861
01:09:51,771 --> 01:09:52,813
[CHUCKLES]
862
01:09:52,981 --> 01:09:57,734
- It's the finest present I've ever had.
- I'm delighted. Lars will be too.
863
01:10:01,489 --> 01:10:04,449
Could I say something, sir?
You wouldn't mind?
864
01:10:04,617 --> 01:10:07,494
Of course not. Say anything you want.
865
01:10:07,662 --> 01:10:11,206
Well, instead of "Hans the Cobbler"...
866
01:10:11,374 --> 01:10:15,252
...could it say "Hans Christian
Andersen," like a real writer?
867
01:10:16,004 --> 01:10:17,379
Certainly!
868
01:10:17,547 --> 01:10:23,010
If you write some of those stories down,
just the way you tell them to the children...
869
01:10:23,177 --> 01:10:27,431
...I'll print them, and pay you for them.
870
01:10:29,225 --> 01:10:31,768
I can hardly believe it!
871
01:10:33,062 --> 01:10:35,647
- When will this be in the paper?
- Tomorrow.
872
01:10:35,815 --> 01:10:41,069
It'll say "Hans Christian Andersen"
all day tomorrow.
873
01:10:41,237 --> 01:10:43,405
All day?
874
01:10:43,573 --> 01:10:45,073
[CHUCKLES]
875
01:10:45,241 --> 01:10:48,660
- Well, goodbye, sir.
- Goodbye.
876
01:10:49,913 --> 01:10:51,997
All day?
877
01:10:53,875 --> 01:10:57,002
- Oh, thank you, sir.
- Thank you.
878
01:11:03,885 --> 01:11:09,598
"The Ugly Duckling
by Hans Christian Andersen."
879
01:11:11,100 --> 01:11:13,727
[SINGING]
I'm Hans Christian Andersen
880
01:11:14,646 --> 01:11:17,397
That fortune has smiled upon
881
01:11:17,565 --> 01:11:22,110
Although I'm a duckling today
Tomorrow I'm a swan
882
01:11:22,278 --> 01:11:26,239
A tale I told and it turned to gold
As gold as a tale can be
883
01:11:26,407 --> 01:11:30,911
I laugh ha, ha, ha, but I blush a bit
For I realize while I'm reading it
884
01:11:31,079 --> 01:11:32,829
That it's also reading me
885
01:11:32,997 --> 01:11:35,332
"By Hans Christian Andersen"
886
01:11:35,500 --> 01:11:36,541
[CHUCKLES]
887
01:11:36,709 --> 01:11:38,543
I am a swan!
888
01:11:38,711 --> 01:11:40,629
[SINGING]
I write myself a note each day
889
01:11:40,797 --> 01:11:42,381
And I place it in my hat
890
01:11:42,548 --> 01:11:46,426
The wind comes by, the hat blows high
But that's not the end of that
891
01:11:46,594 --> 01:11:50,722
For round and round the world it goes
It lands here right behind myself
892
01:11:50,890 --> 01:11:55,560
I pick it up and I read the note
Which is merely to remind myself
893
01:11:55,728 --> 01:11:58,188
I'm Hans Christian Andersen
894
01:11:58,356 --> 01:11:59,940
Andersen
895
01:12:00,358 --> 01:12:02,442
Peter!
896
01:12:05,780 --> 01:12:08,240
[SINGING]
I'm Hans Christian Andersen
897
01:12:08,408 --> 01:12:10,867
I bring you a fable rare
898
01:12:11,035 --> 01:12:15,747
There once was a table who said,
"How I'd love a chair"
899
01:12:15,915 --> 01:12:19,292
And then and there
Came a sweet young chair
900
01:12:19,460 --> 01:12:22,546
All dressed in a bridal gown
901
01:12:22,714 --> 01:12:25,549
He said to her in a voice so true:
902
01:12:25,717 --> 01:12:30,178
"Now I did not say I would marry you
But I would like to sit down"
903
01:12:30,346 --> 01:12:32,681
I'm Hans Christian Andersen
904
01:12:32,849 --> 01:12:34,933
Andersen's in town
905
01:12:35,101 --> 01:12:36,727
[WHISTLING]
906
01:12:40,523 --> 01:12:44,609
"The Ugly Duckling
by Hans the Cobbler!"
907
01:12:44,777 --> 01:12:47,404
You're looking at a writer. A real writer.
908
01:12:47,572 --> 01:12:51,992
Tomorrow, the newspaper will say,
"Hans Christian Andersen" all day!
909
01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:54,995
- Was that what the newspaper wanted?
- Uh-huh. Yes.
910
01:12:55,163 --> 01:12:57,622
They've printed one of your stories!
911
01:12:57,790 --> 01:13:02,210
And the way it happened
is like a story in itself. Wait till you hear.
912
01:13:02,378 --> 01:13:06,298
From now on, if anybody
asks who you're working for...
913
01:13:06,466 --> 01:13:07,841
...you can say a writer.
914
01:13:08,009 --> 01:13:11,261
You are working for a real writer!
915
01:13:11,971 --> 01:13:13,597
[BOTH LAUGH]
916
01:13:15,349 --> 01:13:18,226
-"The Ugly Duckling by Hans the Cobbler."
- Uh-huh.
917
01:13:18,394 --> 01:13:20,479
I can hardly believe it!
918
01:13:20,646 --> 01:13:22,731
Peter...
919
01:13:25,276 --> 01:13:27,152
Can you imagine...?
920
01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:29,988
Can you imagine
the schoolmaster's face?
921
01:13:30,156 --> 01:13:33,075
One day, a newspaper
arrives from Copenhagen.
922
01:13:33,242 --> 01:13:36,495
He opens it up and he looks,
and suddenly...
923
01:13:36,913 --> 01:13:41,541
He can't believe his eyes!
"Hans Christian Andersen?" he says.
924
01:13:41,709 --> 01:13:43,835
"Hans the Cobbler?
925
01:13:44,003 --> 01:13:47,047
A story by Hans Christian Andersen?
Mm.
926
01:13:48,216 --> 01:13:50,759
Mm. Fine story." Have a bite.
927
01:13:50,927 --> 01:13:53,303
- There's something on your hand.
HANS: Hmm.
928
01:13:53,471 --> 01:13:56,056
- That must be from the printing machine.
- Hmm.
929
01:13:58,434 --> 01:14:00,102
Peter...
930
01:14:00,269 --> 01:14:02,062
Look.
931
01:14:02,230 --> 01:14:06,191
-"Royal Danish Ballet returns from tour."
- Yes, Peter.
932
01:14:06,359 --> 01:14:10,195
She's back!
933
01:14:10,363 --> 01:14:13,323
Oh, what a day!
Everything is happening at once!
934
01:14:14,242 --> 01:14:17,077
Hans, we promised some shoes
for today.
935
01:14:17,245 --> 01:14:20,247
I'll do it later. I couldn't possibly sit still.
936
01:14:20,414 --> 01:14:23,959
She's back! I've got to walk! She's back!
937
01:14:41,102 --> 01:14:44,938
[BALLET MUSIC PLAYING]
938
01:16:23,996 --> 01:16:25,413
[APPLAUDING]
939
01:16:57,655 --> 01:16:59,281
[ALL GASP]
940
01:17:24,307 --> 01:17:26,141
[SINGING]
Never before and never again
941
01:17:26,309 --> 01:17:28,101
Never before and never again
942
01:17:28,269 --> 01:17:30,937
No two people
Have ever been so in love
943
01:17:31,105 --> 01:17:33,648
Been so in love
944
01:17:33,816 --> 01:17:35,650
- Been so in love
- It's incredible
945
01:17:35,818 --> 01:17:41,489
No two people have ever been so in love
As my lovey dove and I
946
01:17:41,657 --> 01:17:45,368
This is unique, the positive peak
We are the most unusual couple on earth
947
01:17:45,536 --> 01:17:50,540
No two people have ever mooned
Such a moon, juned such a June
948
01:17:50,708 --> 01:17:52,459
Spooned such a spoon
949
01:17:52,626 --> 01:17:56,212
What he means is that no two people
Have ever been so in tune
950
01:17:56,380 --> 01:17:59,215
As my macaroon and I
951
01:17:59,383 --> 01:18:00,884
And when we kiss
952
01:18:01,052 --> 01:18:03,511
- And when we kiss
- What verse is this?
953
01:18:03,679 --> 01:18:05,597
It's hysterical, it's historical
954
01:18:05,765 --> 01:18:07,849
- Let me tell it
- Certainly, darling
955
01:18:08,017 --> 01:18:10,727
No two people
Have ever been so in love
956
01:18:10,895 --> 01:18:14,397
Been so in love
957
01:18:14,565 --> 01:18:18,818
It's impossible
No two people have ever been so in love
958
01:18:18,986 --> 01:18:21,196
As my lovey dove and I
959
01:18:21,364 --> 01:18:22,906
This is the cream
The very extreme
960
01:18:23,074 --> 01:18:25,367
The sort of a dream
You couldn't imagine at all
961
01:18:25,534 --> 01:18:32,499
No two people have ever been so in love
As my lovey dove and I
962
01:18:36,712 --> 01:18:40,382
ALL [SINGING]:
No two people have ever been so in love
963
01:18:40,549 --> 01:18:44,511
Been so in love
Been so in love
964
01:18:44,678 --> 01:18:47,889
No two people have ever been so in love
965
01:18:52,395 --> 01:18:53,853
Mrs. Andersen.
966
01:18:54,021 --> 01:18:56,022
Mr. Andersen.
967
01:18:56,190 --> 01:18:58,024
Mrs. Andersen.
968
01:18:58,192 --> 01:19:00,318
Mr. Andersen.
969
01:19:03,697 --> 01:19:05,532
DORO:
Mr. Andersen.
970
01:19:06,158 --> 01:19:10,537
Mr. Andersen?
971
01:19:10,704 --> 01:19:13,331
Heh, Mr. Andersen.
972
01:19:13,499 --> 01:19:17,085
How sweet of you to be here
the very moment we return.
973
01:19:17,253 --> 01:19:20,213
How did you know we were going
to do your ballet?
974
01:19:21,465 --> 01:19:26,428
Never mind. Your real reward will come
tomorrow night when I dance it for you.
975
01:19:26,595 --> 01:19:28,680
You will come, won't you?
976
01:19:31,350 --> 01:19:34,978
Perhaps you will have words for me
by tomorrow night, huh?
977
01:19:35,146 --> 01:19:37,230
Come, Louise.
978
01:19:38,441 --> 01:19:40,024
[WHISTLING]
979
01:19:42,820 --> 01:19:45,738
What would they say back in the village?
980
01:19:45,906 --> 01:19:48,825
You and me getting ready to go
to the opera house in Copenhagen.
981
01:19:48,993 --> 01:19:51,995
Heh. To see my ballet! Heh.
982
01:19:52,163 --> 01:19:54,539
Would they believe it? Never.
983
01:19:54,707 --> 01:19:58,251
"One of the cobbler's stories," they'd say.
"How can the children believe them?"
984
01:19:58,419 --> 01:19:59,878
[CHUCKLES]
985
01:20:00,045 --> 01:20:04,883
But even I wouldn't dare make up a story
like this, and it happens to be true.
986
01:20:06,010 --> 01:20:08,595
Is it all right if I don't go with you?
987
01:20:08,762 --> 01:20:10,221
What?
988
01:20:10,389 --> 01:20:11,598
[WHISTLING]
989
01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:18,271
- I said is it all right if I don't go?
- No!
990
01:20:18,439 --> 01:20:23,818
It's not all right if you don't go with me.
What's the matter with you?
991
01:20:23,986 --> 01:20:26,488
Something's wrong with you.
992
01:20:26,655 --> 01:20:28,615
Come inside.
993
01:20:42,379 --> 01:20:46,466
What's the matter, Peter?
Come on. Out with it.
994
01:20:49,011 --> 01:20:53,765
I've been trying to tell you
something, Hans, all day.
995
01:20:53,933 --> 01:20:55,058
[CHUCKLES]
996
01:20:55,726 --> 01:20:59,854
All right, Peter. Tell me now.
997
01:21:00,022 --> 01:21:04,359
It's hard for me, Hans.
I don't know how to say it.
998
01:21:06,862 --> 01:21:09,989
Never mind. Just say it.
999
01:21:12,201 --> 01:21:15,453
I tried once to tell you,
but you wouldn't listen.
1000
01:21:15,621 --> 01:21:19,791
Then they went away,
and I thought you'd forget about it.
1001
01:21:19,959 --> 01:21:23,336
- They?
- I don't like people who laugh at you.
1002
01:21:23,504 --> 01:21:25,755
It hurts me when people laugh at you.
1003
01:21:25,923 --> 01:21:29,509
Back in the village when they made
fun of you, I wanted to kill them.
1004
01:21:29,677 --> 01:21:33,972
Laugh at me? What are you
talking about, Peter?
1005
01:21:34,139 --> 01:21:37,725
Her and him. You don't understand them.
1006
01:21:38,686 --> 01:21:40,979
What don't I understand?
1007
01:21:41,146 --> 01:21:45,233
You're making up a story about them,
like you do about everything else...
1008
01:21:45,401 --> 01:21:49,320
...only this time it's about them,
not clocks and flowers and stars.
1009
01:21:49,488 --> 01:21:52,865
- She'll laugh at you, Hans!
- So that's it.
1010
01:21:53,742 --> 01:21:55,994
I thought so.
1011
01:21:56,912 --> 01:21:58,830
Is she laughing at me
when she does my ballet?
1012
01:21:58,998 --> 01:22:02,625
Was she laughing at me
when she kissed me?
1013
01:22:03,877 --> 01:22:06,713
- She kissed you?
- Yes.
1014
01:22:07,673 --> 01:22:10,008
You didn't know that, did you?
1015
01:22:11,260 --> 01:22:16,598
- I don't care. It's true what I'm saying.
- I'm sorry you said that, Peter.
1016
01:22:16,765 --> 01:22:21,477
You never lied to me before.
You don't have to come with me tonight.
1017
01:22:23,397 --> 01:22:26,983
Maybe you'd better see if you can
find work with somebody else.
1018
01:22:28,902 --> 01:22:31,571
You're old enough now
to be by yourself...
1019
01:22:32,823 --> 01:22:36,451
...and I think we'd better part company
altogether because...
1020
01:22:38,954 --> 01:22:41,873
Because I don't think
we like each other anymore.
1021
01:23:34,510 --> 01:23:36,260
[CHATTERING]
1022
01:23:37,304 --> 01:23:39,180
HANS:
I beg your pardon.
1023
01:23:39,348 --> 01:23:41,933
No one's allowed in
before the performance.
1024
01:23:42,101 --> 01:23:45,478
I am Hans Christian Andersen.
1025
01:23:45,646 --> 01:23:49,816
- The author of the ballet they're doing.
- Oh, heh, good evening.
1026
01:23:49,983 --> 01:23:53,361
Don't you read the posters
outside your own theater?
1027
01:23:53,529 --> 01:23:58,199
NIELS: Make it lower.
Up, down again, around, that's it.
1028
01:23:58,367 --> 01:24:00,451
That's it.
1029
01:24:00,619 --> 01:24:02,704
Stay together.
1030
01:24:02,871 --> 01:24:05,623
Around.
1031
01:24:05,791 --> 01:24:08,710
That's much better. Keep it up.
1032
01:24:08,877 --> 01:24:12,839
That's it. Now go around.
Come around this way.
1033
01:24:13,424 --> 01:24:15,967
Who are you? Get out of here!
1034
01:24:16,135 --> 01:24:20,054
Don't deliver shoes before a performance!
Leave them with the doorman.
1035
01:24:20,222 --> 01:24:24,058
- Try the arabesque again.
- The name is Andersen.
1036
01:24:24,226 --> 01:24:28,062
- Hans Christian Andersen.
- Andersen? The ballet writer!
1037
01:24:28,230 --> 01:24:31,399
I'd like to deliver these shoes
to Mademoiselle Doro.
1038
01:24:31,567 --> 01:24:34,193
Be a good fellow and get out now.
1039
01:24:34,361 --> 01:24:37,905
- Will you move the big shell upstage?
- Yes, sir.
1040
01:24:38,073 --> 01:24:40,742
Go out front and watch your ballet.
1041
01:24:40,909 --> 01:24:44,620
- I'll give her the shoes myself.
- No! Don't you touch them.
1042
01:24:44,788 --> 01:24:48,249
You can't give them to her now.
No one sees her before an opening.
1043
01:24:48,417 --> 01:24:51,419
MAN: Can you show us
where you want the shell?
1044
01:24:51,587 --> 01:24:55,840
I can't be everywhere at once.
Just move it on stage.
1045
01:24:57,176 --> 01:25:01,095
Will you please escort Mr. Andersen
to the stage door? Quietly but firmly.
1046
01:25:01,263 --> 01:25:03,639
HANS:
But I have these, ugh...
1047
01:25:03,807 --> 01:25:07,727
if you please, I'd like to leave alone.
1048
01:25:20,491 --> 01:25:22,700
[GIRLS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
1049
01:25:25,454 --> 01:25:29,999
You again! Don't you understand
this is no time to bother anybody?
1050
01:25:30,167 --> 01:25:33,002
Mademoiselle Doro
would not agree with you.
1051
01:25:33,170 --> 01:25:36,714
Oh, why am I plagued with authors
on opening nights?
1052
01:25:36,882 --> 01:25:41,010
- Overture in three minutes.
- In three minutes, we begin!
1053
01:25:41,178 --> 01:25:44,013
Ladies, take your places!
1054
01:25:49,186 --> 01:25:51,771
Open that door! Let me out of here!
1055
01:25:51,939 --> 01:25:53,356
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
1056
01:26:27,391 --> 01:26:29,475
HANS:
I can see it.
1057
01:26:30,435 --> 01:26:33,145
I don't have to see her with my eyes.
1058
01:26:33,313 --> 01:26:35,606
I can see it all.
1059
01:26:53,333 --> 01:26:56,919
[BALLET MUSIC PLAYING]
1060
01:27:57,356 --> 01:27:58,773
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
1061
01:41:31,836 --> 01:41:32,836
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]
1062
01:41:39,093 --> 01:41:41,219
DORO:
Come in!
1063
01:41:41,387 --> 01:41:44,389
- Good morning, madame.
DORO: Good morning, Celine.
1064
01:41:44,557 --> 01:41:48,852
- It's not a very nice day, I'm afraid.
- It looks lovely to me, Celine.
1065
01:41:49,020 --> 01:41:53,648
And how good it feels to be
back in my own room. It seems years.
1066
01:41:53,816 --> 01:41:57,444
That it does, and what
a wonderful success last night!
1067
01:41:57,612 --> 01:42:01,239
I can hardly ever remember
the audience being so excited.
1068
01:42:01,407 --> 01:42:04,576
It was the new ballet.
They were enchanted with it.
1069
01:42:04,744 --> 01:42:08,538
And it is enchanting. I love to dance it.
1070
01:42:08,706 --> 01:42:10,582
What a curious fellow he is.
1071
01:42:10,750 --> 01:42:13,877
- He never turned up at all.
- Who, madame?
1072
01:42:14,045 --> 01:42:17,672
Hans, the cobbler. You know?
1073
01:42:17,840 --> 01:42:22,803
I wonder if he was even there. Do you
suppose he was there and was too shy?
1074
01:42:22,970 --> 01:42:26,389
NIELS: Oh, good heavens!
DORO: I thought you were fast asleep.
1075
01:42:26,557 --> 01:42:31,478
- The cobbler's locked in the prop room!
DORO: What are you talking about?
1076
01:42:31,646 --> 01:42:35,148
I locked him up last night,
just before the performance. I had to.
1077
01:42:35,316 --> 01:42:40,570
He insisted on giving you some shoes
five minutes before the ballet began.
1078
01:42:40,738 --> 01:42:43,615
He never saw the ballet?
You kept him locked up?
1079
01:42:43,783 --> 01:42:46,409
- I forgot, I tell you.
- You big fool!
1080
01:42:46,577 --> 01:42:49,788
I had other things to think about just then!
1081
01:42:49,956 --> 01:42:54,000
Quickly, Celine. Go to the theater
and bring him back here.
1082
01:42:54,168 --> 01:42:56,253
That poor dear man!
1083
01:42:56,921 --> 01:43:01,007
And you, you monster,
you'd better stay under there.
1084
01:43:01,175 --> 01:43:04,094
Try popping your head out
and see what you get, heh.
1085
01:43:04,262 --> 01:43:07,347
- The lamp over it, I promise you!
- Oh, heh.
1086
01:43:07,515 --> 01:43:08,849
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
1087
01:43:11,686 --> 01:43:12,894
[DOOR OPENS]
1088
01:43:13,729 --> 01:43:15,814
Oh, Hans.
1089
01:43:15,982 --> 01:43:20,902
I shall call you Hans. What a dreadful
thing to have happened! Are you all right?
1090
01:43:21,070 --> 01:43:25,657
It's just like him to have done
such a thing. Come.
1091
01:43:25,825 --> 01:43:27,909
Sit down.
1092
01:43:28,077 --> 01:43:31,121
- Would you like a cup of chocolate?
- No, thank you.
1093
01:43:31,289 --> 01:43:35,584
You missed seeing the ballet.
We will do it again two nights from now...
1094
01:43:35,751 --> 01:43:37,335
...and you will see it then.
1095
01:43:37,503 --> 01:43:39,963
- But I did see the ballet.
- You did?
1096
01:43:40,131 --> 01:43:41,548
- Yes, heh.
- How?
1097
01:43:41,716 --> 01:43:45,260
- I thought you were--
- I was, but I could hear the music.
1098
01:43:45,428 --> 01:43:47,846
I knew the story the music was telling.
1099
01:43:48,014 --> 01:43:51,141
I didn't have to see you dance
with my eyes.
1100
01:43:51,309 --> 01:43:53,852
Oh, Hans, how very dear you are...
1101
01:43:54,020 --> 01:43:56,688
...and how I love to dance it.
1102
01:43:56,856 --> 01:43:59,816
I don't know quite why. It's very strange.
1103
01:43:59,984 --> 01:44:04,446
Even when we rehearsed it,
I felt something sad and tender.
1104
01:44:04,614 --> 01:44:08,575
- I don't know why.
- I know why.
1105
01:44:08,743 --> 01:44:10,285
- You do? Tell me.
- Mm-hm.
1106
01:44:11,704 --> 01:44:14,831
- I think it was your answer.
- My answer?
1107
01:44:14,999 --> 01:44:17,918
I let my heart speak to you
with the story, and...
1108
01:44:19,837 --> 01:44:23,548
Last night, you answered me with yours.
1109
01:44:24,425 --> 01:44:30,138
Hans, tell me something. How did you
come to write that story for me?
1110
01:44:31,057 --> 01:44:33,224
How else could I tell you how I felt?
1111
01:44:33,392 --> 01:44:36,311
That I knew how miserable
you were with him?
1112
01:44:36,479 --> 01:44:38,980
Miserable? With my husband?
1113
01:44:39,148 --> 01:44:44,069
Yes, uh, I don't think you knew I was there,
but I saw the way he treated you.
1114
01:44:44,236 --> 01:44:46,321
I saw him slap you.
1115
01:44:47,406 --> 01:44:49,199
I heard you cry.
1116
01:44:51,327 --> 01:44:53,495
Oh, Hans.
1117
01:44:54,664 --> 01:44:59,542
- How else could a cobbler speak to you?
- It's arrived, my darling. It's here!
1118
01:44:59,710 --> 01:45:04,464
Good morning, Andersen. Your present,
angel. My apologies for last night.
1119
01:45:04,632 --> 01:45:08,718
You must forgive me. It was your ballet
I was thinking of, not you.
1120
01:45:08,886 --> 01:45:14,182
Did you tell him what a great success
it was? For a great lady of the ballet.
1121
01:45:16,727 --> 01:45:22,857
Open it! We shall be poor for the next
year, but I had to have it for you.
1122
01:45:23,025 --> 01:45:27,070
The best part's on the other side.
Turn it over and read it.
1123
01:45:27,238 --> 01:45:30,448
Read it aloud. I'm not a poet like you,
Andersen...
1124
01:45:30,616 --> 01:45:34,703
...but once in a while,
even a fool like me can speak of love.
1125
01:45:34,870 --> 01:45:38,331
Are you pleased, my darling?
Read it for me.
1126
01:45:38,499 --> 01:45:41,167
Not now, Niels. Later.
1127
01:45:41,335 --> 01:45:45,839
Heh, you're not shy suddenly? Never mind.
You can do anything you wish.
1128
01:45:46,007 --> 01:45:49,801
She danced like an angel.
I could cover you with kisses.
1129
01:45:49,969 --> 01:45:52,262
Please don't, Niels.
1130
01:45:52,430 --> 01:45:55,515
Oh, haven't you forgiven me?
Andersen has, I'm sure.
1131
01:45:55,683 --> 01:45:59,227
Oh, she was furious at me for locking
you up, but no harm has been done.
1132
01:45:59,395 --> 01:46:03,648
Heh, it's even rather amusing.
Oh, heh, don't you look so stern, my dear.
1133
01:46:03,816 --> 01:46:06,067
You were laughing about it yourself.
1134
01:46:06,235 --> 01:46:10,488
Don't tell me I didn't hear you laughing,
I did. Heh, even under the covers.
1135
01:46:10,656 --> 01:46:14,284
- Be quiet.
- What's the matter with you, Doro?
1136
01:46:14,660 --> 01:46:19,372
Hans, it doesn't matter
why you wrote the story for me.
1137
01:46:19,540 --> 01:46:23,501
It's a beautiful story, whatever the reason.
1138
01:46:23,669 --> 01:46:26,629
It's a lovely and tender story by itself...
1139
01:46:26,797 --> 01:46:30,717
...but I shall remember what you told me
every time I dance it.
1140
01:46:32,553 --> 01:46:36,264
- Andersen, we haven't paid you for it.
- Niels, do be quiet.
1141
01:46:36,432 --> 01:46:39,267
We want to pay him, don't we?
We'd like you to write more for us.
1142
01:46:39,435 --> 01:46:45,065
- Have you any other stories we can use?
- No, um, that one was just an accident.
1143
01:46:45,816 --> 01:46:47,859
I don't think I'll be writing any more.
1144
01:46:49,570 --> 01:46:51,821
I guess it's all right to deliver these now.
1145
01:46:52,448 --> 01:46:55,158
Some shoes from the cobbler.
1146
01:46:55,326 --> 01:46:57,619
DORO:
Thank you, Hans.
1147
01:46:57,787 --> 01:47:03,208
NIELS: But, Andersen, I--
- Niels, let him go. Goodbye, Hans.
1148
01:47:12,051 --> 01:47:14,135
NIELS:
Doro...
1149
01:47:14,303 --> 01:47:17,555
Doro, what is it, my darling?
1150
01:47:56,178 --> 01:47:58,304
Peter!
1151
01:48:17,783 --> 01:48:19,868
Hello, Peter.
1152
01:48:24,665 --> 01:48:27,292
Do you mind if I walk along beside you?
1153
01:48:28,878 --> 01:48:30,128
[CHUCKLES]
1154
01:48:30,296 --> 01:48:32,380
I don't see how I can help it.
1155
01:48:32,548 --> 01:48:38,261
We both seem to be going in the same
direction, and there's only one road.
1156
01:48:41,974 --> 01:48:44,517
Are you going back to the village?
1157
01:48:48,439 --> 01:48:51,441
I'm going back to the village too.
1158
01:48:53,152 --> 01:48:57,030
Bread and butter!
And you know something, Peter?
1159
01:48:57,823 --> 01:49:02,035
I'm never telling another story,
not even to myself.
1160
01:49:02,203 --> 01:49:04,621
I've told my last story, Peter.
1161
01:49:04,788 --> 01:49:07,040
Especially to myself.
1162
01:49:07,208 --> 01:49:09,918
Cobbler, stick to your last.
1163
01:49:10,085 --> 01:49:14,005
If any man ever learned his lesson
and learned it good, it's me.
1164
01:49:15,341 --> 01:49:18,509
- I think you'll go on telling stories, huh.
- No, I won't.
1165
01:49:18,677 --> 01:49:20,470
- Oh, yes, you will.
- No, I won't.
1166
01:49:20,638 --> 01:49:22,513
Why do you keep on saying that?
1167
01:49:22,681 --> 01:49:25,600
Why? Because
you're Hans Christian Andersen.
1168
01:49:26,727 --> 01:49:29,020
That's why!
1169
01:49:30,147 --> 01:49:31,481
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
1170
01:49:31,649 --> 01:49:33,733
Peter!
1171
01:49:36,278 --> 01:49:39,614
PETER: You'll tell stories.
You'll write stories.
1172
01:49:39,782 --> 01:49:42,200
You'll even sing stories.
1173
01:49:42,368 --> 01:49:45,662
Over and over and over again.
1174
01:49:46,914 --> 01:49:48,414
[ALL CHEER]
1175
01:49:49,250 --> 01:49:52,627
[SINGING]
I'm not such an ugly duckling
1176
01:49:52,795 --> 01:49:55,713
No feathers all stubby and brown
1177
01:49:55,881 --> 01:49:58,800
For, in fact, these birds
In so many words
1178
01:49:58,968 --> 01:50:01,511
Said, "Tsk, the best in town
1179
01:50:01,679 --> 01:50:02,720
[ALL LAUGH]
1180
01:50:02,888 --> 01:50:05,265
Tsk, the best, tsk, tsk
The best..."
1181
01:50:05,432 --> 01:50:08,101
Remember your trip
to Copenhagen? Tell us about it!
1182
01:50:08,269 --> 01:50:09,477
ALL:
Yes!
1183
01:50:09,645 --> 01:50:14,274
Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
1184
01:50:14,441 --> 01:50:17,860
Friendly old girl of a town
1185
01:50:18,028 --> 01:50:19,988
'Neath her tavern light
1186
01:50:20,155 --> 01:50:26,828
On this merry night
Let us clink and drink one down
1187
01:50:26,996 --> 01:50:31,666
To wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
1188
01:50:32,167 --> 01:50:35,628
- Tell us about the king! The king!
ALL: Yes, the king!
1189
01:50:36,255 --> 01:50:39,299
The king is in the altogether
But altogether, the altogether
1190
01:50:39,466 --> 01:50:42,218
He's altogether as naked
As the day that he was born
1191
01:50:42,386 --> 01:50:45,555
The king is in the altogether
But altogether, the altogether
1192
01:50:45,723 --> 01:50:48,641
It's altogether the very least
The king has ever worn
1193
01:50:48,809 --> 01:50:52,145
[ALL SING INDISTINCTLY]
1194
01:50:52,313 --> 01:50:54,981
Hans! My favorite, huh?
1195
01:50:55,524 --> 01:50:56,983
Thumbelina!
1196
01:50:57,151 --> 01:50:58,359
[ALL CHEERING]
1197
01:50:59,778 --> 01:51:02,447
Though you're no bigger
Than my thumb
1198
01:51:02,614 --> 01:51:06,951
ALL: Than my thumb
- Than my thumb
1199
01:51:07,119 --> 01:51:10,747
- Sweet Thumbelina, don't be glum
ALL: Don't be glum
1200
01:51:10,914 --> 01:51:13,499
- Now, now, now
ALL: Eh, eh, eh. Come, come, come
1201
01:51:13,959 --> 01:51:15,168
HANS:
Everybody!
1202
01:51:15,336 --> 01:51:18,046
ALL: Thumbelina, Thumbelina
Tiny little thing
1203
01:51:18,547 --> 01:51:21,758
Thumbelina dance, Thumbelina sing
1204
01:51:21,925 --> 01:51:25,678
Thumbelina, what's the difference
if you're very small?
1205
01:51:25,846 --> 01:51:31,893
When your heart is full of love
You're 9 feet tall
1206
01:51:33,604 --> 01:51:36,856
Hans Christian Andersen
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