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A fairy is a spirit (supernatural being)
found in the legends, folklore, and mythology
of many cultures. They are generally humanoid
in form, though of a higher, spiritual
nature and so possessed of preternatural
abilities. They are often depicted with
wings and an ethereal glow, lithe and
beautiful.
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Videos with Fairies
Fairy videos.
Fairy Tale: A True Story
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Fairy Tale: A True Story
When her father is declared missing in action during World War I, Elsie Wrigth (Florence Hoath) goes to live in England with her cousin Frances Griffiths (Elizabeth Earl) for whom the topic of fairies is forbidden. Immediately, the girls discover the winged creatures in the garden and photograph them for Frances's startled parents. This leads to another kind of adventure for the girls. They become the toasts of London as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Peter O'Toole) and Harry Houdini (Harvey Keitel), who have seen the photographs, escort them around town. Mildly villainous reporters chase the girls and curious spectators invade their garden after the pictures are printed publicly. Although fairies are the visible subjects, the enchanting video is really about faith. Frances's parents (Phoebe Nicholls and Paul McGann) recently lost their son, Joseph, who had originally discovered the fairies and would like to think he may be an angel. Sir Arthur also lost his son and is courted by clairvoyants who claim they can talk to the boy. Elsie waits patiently for her father to come home, although it appears hopeless that he will. Harry Houdini is an illusionist but acts against the fraudulent claims of greedy mediums and the like. They are all touched by a need to truly believe in what remains hidden. The story is very loosely based on an early 20th-century controversy involving the real Frances and Elsie who faked pictures of fairies similar to the ones in the video. The real girls never confessed, but the video suggests the manner in which the real life photos may have been produced. --Margaret Griffis
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Sand Fairy
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Sand Fairy
A Yoda-like gnome grants the wishes of four siblings on summer holiday in this BBC adaptation of Edith Nesbit's 1902 children's book, Five Children and It. The fifth child is their baby brother whom they call Lamb. The poor child suffers various indignities as a result of his elder sibling's magic wishes, ranging from kidnapping by a loathsome rich woman to turning into a foolish grownup for a day. The rules are: One wish a day and the magic wears off at sundown. Sounds simple enough, but with each wish the children get into more complicated trouble, until they wind up inadvertently framing their mother for theft. The movie's message is to think before speaking, but mostly it's filled with the stuff of children's fantasy: growing wings and flying, becoming a giant, and living in a castle. The special effects are unsophisticated for a film made in 1991, but keep with its general innocence. This makes the film appealing to parents and grandparents weary of the push to make kids older faster. However, its length, (137 minutes) restricts it to patient children ages 5 years and older. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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The Return of the Sand Fairy
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The Return of the Sand Fairy
The director/producer team of the BBC movie The Sand Fairy has paired up again for this sequel in which a quartet of children once again descend upon the British countryside to bedevil the locals and pester the hairy wish-granting troll. This 1993 follow-up is much more concerned with a moral than the original, which was based on Edith Nesbit's book, Five Children and It. These brothers and sisters (apparently unrelated to the first set) are sent to the country to temporarily stay with a child-hating maiden aunt and her mean-spirited servants. Rather than squander their wishes selfishly, they (mostly) use them to help a sickly motherless neighbor, pair up the girl's widower father with their nanny, and turn their aunt from cranky crone to delightful dowager. They do visit the future and attend a party circa 1990, one of the boys becomes invisible, and the whole lot gets to fly with the same wings as their predecessors. Not quite as inventive as the first, but close. As with the original, this movie's length (138 minutes) makes it daunting for anyone under the age of 5. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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Angelina Ballerina - Rose Fairy Princess
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Angelina Ballerina - Rose Fairy Princess
With a title like Rose Fairy Princess among its first releases, Angelina Ballerina, the PBS series centered on a single-minded mouseling, doesn't dance around the fact that it's strictly a girly-girl enterprise. But that's no strike against it; stereotypes aside, here's a cartoon as charming and accessible as the books by Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig from which it bloomed. In four episodes, our prim, pirouetting heroine gives stage jitters the heave-ho, begrudgingly baby-sits her young cousin at the fair, scores scarce tickets to see the legendary Whiskersevs dance, and stumbles off on a guilt trip when a local scamp gets the blame for an accident in the neighbor's garden. In addition to her grace, agility, and talent for tucking her tail into a tutu, Angelina boasts a big-name friend or two--Judy Dench gives voice to exotic, bejeweled ballet teacher Miss Lilly. For ages 3 to 8. --Tammy La Gorce
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Kristen's Fairy House (The Fairy Houses Series)
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Kristen's Fairy House (The Fairy Houses Series)
Just as seashells house the sound and spirit of the sea, so too the forest houses the sound and spirit of the legendary fairies. A 1997 Parents' Choice Gold Award winner, Kristen's Fairy House takes its viewers on a quiet journey of many unexpected discoveries. Young Kristen ventures into the peaceful surroundings of an island off the coast of Maine with her talented Aunt Tracy, a storybook artist. Together they explore a wonderful woodsy land dedicated to the creation of fairy houses. As the week--and Kristen's own fairy house project--progresses, the two share simple moments of heartwarming pleasure: a cozy campfire, a breakfast of blueberry pancakes, a late-night waltz in their quaint cottage. The entire movie is shot as a documentary, narrated in retrospective prose by Kristen. Throughout the story, she learns the importance of viewing the world with an artist's eye, appreciating beauty in the smallest packages. Its simple style, harmonious score, and inviting scenery make this short feature tremendously enjoyable for youngsters old enough to ponder the reality of fairies and adults young enough to let them. The videotape package includes a handout, illustrated by Aunt Tracy, that describes tips for building a fairy house like Kristen's. Upon viewing, kids will probably want to dig right in and build their own. --Liane Thomas
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Kristen's Fairy House
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Kristen's Fairy House
Just as seashells house the sound and spirit of the sea, so too the forest houses the sound and spirit of the legendary fairies. A 1997 Parents' Choice Gold Award winner, Kristen's Fairy House takes its viewers on a quiet journey of many unexpected discoveries. Young Kristen ventures into the peaceful surroundings of an island off the coast of Maine with her talented Aunt Tracy, a storybook artist. Together they explore a wonderful woodsy land dedicated to the creation of fairy houses. As the week--and Kristen's own fairy house project--progresses, the two share simple moments of heartwarming pleasure: a cozy campfire, a breakfast of blueberry pancakes, a late-night waltz in their quaint cottage. The entire movie is shot as a documentary, narrated in retrospective prose by Kristen. Throughout the story, she learns the importance of viewing the world with an artist's eye, appreciating beauty in the smallest packages. Its simple style, harmonious score, and inviting scenery make this short feature tremendously enjoyable for youngsters old enough to ponder the reality of fairies and adults young enough to let them. The videotape package includes a handout, illustrated by Aunt Tracy, that describes tips for building a fairy house like Kristen's. Upon viewing, kids will probably want to dig right in and build their own. --Liane Thomas
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Goldilocks - Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
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Goldilocks - Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
In this astonishingly star-studded animated version of the traditional tale, Goldilocks (Raven-Symone of TV's The Cosby Show) is a black girl from a tropical village whose way of life boils down to doing what she wants without thinking of the consequences. She gets her customary comeuppance, of course, but not before she has incriminated her fellow students for something she did and alienated all her friends. As she wanders through the forest playing hooky, she meets a spider (Jenifer Lewis), a snake (Ben Vereen), and a bat (Lou Rawls) who warn her in song, but the musical trio cannot divert her from her fateful encounter with the three bears (Tone Loc, Alfre Woodard, David Alan Grier). This 25-minute production narrated by Robert Guillaume has a Caribbean flavor to its music, background, and references. (When their food is too hot, the bear family takes a minibus to a reggae concert.) This delightful interpretation of the classic is part of HBO's Happily Ever After series. (Ages 3 and older) --Kimberly Heinrichs
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The Good Fairy
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The Good Fairy
The Good Fairy is an amusing minor specimen of the sort of Continental whimsy Ernst Lubitsch raised to a fine art. William Wyler, though soon to acquire major-director status, displays little affinity for comedy, and, title notwithstanding, the often-magical Margaret Sullavan is notably less magical than in her other '30s efforts (she and Wyler had a great love-hate thing going during filming, and eloped on his motorcycle right afterward). The real stars are screenwriter Preston Sturges and the breed of exuberant character actors with whom he would make manically beautiful music upon turning director himself: Reginald Owen, Eric Blore, Torben Meyer, Luis Alberni, et al. Herbert Marshall sporadically brings a Lubitschean delicacy to his role as the struggling lawyer who doesn't know he's "married" to Sullavan's sweetly balmy movie usherette (it's a long story), and Frank Morgan, as a plutocrat who desperately wants to play the roué, is really the Wizard of Oz in training. --Richard T. Jameson
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The Return of the Sand Fairy
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The Return of the Sand Fairy
The director/producer team of the BBC movie The Sand Fairy has paired up again for this sequel in which a quartet of children once again descend upon the British countryside to bedevil the locals and pester the hairy wish-granting troll. This 1993 follow-up is much more concerned with a moral than the original, which was based on Edith Nesbit's book, Five Children and It. These brothers and sisters (apparently unrelated to the first set) are sent to the country to temporarily stay with a child-hating maiden aunt and her mean-spirited servants. Rather than squander their wishes selfishly, they (mostly) use them to help a sickly motherless neighbor, pair up the girl's widower father with their nanny, and turn their aunt from cranky crone to delightful dowager. They do visit the future and attend a party circa 1990, one of the boys becomes invisible, and the whole lot gets to fly with the same wings as their predecessors. Not quite as inventive as the first, but close. As with the original, this movie's length (138 minutes) makes it daunting for anyone under the age of 5. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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Sand Fairy
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Sand Fairy
A Yoda-like gnome grants the wishes of four siblings on summer holiday in this BBC adaptation of Edith Nesbit's 1902 children's book, Five Children and It. The fifth child is their baby brother whom they call Lamb. The poor child suffers various indignities as a result of his elder sibling's magic wishes, ranging from kidnapping by a loathsome rich woman to turning into a foolish grownup for a day. The rules are: One wish a day and the magic wears off at sundown. Sounds simple enough, but with each wish the children get into more complicated trouble, until they wind up inadvertently framing their mother for theft. The movie's message is to think before speaking, but mostly it's filled with the stuff of children's fantasy: growing wings and flying, becoming a giant, and living in a castle. The special effects are unsophisticated for a film made in 1991, but keep with its general innocence. This makes the film appealing to parents and grandparents weary of the push to make kids older faster. However, its length, (137 minutes) restricts it to patient children ages 5 years and older. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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Fairy Tale: A True Story
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Fairy Tale: A True Story
When her father is declared missing in action during World War I, Elsie Wrigth (Florence Hoath) goes to live in England with her cousin Frances Griffiths (Elizabeth Earl) for whom the topic of fairies is forbidden. Immediately, the girls discover the winged creatures in the garden and photograph them for Frances's startled parents. This leads to another kind of adventure for the girls. They become the toasts of London as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Peter O'Toole) and Harry Houdini (Harvey Keitel), who have seen the photographs, escort them around town. Mildly villainous reporters chase the girls and curious spectators invade their garden after the pictures are printed publicly. Although fairies are the visible subjects, the enchanting video is really about faith. Frances's parents (Phoebe Nicholls and Paul McGann) recently lost their son, Joseph, who had originally discovered the fairies and would like to think he may be an angel. Sir Arthur also lost his son and is courted by clairvoyants who claim they can talk to the boy. Elsie waits patiently for her father to come home, although it appears hopeless that he will. Harry Houdini is an illusionist but acts against the fraudulent claims of greedy mediums and the like. They are all touched by a need to truly believe in what remains hidden. The story is very loosely based on an early 20th-century controversy involving the real Frances and Elsie who faked pictures of fairies similar to the ones in the video. The real girls never confessed, but the video suggests the manner in which the real life photos may have been produced. --Margaret Griffis
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Thumbelina - Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
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Thumbelina - Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
This updated version of Hans Christian Andersen's classic Thumbelina is set by a river in a rain forest in South America. A childless woman prays every day to be blessed with a child. One day, a rare exotic flower floats down the river. Wrapped in its beautiful leaves is Thumbelina, a child no bigger than the woman's thumb. The woman rejoices in her answered prayers. As Thumbelina grows older (not taller), she yearns to "have an adventure." And what an adventure this street-smart, strong girl ends up having- -she is kidnapped by an overzealous mother frog, swept away by floodwaters, and set to marry a sinister bat prince. Rescued and returned to her mother, Thumbelina learns the power of love and friendship, and that appearances aren't always what they seem. Originally produced for HBO, this version of Thumbelina is multicultural and modern. Narration by Robert Guillaume and the voice talents of Rosie Perez as Thumbelina are wonderful additions. This version has fun with the culture (example: Thumbelina's bed is an avocado) Viewers can also learn Spanish names for things as they go along on Thumbelina's rain-forest adventure. Muy bueno! Good for children 3 and older, but one the whole family will enjoy. --Peggy Maltby-Etra
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