0:02:01 > 0:02:03DOG BARKS
0:02:06 > 0:02:08DOG WHINES
0:02:17 > 0:02:20Good morning, schoolmaster.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28< SCHOOL BELL GETS FASTER
0:02:32 > 0:02:34See the kite?
0:02:43 > 0:02:45LAUGHTER OF CHILDREN
0:02:59 > 0:03:02- Tell us a story. - Yeah, tell us a story!
0:03:13 > 0:03:15- Wait for me!- Well, hurry up!
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Walk faster.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21Thank you.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23Next time, don't be late.
0:03:23 > 0:03:29Do you remember Latoda was the wicked mermaid, the Princess of the Frozen Seas?
0:03:29 > 0:03:32- CHILDREN: Yes. - Today, as I promised -
0:03:32 > 0:03:36because we always keep promises, don't we? -
0:03:36 > 0:03:40- today, as I said, will be the... - CHILDREN: Queen of China!
0:03:40 > 0:03:45Oh, did anyone remember to bring a dress for the Queen of China?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47CHILDREN ARGUE
0:03:47 > 0:03:52All right. Please. Please, ladies and gentlemen.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55If we can't have a queen, we'll have a king.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59We'll take the crown and put it on the side.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01He was a very jaunty little king.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Now we'll just...
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Ah-ah!
0:04:05 > 0:04:09- No peeping. - CHILDREN GROAN
0:04:09 > 0:04:11There we are.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Long live the king.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Long live the king!
0:04:15 > 0:04:20It's not a king. It's only a queen with a moustache.
0:04:20 > 0:04:25Tom, you'd be surprised how many kings are queens with a moustache.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29- But we know it's a king, don't we? - CHILDREN: Yes.
0:04:29 > 0:04:35As we have no clothes for him, this story is about a king who had no clothes
0:04:35 > 0:04:39and a boy who only believed what he saw.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41CHILDREN: That's you.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46One day, two swindlers came to the king
0:04:46 > 0:04:50to sell him what they said was a magic suit of clothes.
0:04:50 > 0:04:55The king was very fond of new clothes so he said, "Let me see it."
0:04:55 > 0:04:58But there wasn't any suit.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01The swindlers held up their hands and said,
0:05:01 > 0:05:03"This is a magic suit.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07"And you being wise and intelligent can see how lovely it is.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11"To a fool, it is absolutely invisible."
0:05:13 > 0:05:17He said, "I see." Not wanting to appear a fool, he added,
0:05:17 > 0:05:20"Yes, indeed. I see it perfectly.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22"It's beautiful.
0:05:22 > 0:05:27"Isn't it grand? Isn't it fine? Look at the cut and style and line."
0:05:27 > 0:05:30# The suit of clothes is altogether, but altogether, it's altogether
0:05:30 > 0:05:34# The most remarkable suit of clothes that I have ever seen
0:05:34 > 0:05:37# These eyes of mine that once determined the sleeves are velvet, the cape is ermine
0:05:37 > 0:05:40# The hose are blue and the doublet is a lovely shade of green
0:05:40 > 0:05:42# A lovely shade of green
0:05:42 > 0:05:45# Somebody sent for the queen. #
0:05:45 > 0:05:47And the queen came and she was told
0:05:47 > 0:05:51how all the wise people could see the...
0:05:51 > 0:05:54- Magic suit!- That's right.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Naturally, not wanting to appear a fool, she said,
0:05:57 > 0:06:03"Oh! Isn't it grand? Isn't it rich? Look at the charm of every stitch."
0:06:03 > 0:06:06# The suit of clothes is altogether, but altogether, it's altogether
0:06:06 > 0:06:10# The most remarkable suit of clothes that I have ever seen
0:06:10 > 0:06:13# These eyes of mine that once determined the sleeves are velvet, the cape is ermine
0:06:13 > 0:06:17# The hose are blue and the doublet is a lovely shade of green
0:06:17 > 0:06:18# A lovely shade of green
0:06:18 > 0:06:21# He summoned the court to convene. #
0:06:21 > 0:06:24All the court came and the ministers came.
0:06:24 > 0:06:29- Not wanting to seem fools, they agreed with the... - King and queen!
0:06:29 > 0:06:33So the king issued a proclamation, as follows.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Ahem!
0:06:35 > 0:06:39# The suit of clothes is altogether, but altogether, it's altogether
0:06:39 > 0:06:42# The most remarkable suit of clothes a tailor ever made
0:06:42 > 0:06:46# Now, quickly, put it altogether with gloves of leather and hat and feather
0:06:46 > 0:06:49# It's altogether the thing to wear at Saturday's parade
0:06:49 > 0:06:51# Saturday's parade!
0:06:51 > 0:06:53# Leading the royal brigade. #
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Well, by this time,
0:06:55 > 0:07:00everyone had heard the king would be wearing new clothes on Saturday.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03They lined the streets as the artillery came by,
0:07:03 > 0:07:08and the infantry came by and the cavalry came by and the royal guard.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11And finally, the king.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14And everybody cheered, "Hooray!"
0:07:14 > 0:07:16CHILDREN: Hooray!
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Because nobody wanted to appear a fool.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Nobody, that is, except for one little boy
0:07:22 > 0:07:26who hadn't heard about the king's new magic suit
0:07:26 > 0:07:29and didn't know what he was supposed to see.
0:07:29 > 0:07:34He took one look at the king, turned a little pale and said,
0:07:34 > 0:07:39"Look at the king. Look at the king. The king, the king, the king!"
0:07:39 > 0:07:43# The king is in the altogether, but altogether, the altogether
0:07:43 > 0:07:45# He's altogether as naked as the day that he was born
0:07:45 > 0:07:49# The king is in the altogether, but altogether, the altogether
0:07:49 > 0:07:53# It's altogether the very least the king has ever worn
0:07:53 > 0:07:56# Call the court physician! Call an intermission!
0:07:56 > 0:08:00# His Majesty is wide open to ridicule and scorn
0:08:00 > 0:08:02# The king is in the altogether, but altogether, the altogether
0:08:02 > 0:08:06# He's altogether as naked as the day that he was born
0:08:06 > 0:08:11# And it's altogether too chilly a morn! #
0:08:11 > 0:08:14CHILDREN CHEER
0:08:14 > 0:08:16< Hans!
0:08:16 > 0:08:20- Hans!- Hurry, Peter, we're going to hear a story.
0:08:20 > 0:08:27- Hans, the schoolmaster went to the burgomaster... - Peter, don't worry so much.
0:08:27 > 0:08:32But, Hans, they're coming - the schoolmaster and burgomaster. Look!
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Morning, burgomaster.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47Look, burgomaster. The books on the dirty ground.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Here. The History Of Denmark,
0:08:50 > 0:08:53used to tie the string of a kite.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57The history of any country can stand some fresh air.
0:08:57 > 0:09:03Did you hear of the history book that took a holiday? It came back a better history.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER IS SILENCED You see?
0:09:06 > 0:09:10That's the stuff he fills their heads with. Look at this.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13"Arithmetic. A two met a four one day.
0:09:13 > 0:09:19"They liked each other, got married and the other numbers came to their wedding."
0:09:19 > 0:09:22You see, burgomaster? It's impossible.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24There are different ways to learn.
0:09:24 > 0:09:30A cobbler belongs in his shop and children belong in school. Tend to your shoes!
0:09:30 > 0:09:32To be sure.
0:09:32 > 0:09:38But is the world made up of nothing else but shoes and school rooms?
0:09:39 > 0:09:43There's a story of a piece of chalk and a blackboard.
0:09:43 > 0:09:47For many years, the piece of chalk had written so many things
0:09:47 > 0:09:50it began to believe it knew everything.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53This made the blackboard angry because she felt
0:09:53 > 0:09:59without her to write on, no-one would know anything - and she knew it all.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01One day, quite by accident,
0:10:01 > 0:10:05the schoolmaster broke the chalk and tossed it away.
0:10:05 > 0:10:09It fell right beside a pencil the chalk had always admired.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13Because a pencil to a piece of chalk is very special.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15What do you suppose happened?
0:10:15 > 0:10:17What happened?
0:10:17 > 0:10:20What is this? >
0:10:20 > 0:10:24Have we lost our senses, listening to his stories with the children?
0:10:24 > 0:10:27That will be enough, Hans.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31Children, pick up your books and go back to school.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Follow the schoolmaster. Not another word.
0:10:43 > 0:10:47I advise you, Hans, to stay in your shop from now on.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Stop shaking your head like an old woman.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02- I can feel it in the back of my neck.- Hans, turn around.
0:11:02 > 0:11:07- We've got to talk.- Did you hear the story of the old woman
0:11:07 > 0:11:11who shook her head at the family so much that it fell off?
0:11:11 > 0:11:15- Hans, why do you keep on making trouble?- Trouble?
0:11:15 > 0:11:19There's no trouble a good story can't get us out of.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23- But Hans...- Like the one about the chalk and the blackboard.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27I didn't know what I was going to say till after I said it.
0:11:27 > 0:11:32- I'd like to know how the story ends, too.- Please stay in the shop.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37- Please don't tell stories all the time.- I never saw such a worrier.
0:11:37 > 0:11:41But I'll give you something to worry about.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Two years ago, I took you out of the orphanage
0:11:44 > 0:11:48and promised them I'd make you into a good cobbler.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52Look at that shoe. Glue all smeared and nails crooked.
0:11:52 > 0:11:57Two years an apprentice and still the nails go in crooked.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01I'm not really that bad, am I?
0:12:01 > 0:12:06- You're not going to send me back to the orphanage?- A-ha! A new worry.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Never mind, Peter, let's go home.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32CHILDREN SING: # Two and two are four
0:12:32 > 0:12:37# Four and four are eight
0:12:37 > 0:12:41# Eight and eight are sixteen
0:12:41 > 0:12:45# Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two
0:12:45 > 0:12:49# Two and two are four
0:12:49 > 0:12:53# Four and four are eight
0:12:53 > 0:12:57# Eight and eight are sixteen
0:12:57 > 0:13:01# Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two... #
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Look, an inchworm. The first one of the year!
0:13:06 > 0:13:09# ..Four and four are eight
0:13:09 > 0:13:14# Eight and eight are sixteen
0:13:14 > 0:13:18# Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two... #
0:13:19 > 0:13:23- SINGS TO SAME TUNE: - # Inchworm, inchworm
0:13:24 > 0:13:29# Measuring the marigolds
0:13:30 > 0:13:33# You and your arithmetic
0:13:34 > 0:13:38# You'll probably go far
0:13:40 > 0:13:44# Inchworm, inchworm
0:13:44 > 0:13:49# Measuring the marigolds
0:13:50 > 0:13:54# Seems to me you'd stop and see
0:13:55 > 0:13:59# How beautiful they are
0:14:00 > 0:14:05# Two and two are four
0:14:05 > 0:14:10# Four and four are eight
0:14:10 > 0:14:15# Eight and eight are sixteen
0:14:15 > 0:14:19# Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two... #
0:14:22 > 0:14:24SCHOOL BELL
0:14:30 > 0:14:32HE SHAKES IT MORE VIGOROUSLY
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Good morning, schoolmaster.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Oh, Hans.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56- Let me explain.- Out of my way!
0:15:05 > 0:15:08That's what I want. Take your choice.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Either Hans Christian leaves the town or I do.
0:15:11 > 0:15:16Now, surely, schoolmaster, a little story now and then...
0:15:16 > 0:15:19It is not just now and then. It's every day.
0:15:19 > 0:15:24He gives them excuses - the Snow Queen took me to the Mountain King!
0:15:24 > 0:15:27- You think they make that up? - That's true.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30I asked my Gerda what time it was.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34She said the minute and hour hands were not speaking.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37They were both in love with the second hand
0:15:37 > 0:15:42and wouldn't make up till they met at 12 so no-one could tell the time.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Say, I like that.
0:15:44 > 0:15:49Like it?! We pay our taxes for the school, not for Hans' foolishness.
0:15:49 > 0:15:55- MURMURS OF AGREEMENT - His stories are good. The children learn from them.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59I would like to go now, burgomaster, I'd like to pack up tonight,
0:15:59 > 0:16:03because you either want a new cobbler or a new teacher.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05MURMURING
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Gentlemen...
0:16:17 > 0:16:19It is decided.
0:16:19 > 0:16:24- The cobbler must leave.- But sir... - Quiet! I'll tell Hans myself.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27It will not be pleasant but it has to be done.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31Perhaps it's for the best. Tell Hans to wait in the shop.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35I'll talk to him before supper. Come, gentlemen.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05- Hello, Hans.- Hello, Peter.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08- Was it nice by the river? - Oh, just perfect.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10Did we have any customers today?
0:17:10 > 0:17:14Not one. Business gets slower and slower.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20Why don't we go to a larger city where shoes wear out faster?
0:17:20 > 0:17:23And be stuck in the shop all day? No, sir.
0:17:23 > 0:17:28I like business to be slow. There's time enough for everything here.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32That's what I mean. No shoes wear out, no-one leaves.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36Not one person here has been to Copenhagen, have they?
0:17:36 > 0:17:39That's true, but why should they?
0:17:39 > 0:17:42- I never think about Copenhagen. Do you?- Do I!
0:17:42 > 0:17:45What do you suppose it's like?
0:17:47 > 0:17:50It's a funny thing, now that you mention it.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53I used to think about Copenhagen a lot.
0:17:53 > 0:17:57I used to make up wonderful stories about going there.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00I'd think about it a lot when I was your age.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04My husband's shoes hurt and the left one doesn't fit.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07That's not too bad, Mrs Berther.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09You know,
0:18:09 > 0:18:12I think shoes have a life of their own.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Those that squeak don't like to leave the shop.
0:18:15 > 0:18:20- The ones that hurt don't like their owner.- Please just fix the shoes.
0:18:20 > 0:18:26I've got my own life to worry about. When Mr Berther's feet hurt, he drives us crazy.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31Hans, tell me. What stories did you make up about Copenhagen?
0:18:31 > 0:18:33Oh...
0:18:33 > 0:18:38I used to dream about having the finest cobbler's shop in Copenhagen.
0:18:38 > 0:18:43I wasn't just an ordinary cobbler. I saw people by appointment.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46I looked at them before their shoes.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48If I didn't like them, no shoes.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50Do you know that people...
0:18:50 > 0:18:55Where are you going? Don't you want to hear the rest?
0:18:57 > 0:19:00- What have you got there? - Your bag, Hans.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03- My bag?! - Why don't you go to Copenhagen now?
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Are you crazy, Peter?
0:19:05 > 0:19:10That was a story. Didn't you understand that?
0:19:10 > 0:19:14Of course. But part of it must be like you imagined.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18There may be great carriages with fine horses, beautiful houses.
0:19:18 > 0:19:23- Yes, Peter...- Don't you want to see it for yourself? It's not so far.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26All you have to do is walk out of that door.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29Quick! Before you change your mind.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Before I change my mind? Who said I was going?
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Just like that, this afternoon?
0:19:35 > 0:19:37What's got into you, Peter?
0:19:37 > 0:19:43You forgot about Copenhagen. You may forget again until you're too old to go.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48No, some day I'm really going to Copenhagen. That I do know.
0:19:48 > 0:19:53Has anyone from this village gone to Copenhagen before? Of course not.
0:19:53 > 0:19:58They say so but they put it off. Imagine, you'll be the first.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02What a to-do there'll be tomorrow. They'll talk of it.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04"Hans has gone to Copenhagen."
0:20:07 > 0:20:09"Hans has gone to Copenhagen."
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Yes!
0:20:16 > 0:20:19What a sign it would make on the door.
0:20:19 > 0:20:24"Hans Andersen gone to Copenhagen." With little shoes pointing the way.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27We'll make the sign tonight. Imagine their faces.
0:20:27 > 0:20:33I see it exactly as you do. Goodbye, Hans. Aren't you excited?
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Excited? You mean I really should go?
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Why not? It's only a few days away.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41Stay a little while and then come back.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45- You'll have been to Copenhagen. - But it's a big step.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47Still, what's to stop me?
0:20:48 > 0:20:51My goodness, I am getting excited.
0:20:51 > 0:20:57- Hans!- If anyone had told me this morning that I'd decide to go to Copenhagen...
0:20:57 > 0:21:00- Start walking, Hans.- Imagine, Peter.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04I've decided to go to Copenhagen. Just like that.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06- Goodbye, Hans.- Goodbye, Peter.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Goodbye, Peter.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12Take care. I'll only be gone a few days.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14- Tell the children goodbye.- I will.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17Imagine, Peter. Copenhagen.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Goodbye, Peter.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38BIRD SONG
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Hello. Ruff, ruff!
0:21:53 > 0:21:56Oh, my goodness. My feet hurt.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04I cannot understand why these shoes hurt me so.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06I made them myself.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09You're lucky. You don't have to wear shoes.
0:22:09 > 0:22:15I can never understand why people always say "A dog's life."
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Every dog I know seems to have a very nice life indeed.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23You've no idea. Maybe it's just as good you don't...
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Back in the village,
0:22:25 > 0:22:28if people saw me talking to you like this,
0:22:28 > 0:22:31do you know what would happen?
0:22:31 > 0:22:35Every head would shake for a week. Yet how pleasant this is.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38I can say anything I want to.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41There's no sound but the wag of your tail.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46People do the strangest things, too.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50Oh, yes, my friend, even me. Myself included.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52For instance, if you were to ask me
0:22:52 > 0:22:56what I was doing on the road to Copenhagen,
0:22:56 > 0:22:58I couldn't tell you.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00I was trying to figure it out.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03What Peter said, what I said.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Suddenly, I'm on the road to Copenhagen.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08You know something else, my friend?
0:23:08 > 0:23:11I'm a little bit frightened.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Copenhagen is a very big place.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Still, what can happen, huh?
0:23:20 > 0:23:22People are nice.
0:23:22 > 0:23:26That's the nice thing about the world, my friend. People.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30So, what can happen?
0:23:30 > 0:23:35I walk through the city gates up to the first person I meet and say,
0:23:35 > 0:23:38"Hello. I'm Hans Christian Andersen."
0:23:40 > 0:23:43I'll walk through the gates and say,
0:23:43 > 0:23:45"I'm Hans Christian Andersen."
0:23:46 > 0:23:49# I'm Hans Christian Andersen
0:23:49 > 0:23:51# I've many a tale to tell
0:23:51 > 0:23:55# And though I'm a cobbler I'd say I tell them rather well
0:23:55 > 0:23:59# I'll mend your shoes and I'll fix your boots when I have a moment free
0:23:59 > 0:24:01# When I'm not otherwise occupied
0:24:01 > 0:24:05# As a purple duck or a mountainside or a quarter after three
0:24:05 > 0:24:09# I'm Hans Christian Andersen, that's me... #
0:24:09 > 0:24:11HANS WHISTLES THE TUNE
0:24:13 > 0:24:15# I'm Hans Christian Andersen
0:24:15 > 0:24:17# And this is an April day
0:24:17 > 0:24:20# It's full of the magic I need to speed me on my way
0:24:20 > 0:24:22# My pocket book has an empty look
0:24:22 > 0:24:24# I limp on a lumpy shoe
0:24:24 > 0:24:30# So I turn into a flying fish or a millionaire with a rocking chair and a dumpling in my stew
0:24:30 > 0:24:32# I'm Hans Christian Andersen
0:24:32 > 0:24:34# Andersen, that's who. #
0:24:34 > 0:24:36< Hans!
0:24:36 > 0:24:38< HANS!
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Peter!
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Peter, what are you doing here?
0:24:53 > 0:24:56You've got the whole shop on wheels.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Copenhagen sounded so wonderful,
0:24:59 > 0:25:02I thought you wouldn't come back for a while.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Maybe for a long while.
0:25:04 > 0:25:08So I thought maybe you'd need the shop.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Sometimes you put ideas in my head that aren't there.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13Me? Oh, no, Hans.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18I'm not sure I shouldn't send you back right now.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20- But Hans...- Still,
0:25:20 > 0:25:23as long as you've come this far...
0:25:23 > 0:25:25HANS LAUGHS
0:25:36 > 0:25:39# I sail up the Skagerrak
0:25:39 > 0:25:42# And sail down the Kattegat
0:25:42 > 0:25:46# Through the harbour and up to the cave
0:25:46 > 0:25:49# And there she stands
0:25:49 > 0:25:53# Waiting for me
0:25:53 > 0:25:57# With a welcome so warm and so gay
0:25:59 > 0:26:04# Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
0:26:04 > 0:26:09# Friendly old girl of a town
0:26:09 > 0:26:12# 'Neath her tavern light
0:26:12 > 0:26:14# On this merry night
0:26:14 > 0:26:16# Let us clink
0:26:16 > 0:26:20# And drink one down
0:26:20 > 0:26:26# To wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
0:26:26 > 0:26:31# Salty old queen of the sea
0:26:31 > 0:26:34# Once I sailed away
0:26:34 > 0:26:36# But I'm home today
0:26:36 > 0:26:40# Singing Copenhagen
0:26:40 > 0:26:46# Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen for me. #
0:26:46 > 0:26:48There she is.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00# Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
0:27:00 > 0:27:04# Friendly old girl of a town
0:27:04 > 0:27:06# 'Neath her tavern light
0:27:06 > 0:27:08# On this merry night
0:27:08 > 0:27:13# Let us clink and drink one down
0:27:13 > 0:27:17# To wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
0:27:17 > 0:27:21# Salty old queen of the sea
0:27:21 > 0:27:23# Once I sailed away
0:27:23 > 0:27:25# But I'm home today
0:27:25 > 0:27:28# Singing Copenhagen
0:27:28 > 0:27:34# Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen for me. #
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0:27:58 > 0:28:01# Matches! Matches! #
0:28:01 > 0:28:03Bric-a-brac! >
0:28:03 > 0:28:05Bric-a-brac!
0:28:06 > 0:28:11# Nice red roses
0:28:11 > 0:28:13# Nice red roses. #
0:28:20 > 0:28:23# Pots and pans, pots and pans. #
0:28:23 > 0:28:25# Chimney sweep
0:28:27 > 0:28:32# Sweep your chimney! #
0:28:59 > 0:29:03# Bass! Bass! Buy bass!
0:29:03 > 0:29:05# Nice fresh clams
0:29:05 > 0:29:08# Fish!
0:29:08 > 0:29:10# Fresh fish!
0:29:14 > 0:29:17# Buy rhubarb! Rhubarb!
0:29:17 > 0:29:19# Sausages, sausages!
0:29:19 > 0:29:22# Sausages, sausages!
0:29:22 > 0:29:24# Sausages, sausages!
0:29:25 > 0:29:27# Rhubarb!
0:29:28 > 0:29:30# Lemon flowers
0:29:31 > 0:29:34# Butter and eggs here
0:29:35 > 0:29:38# Cheese Butter and eggs here
0:29:38 > 0:29:41- # Buy your bread from Bertha. # - Can I have half a loaf?
0:29:41 > 0:29:43Five schillings.
0:29:45 > 0:29:47Hans, why don't we set up shop here?
0:29:50 > 0:29:53Here? Well, what are we waiting for?
0:30:05 > 0:30:07# I'm Hans Christian Andersen
0:30:07 > 0:30:09# The pride of the cobbler's trade
0:30:09 > 0:30:13# Permit me to show you a great discovery I've made
0:30:13 > 0:30:15# A shoe goes squeak and a shoe goes squawk
0:30:15 > 0:30:17# Squeakety-squawk all day
0:30:17 > 0:30:19# And though you'd figure a shoe can't talk
0:30:19 > 0:30:23# If you listen close to the squeak and squawk You can plainly hear it say
0:30:23 > 0:30:27# Let Hans Christian Andersen fix me right away
0:30:29 > 0:30:33# In Hans Christian Andersen, your feet have a loyal friend
0:30:33 > 0:30:37# The sort of a doctor I'm sure your toes would recommend
0:30:37 > 0:30:41# I work all night for shoes too tight to see where the pinch comes from
0:30:41 > 0:30:43# I raise my hammer and shut one eye
0:30:43 > 0:30:47# And I sometimes hit on the reason why and I sometimes hit my thumb...
0:30:47 > 0:30:51- What's your name? - # I'm Hans Christian Andersen. #
0:30:51 > 0:30:53Thank you. You're under arrest.
0:30:53 > 0:30:58- Under arrest?- Disrespect for the king's statue. Get that boy.
0:31:05 > 0:31:07Run, Peter!
0:31:43 > 0:31:47- Do you want the new ballet ready? - I do.- Then do as I say.
0:31:47 > 0:31:50Now, quick. You heard what she and I said.
0:31:50 > 0:31:55- Niels, be sensible. I want the ballet...- Fine, argue with me.
0:31:55 > 0:32:00- I'm not arguing.- I'll get a cobbler and you can teach the ballet.
0:32:00 > 0:32:04Why is it so important to have a cobbler now?
0:32:04 > 0:32:10Because your ballerina is so pig-headed, I must make an example of her.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13Why do you always use that perfume?
0:32:13 > 0:32:16- Sir...- Go away! - She won't get away with it.
0:32:16 > 0:32:20- I know her far better than you do. - You know her...
0:32:20 > 0:32:24Otto, you're wasting time. The ballet is half-finished.
0:32:24 > 0:32:27No cobbler, no ballet. I guarantee it, Otto.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32- I know where to get a cobbler, sir. - What's that?
0:32:32 > 0:32:36I know where you can get a cobbler this very minute.
0:32:36 > 0:32:39- Where?- You'll have to use a little influence.
0:32:39 > 0:32:42- Influence?- With the police.
0:32:42 > 0:32:46We should hurry, sir. I know where one is sitting right now.
0:33:04 > 0:33:06Hello.
0:33:06 > 0:33:08Hello.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10- Hello!- Hello.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13Are you alone in there?
0:33:13 > 0:33:15Well, er...in a way, yes.
0:33:15 > 0:33:18Are you scared?
0:33:18 > 0:33:20- Hmmm?- Are you scared?
0:33:20 > 0:33:22Scared? No.
0:33:22 > 0:33:26Nobody's ever really alone. Did you know that?
0:33:26 > 0:33:30I'm expecting company right now. Shall I introduce you?
0:33:30 > 0:33:34Are you sure? Positive? Absolutely sure?
0:33:34 > 0:33:36Don't go away.
0:33:54 > 0:33:58- There.- Oh!
0:33:58 > 0:34:01Isn't she pretty? Her name is Thumbelina.
0:34:01 > 0:34:05Say hello, Thumbelina. Now you say hello to her.
0:34:05 > 0:34:07Hello.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11Oh, she's very unhappy.
0:34:11 > 0:34:14What's the matter?
0:34:14 > 0:34:17Are you unhappy because you're so little?
0:34:17 > 0:34:22That's nothing to make such a sad face about, is it? Here, come on.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25# Though you're no bigger than my thumb
0:34:26 > 0:34:28# Than my thumb
0:34:28 > 0:34:29# Than my thumb
0:34:29 > 0:34:32# Sweet Thumbelina, don't be glum
0:34:32 > 0:34:34# Now, now, now
0:34:34 > 0:34:37# Uh-uh-uh, come, come, come
0:34:37 > 0:34:41# Thumbelina, Thumbelina, tiny little thing
0:34:41 > 0:34:44# Thumbelina, dance, Thumbelina, sing
0:34:44 > 0:34:48# Oh, Thumbelina, what's the difference if you're very small?
0:34:48 > 0:34:52# When your heart is full of love, you're nine feet tall. #
0:34:52 > 0:34:55She's still unhappy. What's the matter, Thumby?
0:34:55 > 0:34:59Would you like a little playmate? You would?
0:34:59 > 0:35:01There.
0:35:01 > 0:35:04Say "How do you do?" How do you do? Want a kiss?
0:35:04 > 0:35:07Maybe you'd like to dance?
0:35:07 > 0:35:09You would? Here we go.
0:35:09 > 0:35:13# Thumbelina, Thumbelina, tiny little thing
0:35:13 > 0:35:15# Thumbelina, dance
0:35:15 > 0:35:17# Thumbelina, sing
0:35:17 > 0:35:20# Thumbelina, what's the difference if you're very small?
0:35:20 > 0:35:26# When your heart is full of love, you're nine feet tall. #
0:35:29 > 0:35:31Open up. >
0:35:33 > 0:35:35- Hans!- Peter!
0:35:36 > 0:35:40- What are you doing here? - You're a cobbler?- Yes.
0:35:40 > 0:35:44Hurry. You are in the custody of The Royal Danish Ballet.
0:35:46 > 0:35:51- What am I in the custody of?- Ssh! You're out. That's the main thing.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53- They didn't treat you badly? - No, Peter.
0:35:53 > 0:35:58- Where's your coat?- Here. Where are we going? Who is that?
0:35:58 > 0:36:03- What are you standing there for? - Come on, we've got our first job.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:36:05 > 0:36:07Straight! Straight!
0:36:07 > 0:36:09Straight! Straight!
0:36:09 > 0:36:11Keep the line straight!
0:36:12 > 0:36:15Up! Up!
0:36:15 > 0:36:18Good! Good!
0:36:59 > 0:37:03- This is the most... - Ssh! It's the dress rehearsal.
0:39:48 > 0:39:52MUSIC STOPS All right! All right!
0:39:54 > 0:39:56We'll do it all again.
0:39:56 > 0:39:59Ladies, the pirouettes were impossible.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02Gentlemen, the lifts have to be high.
0:40:02 > 0:40:06The ballerina's performance, I won't discuss - it would take hours.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09We'll do the entire thing again.
0:40:09 > 0:40:13Not with these shoes, darling. I told you before, remember?
0:40:15 > 0:40:17Stop. Everything stop.
0:40:17 > 0:40:20Is the cobbler here yet?
0:40:20 > 0:40:22Here I am.
0:40:22 > 0:40:25Come up here, cobbler.
0:40:25 > 0:40:27Come on! Hurry up!
0:40:35 > 0:40:39Cobbler, this...lady will explain what she wants you to do.
0:40:39 > 0:40:45It's a trifle complicated. But then she's no ordinary dancer.
0:40:45 > 0:40:49Of all the dancers in Denmark, only she can't follow my steps
0:40:49 > 0:40:53without shoes that exist only in her mind.
0:40:53 > 0:40:58She may enlighten you because we can't understand so great a ballerina(!)
0:40:58 > 0:41:02We must only bow to her every wish.
0:41:02 > 0:41:05Not quite low enough, my dear. Come, sir.
0:41:05 > 0:41:08We can talk more quietly over there, I think.
0:41:12 > 0:41:14Lunch, everybody!
0:41:14 > 0:41:16CHATTERING
0:41:18 > 0:41:21You've seen the ballet when I make a jete?
0:41:21 > 0:41:23You know, when I jump.
0:41:23 > 0:41:26I want to rise and remain motionless
0:41:26 > 0:41:29as though I was on nothing but air.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33It is impossible with these shoes.
0:41:33 > 0:41:38But if you could put something in the tip of each one, I could do it.
0:41:38 > 0:41:41In spite of that unkind man.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44I would so love to show him it is not impossible.
0:41:46 > 0:41:49It is possible, isn't it? Could you do it?
0:41:49 > 0:41:51Er, yes.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53Yes, I can do it.
0:41:53 > 0:41:55I'll find something.
0:41:55 > 0:41:58Something soft and silent.
0:41:58 > 0:42:03- I can do it. You could seem to stand on air.- You have it!
0:42:03 > 0:42:06I can see you have the idea perfectly.
0:42:06 > 0:42:09I shall be so grateful to you.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11- There, can you do it now?- Yes.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14Quickly? It would be such a service.
0:42:14 > 0:42:17I would be forever grateful. Thank you.
0:42:17 > 0:42:20Louise! My slippers!
0:42:24 > 0:42:26No, you come out this way. >
0:42:28 > 0:42:30Hans!
0:42:30 > 0:42:33You were a long time.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35Have we got a job?
0:42:35 > 0:42:37- What are you holding, Hans? - Slippers.
0:42:37 > 0:42:42Slippers? I never saw slippers like that before. Who wears them?
0:42:42 > 0:42:46- The loveliest lady ever. - Why does she wear these shoes?
0:42:46 > 0:42:49She dances, Peter. No, she floats.
0:42:49 > 0:42:53When she smiles, your heart skips a beat and melts.
0:42:53 > 0:42:57She smiled and came close to me. She even touched me.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00- Where's the barrow, Peter? - Right over here.
0:43:03 > 0:43:05I hid it in the theatre storeroom.
0:43:05 > 0:43:08She wants shoes that will walk on air, Peter.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11This afternoon. Well, she'll have them.
0:43:13 > 0:43:16I wish she'd asked me something really impossible.
0:43:30 > 0:43:32Doro,
0:43:32 > 0:43:34are you hungry?
0:43:37 > 0:43:39Do you love me?
0:43:39 > 0:43:42Yes. Yes, even half-starved, I love you.
0:43:44 > 0:43:46Come.
0:43:46 > 0:43:49Here, sit down.
0:43:49 > 0:43:52Here. A sip of this to put you in a better temper.
0:43:52 > 0:43:54And look.
0:43:54 > 0:43:58I asked Helga to make this specially for you today.
0:43:58 > 0:44:01Was I cruel today?
0:44:01 > 0:44:03Oh, you were.
0:44:03 > 0:44:05You were indeed.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07I was almost in tears.
0:44:07 > 0:44:09Doro, I'm sorry.
0:44:09 > 0:44:11Niels, don't be sorry.
0:44:11 > 0:44:15It's just how it should be, don't you see that?
0:44:15 > 0:44:18Professionally, we fight like two tigers.
0:44:18 > 0:44:23But afterwards... That's what makes it so good afterwards.
0:44:25 > 0:44:27- Isn't it good now? - Oh, it's wonderful.
0:44:27 > 0:44:32Why do I forget that the minute you start to dance?
0:44:32 > 0:44:35Then I see only my enemy, the ballerina, before me.
0:44:35 > 0:44:39Because the ballet is your life, as it is mine.
0:44:39 > 0:44:43Don't you think I sometimes forget that you are my husband
0:44:43 > 0:44:47and want to kill you for the things you say?
0:44:47 > 0:44:50- You really want to kill me? - Of course I do.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52That's as it should be.
0:44:52 > 0:44:55I would hate it any other way, wouldn't you?
0:44:56 > 0:44:58Oh, yes, we are lucky.
0:44:58 > 0:45:00And I do love you so.
0:45:11 > 0:45:14I'm sorry about the shoes, darling.
0:45:14 > 0:45:18I will behave beautifully this afternoon. You will see.
0:45:18 > 0:45:21- Sorry? - There was nothing wrong with them.
0:45:23 > 0:45:25I just did that to torment you.
0:45:25 > 0:45:27Oh, you did?
0:45:27 > 0:45:31I know exactly how to torment you, don't I, darling?
0:45:31 > 0:45:36And you look so wonderfully poetic when you are in a rage, my dear.
0:45:36 > 0:45:38Never mind how I look.
0:45:38 > 0:45:42So you just made that up about the shoes?
0:45:42 > 0:45:44But you were being terrible.
0:45:44 > 0:45:49You let everyone sit and twiddle their thumbs while you took revenge.
0:45:49 > 0:45:53You forget what you said in front of the entire company.
0:45:53 > 0:45:58No, I don't. I remember every word of it. I was right.
0:45:58 > 0:46:02- You were?- If you've done stuffing yourself, I'll say it again.
0:46:02 > 0:46:06Because lunch is over and we're back in rehearsal.
0:46:06 > 0:46:10You danced the waltz like an elephant in a snow drift.
0:46:10 > 0:46:13- What did you say?- I said,
0:46:13 > 0:46:18you danced the waltz like an elephant in a snow drift!
0:46:18 > 0:46:23No, like an elephant who fell and was trying to get up. You hear me?
0:46:23 > 0:46:28How dare you! I slave to make each step you give me just right.
0:46:28 > 0:46:33I take your foolish little dance steps and make them acceptable.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36You don't slave hard enough, my girl.
0:46:36 > 0:46:42- Pick your feet up to the music.- You are not just cruel, but heartless.
0:46:42 > 0:46:47You love to say cruel things to me. You want me to grovel at your feet.
0:46:47 > 0:46:51- Maybe you'd see the steps clearer. - How can I stand it?
0:46:51 > 0:46:55- How do I bear it? - Oh, you can cry harder than that.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58I've heard you cry much harder.
0:47:03 > 0:47:07That, my girl, is for thinking up those shoes.
0:47:07 > 0:47:09On stage, everybody!
0:47:09 > 0:47:13Let's see what you can think up for this afternoon's rehearsal.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16You fixed the shoes?
0:47:16 > 0:47:20- Did you see what he's doing to her? - Of course.
0:47:20 > 0:47:25Never interfere between a husband and wife. The best rule ever.
0:47:25 > 0:47:27You mean she's married to him?
0:47:27 > 0:47:30To that man?
0:47:30 > 0:47:33Very much married. Outside, please.
0:47:33 > 0:47:37No-one is allowed in the theatre during rehearsal. Another rule.
0:47:37 > 0:47:40How much do we owe for the shoes?
0:47:52 > 0:47:54How could you do that?
0:47:54 > 0:48:00How could a girl like you marry a man like that? How can I help you?
0:48:00 > 0:48:02Dance! Dance!
0:48:02 > 0:48:05Dance!
0:48:05 > 0:48:07Dance! Dance!
0:48:29 > 0:48:31- DORO'S VOICE:- Help me...
0:48:45 > 0:48:47Help me.
0:50:18 > 0:50:21Cobbler! Cobbler.
0:50:21 > 0:50:23Cobbler.
0:50:23 > 0:50:27Thank you. You left before I could thank you.
0:50:27 > 0:50:30They were wonderful. I really floated on air.
0:50:30 > 0:50:32Thank you.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42Thank you.
0:50:44 > 0:50:47Don't tell me what to do. >
0:50:47 > 0:50:50They'll work tomorrow till they get it right.
0:50:50 > 0:50:53I'll see them drop in their tracks.
0:50:53 > 0:50:56Have my coat ready when I'm ready to leave.
0:51:02 > 0:51:04Home.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24What funny people they are.
0:51:24 > 0:51:28First, they laugh and kiss. Then they scream and beat each other.
0:51:28 > 0:51:29Kinda crazy.
0:51:32 > 0:51:34What are you doing?
0:51:34 > 0:51:36- Writing.- A letter? To the children?
0:51:36 > 0:51:39Say something from me to them.
0:51:39 > 0:51:41It's not to the children.
0:51:41 > 0:51:44Who are you writing to, Hans?
0:51:44 > 0:51:46The ballerina.
0:51:46 > 0:51:48Stop bothering me, Peter.
0:51:52 > 0:51:55Why are you writing to the ballerina?
0:51:56 > 0:51:58I heard him talk to her.
0:51:58 > 0:52:00I saw him slap her face.
0:52:00 > 0:52:02Hans, they're married.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07I know that.
0:52:07 > 0:52:10I heard them talking before you came in.
0:52:10 > 0:52:12It was different.
0:52:13 > 0:52:17Look, Peter, you're a child. You don't understand.
0:52:17 > 0:52:20I saw him make her cry with my own eyes.
0:52:20 > 0:52:24- But Hans...- Don't bother me. I must finish this tonight.
0:52:30 > 0:52:32HOWLING WIND
0:52:40 > 0:52:44"The Little Mermaid, a story for Mademoiselle Doro.
0:52:47 > 0:52:49"And so gradually,
0:52:49 > 0:52:53"the little mermaid began to understand.
0:52:55 > 0:52:58"She had sought love
0:52:58 > 0:53:00"from the wrong man."
0:53:23 > 0:53:25KNOCK ON DOOR
0:53:33 > 0:53:35Come in.
0:53:37 > 0:53:41I'm sorry, sir, but he insisted on seeing you.
0:53:41 > 0:53:45Ssh! She's asleep. What's the trouble, doorman? Who's he?
0:53:45 > 0:53:48Sir, this is addressed to Mademoiselle Doro.
0:53:48 > 0:53:51I found this boy trying to take it.
0:53:51 > 0:53:56It's a story and it IS addressed to her. Why were you trying to take it?
0:53:56 > 0:53:58I wasn't trying to steal it.
0:53:58 > 0:54:00- It's mine.- Is it?
0:54:00 > 0:54:04- Why is it addressed to my wife? - What is all this?
0:54:04 > 0:54:07It's mine! Please give it to me.
0:54:07 > 0:54:09Now, who wrote this?
0:54:11 > 0:54:13I did.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15You did?
0:54:20 > 0:54:25Suppose you tell me why you wrote this story to my wife?
0:54:25 > 0:54:28It's nothing to do with you or her. It's just a story.
0:54:28 > 0:54:33He made up a story. He's always making up stories.
0:54:33 > 0:54:35Would you mind telling me who HE is?
0:54:35 > 0:54:40We know very well you didn't write it so you can stop lying.
0:54:40 > 0:54:42Now, who is he?
0:54:42 > 0:54:44- A friend of mine.- What's his name?
0:54:44 > 0:54:46Hans...
0:54:46 > 0:54:50- Christian Andersen, the cobbler. - DORO LAUGHS
0:54:52 > 0:54:55Darling, it's the cobbler.
0:54:55 > 0:55:00The cobbler who fixed my shoes. He's written a story for a ballet.
0:55:00 > 0:55:04- I don't believe it.- Tell the cobbler I am delighted to have it.
0:55:04 > 0:55:08What was his name? Hans? I'll read it carefully.
0:55:08 > 0:55:12- THEY BOTH LAUGH The Little Mermaid!- Stop it.
0:55:12 > 0:55:16I find it quite touching.
0:55:17 > 0:55:20I haven't said "Good morning" yet.
0:55:22 > 0:55:25Good morning, darling.
0:55:44 > 0:55:48Where have you been? I've lost it. I can't find it anyplace.
0:55:48 > 0:55:53Help me look, will you, Peter? When I need you, you disappear.
0:55:53 > 0:55:56I'll have to write it all over again.
0:55:56 > 0:56:00- You don't have to write it again. - Don't stand there. Look.
0:56:00 > 0:56:03- You don't have to write it again. - What?
0:56:03 > 0:56:05She's got it.
0:56:10 > 0:56:12What did you say?
0:56:12 > 0:56:14She has it, Hans. Right now.
0:56:14 > 0:56:16She has?
0:56:17 > 0:56:19But how did she get it?
0:56:20 > 0:56:25I was reading it and it blew out of my hands.
0:56:25 > 0:56:27You took it?
0:56:27 > 0:56:29But why?
0:56:29 > 0:56:31Never mind that. Go on.
0:56:31 > 0:56:35It blew into the window of the theatre and...
0:56:35 > 0:56:37That's how she got it.
0:56:38 > 0:56:40A wind took it to her.
0:56:41 > 0:56:43It's an omen, Peter.
0:56:46 > 0:56:48She's reading it now.
0:56:54 > 0:56:59- Don't go over there.- I must. I've got to talk to her. I can help her.
0:57:01 > 0:57:05That there and this sofa. Let's get them on the wagon.
0:57:05 > 0:57:10- What's going on here? What are you doing?- The ballet's moving out.
0:57:10 > 0:57:12Moving out?
0:57:18 > 0:57:21Excuse me. Is it true the ballet's moving out?
0:57:21 > 0:57:24That's right. Their regular yearly tour.
0:57:24 > 0:57:27Where to? How long will they be gone?
0:57:41 > 0:57:43THE CHILDREN LAUGH
0:57:43 > 0:57:45QUACKING
0:57:56 > 0:57:59Oh, there's the school bell.
0:57:59 > 0:58:01Off to school ! Hurry up!
0:58:01 > 0:58:05Off with you now! Another day, another story.
0:58:05 > 0:58:09I don't want any trouble with the schoolmaster.
0:58:09 > 0:58:11Hurry!
0:58:16 > 0:58:18What's the matter? Are you unhappy?
0:58:20 > 0:58:24Would you like me to tell you a special story?
0:58:24 > 0:58:26You would?
0:58:26 > 0:58:28Come on up here.
0:58:30 > 0:58:31Come on.
0:58:39 > 0:58:42I'm not going to hurt you.
0:58:44 > 0:58:46Now, let me see.
0:58:51 > 0:58:56# There once was an ugly duckling
0:58:56 > 0:58:59# With feathers all stubby and brown
0:58:59 > 0:59:03# And the other birds in so many words said
0:59:03 > 0:59:06# Phht! Get out of town
0:59:07 > 0:59:08# Phht! Get out
0:59:08 > 0:59:10# Phht! Phht! Get out
0:59:10 > 0:59:14# Phht! Phht! Get out of town
0:59:14 > 0:59:17# And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack
0:59:17 > 0:59:20# And a flurry of eiderdown. #
0:59:21 > 0:59:25Do you want me to tell you the rest of the story?
0:59:25 > 0:59:27All right.
0:59:28 > 0:59:32# That poor little ugly duckling
0:59:32 > 0:59:35# Went wandering far and near
0:59:35 > 0:59:38# But at every place, they said to his face
0:59:38 > 0:59:41# Now phht! Get out of here
0:59:42 > 0:59:44# Phht! Get out
0:59:44 > 0:59:46# Phht! Phht! Get out
0:59:46 > 0:59:49# Phht! Phht! Get out of here
0:59:49 > 0:59:53# And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack
0:59:53 > 0:59:56# And a very unhappy tear
1:00:04 > 1:00:06# All through the winter time
1:00:06 > 1:00:09# He hid himself away
1:00:09 > 1:00:11# Ashamed to show his face
1:00:12 > 1:00:15# Afraid of what others might say
1:00:15 > 1:00:18# All through the winter
1:00:18 > 1:00:21# In his lonely clump of weed
1:00:21 > 1:00:24# Till a flock of swans spied him there
1:00:24 > 1:00:26# And very soon agreed
1:00:27 > 1:00:34# You're a very fine swan indeed. #
1:00:34 > 1:00:36"A swan? Me, a swan?"
1:00:36 > 1:00:39"Oh, go on." He said, "Yes, you're a swan.
1:00:39 > 1:00:42"Look in that lake and you'll see."
1:00:42 > 1:00:44He looked and he saw and he said,
1:00:44 > 1:00:46"I am a swan.
1:00:46 > 1:00:49"Wheeee!"
1:00:49 > 1:00:52# I'm not such an ugly duckling
1:00:52 > 1:00:56# No feathers all stubby and brown
1:00:56 > 1:01:00# For in fact these birds in so many words said
1:01:00 > 1:01:02# The best in town
1:01:02 > 1:01:04# Keek! The best
1:01:04 > 1:01:05# Keek! Keek! The best
1:01:05 > 1:01:07# Keek! Keek! The best in town
1:01:08 > 1:01:12# Not a quack, not a quack, not a waddle or a quack
1:01:12 > 1:01:17# But a glide and a whistle and a snowy-white back
1:01:17 > 1:01:22# And a head so noble and high
1:01:22 > 1:01:26# Say, who's an ugly duckling?
1:01:26 > 1:01:28# Not I. #
1:01:28 > 1:01:30HE WHISTLES TUNE
1:01:35 > 1:01:37# Not I. #
1:01:37 > 1:01:41So, Lars, it makes no difference if they make fun of you.
1:01:41 > 1:01:44But it does. I want to play with them.
1:01:44 > 1:01:49But they make fun of me because I was sick and had my head shaved.
1:01:49 > 1:01:52Yes, but look what happened to the ugly duckling.
1:01:52 > 1:01:57One day soon, you'll look in the mirror - sooner than you think -
1:01:57 > 1:01:59and your hair will all be grown out
1:01:59 > 1:02:02and you'll be like the ugly duckling.
1:02:02 > 1:02:04You'll be better than any of them.
1:02:04 > 1:02:07Are you sure, Hans?
1:02:07 > 1:02:09Very sure.
1:02:10 > 1:02:13- Now, you'd better run off to school. You're late now.- Bye, Hans.
1:02:21 > 1:02:23- Oh, cobbler.- Yes?
1:02:23 > 1:02:27- Are my shoes ready? - Yes, I have them waiting.
1:02:27 > 1:02:30- One mark, please.- As much as that?
1:02:30 > 1:02:33Yes, ma'am. They're practically new.
1:02:35 > 1:02:37How beautiful.
1:02:37 > 1:02:39What kind of shoes are they?
1:02:39 > 1:02:42Ballet slippers. I made them myself.
1:02:42 > 1:02:45How lovely they are.
1:02:45 > 1:02:49Please, ma'am, they might soil. You understand.
1:02:49 > 1:02:52- Who wears such lovely things? - A lady who dances.
1:02:52 > 1:02:55Her feet twinkle like little stars.
1:02:55 > 1:03:00I assure you the slippers won't even be noticed, she's so beautiful.
1:03:02 > 1:03:04Thank you.
1:03:04 > 1:03:07Thank you. Please come again.
1:03:53 > 1:03:56# Her arms were warm as they welcomed me
1:03:58 > 1:04:01# Her eyes were fire bright
1:04:02 > 1:04:06# And then I knew that my path must be
1:04:07 > 1:04:11# Through the ever haunted night
1:04:13 > 1:04:17# For anywhere I wander
1:04:19 > 1:04:22# Anywhere I roam
1:04:23 > 1:04:28# Till I'm in the arms of my darling again
1:04:30 > 1:04:34# My heart will find no home
1:04:36 > 1:04:40# Anywhere I wander
1:04:42 > 1:04:45# Anywhere I roam
1:05:12 > 1:05:17# Anywhere I wander
1:05:19 > 1:05:25# Anywhere I roam. #
1:05:47 > 1:05:50- You're Hans the cobbler?- Yes, sir.
1:05:50 > 1:05:56- I'm pleased to know you.- How do you do?- You've no idea why you're here?
1:05:56 > 1:06:01- No, sir.- I'm the father of the ugly duckling. Does that mean anything?
1:06:01 > 1:06:04Oh! You're Lars' father, I see.
1:06:04 > 1:06:08That story helped him over a bad time. I'm grateful.
1:06:08 > 1:06:13When I made inquiries, I found you had a lot more stories.
1:06:13 > 1:06:17The children are full of them. Do you ever write any of them?
1:06:17 > 1:06:20- Oh, no, sir. - I've a little surprise for you.
1:06:22 > 1:06:25Give me a small sheet of paper.
1:06:46 > 1:06:48Oh.
1:06:52 > 1:06:54Thank you very much.
1:06:57 > 1:07:00It's the finest present I've ever had.
1:07:00 > 1:07:03I'm delighted. Lars will be, too.
1:07:07 > 1:07:09Could I say something? You wouldn't mind?
1:07:09 > 1:07:12Of course not. Say what you want.
1:07:12 > 1:07:15Well, instead of Hans the cobbler,
1:07:15 > 1:07:20could it say Hans Christian Andersen, like a real writer?
1:07:20 > 1:07:22Certainly.
1:07:22 > 1:07:25If you write some of those stories down,
1:07:25 > 1:07:30as you tell them to the children, I'll print them and pay for them.
1:07:33 > 1:07:35I can hardly believe it.
1:07:37 > 1:07:40- When will it be in the paper? - Tomorrow.
1:07:40 > 1:07:44It'll say "Hans Christian Andersen" all day tomorrow.
1:07:44 > 1:07:46- All day?- All day.
1:07:49 > 1:07:51- Well, goodbye, sir.- Goodbye.
1:07:53 > 1:07:55All day?
1:07:57 > 1:08:00- Thank you, sir.- Thank YOU.
1:08:07 > 1:08:09The Ugly Duckling,
1:08:09 > 1:08:11by Hans Christian Andersen.
1:08:14 > 1:08:16# I'm Hans Christian Andersen
1:08:17 > 1:08:20# That fortune has smiled upon
1:08:20 > 1:08:24# Although I'm a duckling today, tomorrow I'm a swan
1:08:24 > 1:08:26# A tale I told and it turned to gold
1:08:26 > 1:08:28# As gold as a tale can be
1:08:28 > 1:08:31# I laugh - ha-ha! - but I blush a bit
1:08:31 > 1:08:35# For I realise, while I'm reading it, that it's also reading me
1:08:35 > 1:08:38# By Hans Christian Andersen. #
1:08:38 > 1:08:40I am a swan.
1:08:40 > 1:08:44# I write myself a note each day and I place it in my hat
1:08:44 > 1:08:47# The wind comes by, the hat blows high, but that's not the end of that
1:08:47 > 1:08:52# For round and round the world it goes, it lands here right behind myself
1:08:52 > 1:08:54# I pick it up and I read the note
1:08:54 > 1:08:56# Which is merely to remind myself
1:08:56 > 1:08:59# I'm Hans Christian Andersen
1:08:59 > 1:09:01# Andersen... #
1:09:01 > 1:09:03Peter!
1:09:06 > 1:09:08# I'm Hans Christian Andersen
1:09:08 > 1:09:11# I bring you a fable rare
1:09:11 > 1:09:13# There once was a table who said
1:09:13 > 1:09:16# How I'd love a chair
1:09:16 > 1:09:19# And then and there came a sweet young chair
1:09:19 > 1:09:21# All dressed in a bridal gown
1:09:22 > 1:09:25# He said to her in a voice so true
1:09:25 > 1:09:30# Now, I did not say I would marry you, but I would like to sit down
1:09:30 > 1:09:32# I'm Hans Christian Andersen
1:09:32 > 1:09:34# Andersen's in town. #
1:09:34 > 1:09:36HE WHISTLES THE TUNE
1:09:39 > 1:09:41"The Ugly Duckling by..."
1:09:41 > 1:09:45- Hans, it can't be.- You're looking at a real writer, Peter.
1:09:45 > 1:09:50Tomorrow, the paper will say "Hans Christian Andersen" all day.
1:09:50 > 1:09:53- Is that what the newspaper wanted? - Yes.
1:09:53 > 1:09:55They've printed one of your stories.
1:09:55 > 1:10:00The way it happened is like a story in itself. Wait till you hear.
1:10:00 > 1:10:04From now on, if anyone asks who you're working for,
1:10:04 > 1:10:08you can say a writer, you're working for a real writer.
1:10:10 > 1:10:12THEY BOTH LAUGH
1:10:12 > 1:10:15The Ugly Duckling by Hans the cobbler.
1:10:16 > 1:10:18- I can hardly believe it.- Peter...
1:10:22 > 1:10:26can you imagine the schoolmaster's face?
1:10:26 > 1:10:30One day, a newspaper arrives from Copenhagen.
1:10:30 > 1:10:32He looks and suddenly...
1:10:33 > 1:10:35He can't believe his eyes.
1:10:35 > 1:10:40"Hans Christian Andersen?" he says. "Hans the cobbler?
1:10:40 > 1:10:42"A story by Hans Christian Andersen?
1:10:44 > 1:10:46"A fine story." Have a bite.
1:10:46 > 1:10:52- There's something on your hand.- It must be from the printing machine.
1:10:53 > 1:10:55Peter.
1:10:55 > 1:10:57Look.
1:10:57 > 1:11:02- "The Royal Danish Ballet returns from tour."- She's back.
1:11:02 > 1:11:08Peter, she's back! Oh, what a day! Everything is happening at once.
1:11:08 > 1:11:12- She's back! - We promised shoes for today.
1:11:12 > 1:11:15I'll do it later. I couldn't sit still.
1:11:15 > 1:11:18She's back, Peter! I've got to go. She's back.
1:13:46 > 1:13:48ALL: Ah!
1:14:11 > 1:14:13# Never before and never again
1:14:13 > 1:14:15# Never before and never again
1:14:15 > 1:14:18# No two people have ever been so in love
1:14:18 > 1:14:20- # Been so in love - # Been so in love
1:14:20 > 1:14:21- # Been so in love - # Been so in love
1:14:21 > 1:14:25# It's incredible! No two people have ever been so in love
1:14:25 > 1:14:28# Been so in love as my lovey-dove and I
1:14:28 > 1:14:31# This is unique, the positive peak, we are the most unusual couple on earth
1:14:31 > 1:14:34# No two people have ever mooned such a moon
1:14:34 > 1:14:36- # Mooned such a moon - # Juned such a June
1:14:36 > 1:14:38- # Juned such a June - # Spooned such a spoon
1:14:38 > 1:14:41# What he means is that no two people have ever been so in tune
1:14:41 > 1:14:45# Been so as my macaroon and I
1:14:45 > 1:14:47- # And when we kiss - # And when we kiss
1:14:47 > 1:14:49- # And when we kiss - # Well, fancy this
1:14:49 > 1:14:51# It's hysterical, it's historical
1:14:51 > 1:14:53- # Let me tell it - # Well, certainly, darling
1:14:53 > 1:14:56# No two people have ever been so in love
1:14:56 > 1:14:58- # Been so in love - # Been so in love
1:14:58 > 1:15:00- # Been so in love - # Been so in love
1:15:00 > 1:15:03# It's impossible! No two people have ever been so in love
1:15:03 > 1:15:06# Been so as my lovey-dove and I
1:15:06 > 1:15:09# This is the cream, the very extreme, the sort of a dream you couldn't imagine
1:15:09 > 1:15:12# Well, anyway, no two people have ever been so in love
1:15:12 > 1:15:15# Been so as my lovey-dove and I
1:15:21 > 1:15:25ALL: # No two people have ever been so in love
1:15:25 > 1:15:26# Been so in love
1:15:26 > 1:15:28# Been so in love
1:15:28 > 1:15:32# No two people have ever been so in love
1:15:32 > 1:15:35# As Mr and Mrs Hans Christian Andersen. #
1:15:36 > 1:15:38- Mrs Andersen.- Mr Andersen.
1:15:40 > 1:15:42- Mrs Andersen.- Mr Andersen...
1:15:42 > 1:15:44Mr Andersen?
1:15:44 > 1:15:47Mr Andersen.
1:15:47 > 1:15:49Mr Andersen!
1:15:49 > 1:15:51Oh, Mr Andersen.
1:15:51 > 1:15:53Mr Andersen?
1:15:54 > 1:15:56Mr Andersen!
1:15:56 > 1:16:00How sweet of you to be here the moment we return!
1:16:00 > 1:16:03How did you know we're doing your ballet?
1:16:03 > 1:16:08Never mind. Your reward will come tomorrow when you see me dance it.
1:16:08 > 1:16:11You'll come, won't you?
1:16:13 > 1:16:17Perhaps you will have words for me by tomorrow night.
1:16:20 > 1:16:22HE WHISTLES "The Ugly Duckling"
1:16:24 > 1:16:27What would they say in the village?
1:16:27 > 1:16:30You and me ready to go to the Opera House.
1:16:30 > 1:16:32To see my ballet.
1:16:33 > 1:16:37Would they believe it? No. "One of the cobbler's tales," they'd say.
1:16:37 > 1:16:41"How can the children believe such things?"
1:16:41 > 1:16:45But even I wouldn't make up this story. And it happens to be true.
1:16:46 > 1:16:49Is it all right if I don't go?
1:16:49 > 1:16:51- What? - HANS WHISTLES
1:16:54 > 1:16:57I said, is it all right if I don't go with you?
1:16:57 > 1:17:00No, it's not all right if you don't go.
1:17:00 > 1:17:03What's the matter with you anyway, Peter?
1:17:03 > 1:17:05Something's wrong with you.
1:17:05 > 1:17:07Come inside.
1:17:21 > 1:17:23What's the matter, Peter?
1:17:23 > 1:17:25Come on, out with it.
1:17:28 > 1:17:32I've been trying to tell you something, Hans, all day.
1:17:34 > 1:17:37All right, Peter, tell me now.
1:17:38 > 1:17:42It's hard for me, Hans. I don't know how to say it.
1:17:45 > 1:17:47Never mind. Just say it.
1:17:49 > 1:17:53I tried... I tried once to tell you but you wouldn't listen.
1:17:53 > 1:17:55When they went away,
1:17:55 > 1:17:57I thought you'd forget about it.
1:17:57 > 1:18:02- They?- I don't like people who laugh at you, Hans. That hurts me.
1:18:02 > 1:18:07Back in the village, when they made fun of you, I wanted to kill them.
1:18:07 > 1:18:10Laugh at me? What are you talking about?
1:18:10 > 1:18:12Her and him.
1:18:12 > 1:18:15You don't understand them.
1:18:15 > 1:18:17What don't I understand?
1:18:17 > 1:18:22You're making up a story about them, like you do everything else.
1:18:22 > 1:18:26It's about them, not clocks and flowers and stars.
1:18:26 > 1:18:29- She'll laugh at you, Hans. - So that's it.
1:18:29 > 1:18:31I thought so.
1:18:31 > 1:18:35Is she laughing at me when she does my ballet tonight?
1:18:35 > 1:18:39Was she laughing at me yesterday when she kissed me?
1:18:39 > 1:18:41- She kissed you?- Yes, yes.
1:18:43 > 1:18:45You didn't know that, did you?
1:18:46 > 1:18:49I don't care. It's true.
1:18:49 > 1:18:53I'm sorry you said that. You never lied to me before.
1:18:53 > 1:18:56You don't have to come with me.
1:18:58 > 1:19:03Maybe you'd better see if you can find work with someone else.
1:19:03 > 1:19:06You're old enough now to be by yourself.
1:19:07 > 1:19:11I think we'd better part company altogether because...
1:19:13 > 1:19:17..because I don't think we like each other any more.
1:20:06 > 1:20:09MEN ALL SHOUT AT ONCE
1:20:09 > 1:20:11I beg your pardon.
1:20:11 > 1:20:14No-one's allowed in before the performance.
1:20:14 > 1:20:16I'm Hans Christian Andersen.
1:20:17 > 1:20:20- The author of the ballet. - Oh, good day.
1:20:20 > 1:20:25Don't you read the posters outside your own theatre?
1:20:25 > 1:20:27< Make the legs lower.
1:20:27 > 1:20:29< Up! Down again. Around.
1:20:29 > 1:20:31< That's it.
1:20:31 > 1:20:33< Stay together. Together!
1:20:33 > 1:20:35< Around.
1:20:35 > 1:20:39Good, good. That's much better. Keep it up.
1:20:40 > 1:20:43That's it. Go around. Come around this way.
1:20:43 > 1:20:46Who are you? Oh, get out of here at once.
1:20:46 > 1:20:50Don't deliver any shoes before a show. Leave it with the doorman.
1:20:50 > 1:20:56- Try the Arabesque again - together. - The name is Hans Christian Andersen.
1:20:56 > 1:20:58Andersen! Why, the ballet writer!
1:20:58 > 1:21:04- I'd like to deliver these shoes to Doro before the show.- Please go...
1:21:04 > 1:21:07- Will you move the big shell upstage? - Yes, sir.
1:21:07 > 1:21:12Go out front and watch your ballet. We're all busy. I'll give her...
1:21:12 > 1:21:17- Don't touch them. - You can't see her now. No-one sees her before an opening.
1:21:17 > 1:21:22- Show us where you want the shell. > - In a minute, in a minute!
1:21:22 > 1:21:24Just move it on stage.
1:21:25 > 1:21:30Will you escort Mr Andersen to the stage door - quietly but firmly?
1:21:30 > 1:21:32But I have these...
1:21:32 > 1:21:35If you please. I'd like to leave alone.
1:21:48 > 1:21:51THE DANCERS CHATTER EXCITEDLY
1:21:53 > 1:21:57Not you again! This is no time to bother anyone.
1:21:57 > 1:22:00I have an idea Doro would not agree with you.
1:22:00 > 1:22:04Why am I playing with authors on opening nights?
1:22:04 > 1:22:08- Overture in three minutes.- Did you hear? In three minutes, we begin.
1:22:08 > 1:22:11Ladies, take your places.
1:22:15 > 1:22:18Open that door! Let me out of here!
1:22:18 > 1:22:20< BURST OF APPLAUSE
1:22:24 > 1:22:26< MUSIC BEGINS
1:22:52 > 1:22:54'I can see it.'
1:22:54 > 1:22:58'I don't have to see it with my eyes.'
1:22:58 > 1:23:00'I can see it all.'
1:24:18 > 1:24:20THUNDERCLAP
1:37:17 > 1:37:21FINAL CRESCENDO AND APPLAUSE
1:37:27 > 1:37:29< Come in.
1:37:29 > 1:37:32- Good morning, madam. - Good morning, Celine.
1:37:32 > 1:37:36- Not a very nice day. - It looks lovely to me.
1:37:36 > 1:37:40How good it feels to be back in my own room. It seems years.
1:37:40 > 1:37:45That it does. And what a wonderful success last night.
1:37:45 > 1:37:50- I can't remember the audience being so excited.- It was the new ballet.
1:37:50 > 1:37:53It is enchanting. I love to dance it.
1:37:55 > 1:38:00- What a curious fellow he is. He never turned up at all.- Who, madam?
1:38:00 > 1:38:02Hans the cobbler.
1:38:02 > 1:38:05You know, I wonder if he was even there.
1:38:05 > 1:38:08Do you suppose he was there and was too shy...?
1:38:08 > 1:38:12- Good heavens! - I thought you were fast asleep.
1:38:12 > 1:38:16- It's the cobbler. He's still in the prop room.- What are you saying?
1:38:16 > 1:38:20I locked him up just before the performance.
1:38:20 > 1:38:26I had to. He insisted on giving you some shoes five minutes before the ballet.
1:38:26 > 1:38:29- And he never saw the ballet? - I forgot.
1:38:29 > 1:38:34- You big fool!- I had other things to think about just then.
1:38:34 > 1:38:38Quickly, Celine! Go to the theatre. Run and bring him here.
1:38:38 > 1:38:41Oh, that poor, dear man.
1:38:41 > 1:38:43And you, you monster!
1:38:43 > 1:38:48You stay under there. Try popping your head out and see what you get!
1:38:48 > 1:38:50The lamp over it, I promise!
1:38:50 > 1:38:52Oh! Ha-ha!
1:38:57 > 1:39:00Oh, Hans. I am going to call you Hans now.
1:39:00 > 1:39:05- What a thing to have happened. Are you all right?- Yes.
1:39:05 > 1:39:08Just like him to have done such a thing.
1:39:08 > 1:39:10Here, sit down.
1:39:10 > 1:39:13- Would you like a cup of chocolate? - No, thank you.
1:39:13 > 1:39:16And you missing the ballet.
1:39:16 > 1:39:20We do it again two nights from now and you'll see it then.
1:39:20 > 1:39:24- But I did see the ballet. - How? I thought you were...
1:39:24 > 1:39:27I was. But I could hear the music.
1:39:27 > 1:39:32And I knew the story. I didn't have to see you dance with my eyes.
1:39:32 > 1:39:35Oh, Hans, how very dear you are.
1:39:35 > 1:39:38And how I love to dance it.
1:39:38 > 1:39:41I don't know quite why. It's very strange.
1:39:41 > 1:39:46Even when we rehearsed it, I felt something sad and tender.
1:39:46 > 1:39:48I don't know why.
1:39:48 > 1:39:52- I know why.- You do?- Mm-hmm.- Tell me.
1:39:52 > 1:39:54I think it was your answer.
1:39:54 > 1:39:56My answer?
1:39:56 > 1:39:59I let my heart speak to you with the story and...
1:40:00 > 1:40:03..last night, you answered me with yours.
1:40:05 > 1:40:08Hans, tell me something.
1:40:08 > 1:40:11How did you come to write that story for me?
1:40:11 > 1:40:15I wanted to show how I felt. I knew how miserable you were with him.
1:40:15 > 1:40:17Miserable?
1:40:17 > 1:40:22- With my husband? - I don't think you knew I was there.
1:40:22 > 1:40:26I saw the way he treated you. I saw him slap you.
1:40:26 > 1:40:29I heard you cry.
1:40:31 > 1:40:33Oh, Hans.
1:40:33 > 1:40:36How else could a cobbler speak to you?
1:40:36 > 1:40:37< It's arrived!
1:40:37 > 1:40:40It's here. Good morning, Andersen.
1:40:40 > 1:40:44Your present, angel. Sorry for last night. Forgive me.
1:40:44 > 1:40:49I was thinking of your ballet. You told him what a success it was?
1:40:49 > 1:40:52For a great lady of the ballet.
1:40:55 > 1:40:58Open it, my darling. Don't you want to see it?
1:40:58 > 1:41:02We shall be poor for a year but I had to get it.
1:41:02 > 1:41:05The best part's on the other side. Turn it over.
1:41:05 > 1:41:08Read it aloud. I'm not a poet like Andersen.
1:41:08 > 1:41:12But even a fool like me can speak of love.
1:41:12 > 1:41:14Are you pleased, my darling?
1:41:14 > 1:41:16Read it for me.
1:41:16 > 1:41:20- Not now, Niels, later. - You're not shy suddenly?
1:41:20 > 1:41:24Never mind. Do anything you wish. She danced like an angel, Andersen.
1:41:24 > 1:41:27I could cover you with kisses.
1:41:27 > 1:41:29Please don't, Niels.
1:41:29 > 1:41:34Haven't you forgiven me? Andersen has. She was furious at me.
1:41:34 > 1:41:38But no harm has been done. It's even amusing.
1:41:38 > 1:41:40Oh, don't look so stern, my dear.
1:41:40 > 1:41:45You were laughing about it yourself. Don't say I didn't hear you. I did.
1:41:45 > 1:41:48- Even under the covers.- Be quiet.
1:41:48 > 1:41:50What's the matter, Doro?
1:41:50 > 1:41:52Hans...
1:41:52 > 1:41:56it doesn't matter why you wrote the story for me.
1:41:56 > 1:41:59It's a beautiful story, for whatever reason.
1:41:59 > 1:42:02It's a lovely and tender story by itself.
1:42:02 > 1:42:06But I shall remember what you told me every time I dance it.
1:42:07 > 1:42:09Andersen, we haven't paid you for it.
1:42:09 > 1:42:14- Do be quiet.- But we want to pay him. We want you to write some more.
1:42:14 > 1:42:17Have you other stories we can use?
1:42:17 > 1:42:20No, I'm afraid that one was just an accident.
1:42:20 > 1:42:23I don't think I'll be writing any more.
1:42:24 > 1:42:29I guess it's all right to deliver these now. Shoes from the cobbler.
1:42:29 > 1:42:31Thank you, Hans.
1:42:33 > 1:42:35- But Andersen...- Niels, let him go.
1:42:35 > 1:42:37Goodbye, Hans.
1:42:46 > 1:42:48Doro...
1:42:48 > 1:42:50Doro, what is it, my darling?
1:43:28 > 1:43:29Peter.
1:43:31 > 1:43:33Peter.
1:43:33 > 1:43:35Peter!
1:43:35 > 1:43:37Peter!
1:43:48 > 1:43:50Hello, Peter.
1:43:55 > 1:43:58Do you mind if I walk with you?
1:44:01 > 1:44:06I can't help it. We both seem to be going in the same direction
1:44:06 > 1:44:08and there's only one road.
1:44:12 > 1:44:14You're going back to the village?
1:44:18 > 1:44:21I'm going back to the village, too.
1:44:23 > 1:44:27Bread and butter. Do you know something?
1:44:27 > 1:44:31I'm never telling another story. Not for the children or myself.
1:44:31 > 1:44:36I've told my last story, Peter. Especially of myself.
1:44:36 > 1:44:38Cobbler, stick to your last.
1:44:38 > 1:44:41If any man learned his lesson good, it's me.
1:44:43 > 1:44:47- I think you'll go on telling stories, Hans.- No, I won't.
1:44:47 > 1:44:51- Oh, yes, you will. - Why do you keep on saying that?
1:44:51 > 1:44:54Why? Because you're Hans Christian Andersen.
1:44:54 > 1:44:56That's why.
1:45:00 > 1:45:02Peter!
1:45:04 > 1:45:07'You'll tell stories. You'll write stories.'
1:45:07 > 1:45:10'You'll even sing stories.'
1:45:10 > 1:45:12'Over and over and over.'
1:45:14 > 1:45:17CHILDREN: Wheee!
1:45:17 > 1:45:20# I'm not such an ugly duckling
1:45:20 > 1:45:23# No feathers all stubby and brown
1:45:23 > 1:45:26# For in fact these birds in so many words said
1:45:26 > 1:45:28# Keek! The best in town
1:45:29 > 1:45:31# Keek! The best
1:45:31 > 1:45:35- # Keek! Keek! The best... # - Hans, tell us about Copenhagen!
1:45:35 > 1:45:41# Oh, wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
1:45:41 > 1:45:44# Friendly old girl of a town
1:45:44 > 1:45:46# 'Neath her tavern light
1:45:46 > 1:45:48# On this merry night
1:45:48 > 1:45:51# Let us clink and drink one down... #
1:45:51 > 1:45:53Wait for me, Hans!
1:45:53 > 1:45:57# To wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen... #
1:45:57 > 1:45:59Tell us about the king.
1:45:59 > 1:46:01CHILDREN: Oh, yes, the king!
1:46:01 > 1:46:05# The king is in the altogether, but altogether, the altogether
1:46:05 > 1:46:08# He's altogether as naked as the day that he was born
1:46:08 > 1:46:11# The king is in the altogether, but altogether, the altogether
1:46:11 > 1:46:14# It's altogether the very least the king has ever worn
1:46:14 > 1:46:18CHILDREN: # Call the court physician! Call an intermission! #
1:46:18 > 1:46:20Hans, my favourite, huh?
1:46:20 > 1:46:22Thumbelina!
1:46:22 > 1:46:24CHILDREN: Yeah!
1:46:24 > 1:46:28- # Though you're no bigger than my thumb - # Than my thumb
1:46:28 > 1:46:30- # Than my thumb - # Than my thumb
1:46:30 > 1:46:31- # Than my thumb - # Than my thumb
1:46:31 > 1:46:34# Sweet Thumbelina, don't be glum
1:46:34 > 1:46:36- # Don't be glum - # Now, now, now
1:46:36 > 1:46:38- # Ah-ah-ah, come, come, come... - Everybody!
1:46:38 > 1:46:42# Oh, Thumbelina, Thumbelina, tiny little thing
1:46:42 > 1:46:44# Thumbelina dance
1:46:44 > 1:46:45# Thumbelina sing
1:46:45 > 1:46:49# Oh, Thumbelina, what's the difference if you're very small?
1:46:49 > 1:46:54# When your heart is full of love, you're nine feet tall. #
1:46:57 > 1:46:59# Hans Christian Andersen! #
1:46:59 > 1:47:02Subtitles BBC Subtitling - 1999