Le Roi et l'oiseau (1952)
Le Roi et l'oiseau (The King and the Mockingbird, sometimes rendered The King and the Mocking Bird, literally The King and the Bird) is a 1980 traditionally-animated feature film directed by Paul Grimault. Begun in 1948 as The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (loosely based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen), the film was a collaboration between Grimault and popular French poet and screenwriter, Jacques Prévert. However the film suddenly stopped production and was released unfinished by its producer, without the approval of either Grimault or Prévert. Through the course of the 1960s and 1970's, Grimault obtained the rights to the film and was able to complete a new version they originally intended and was finished over 30 years after it was started.
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