I discuss the history and technical details more on my roadtrip down highway US-16, starting at Detroit, Michigan. In the original tale of "The Dancing Princess", it tells of 12 daughters who dance their shoes to shreds at night in an underground castle. The second film was a compilation of the highlights of all 5 previous Cinerama travelogues. Producer-director George Pal had been working on a treatment of the Brothers Grimm script for several years, having previously produced “Tom Thumb”. The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Laurence Harvey Karlheinz Böhm Claire Bloom (1962) The German brothers' (Laurence Harvey, Karl Boehm) story bridges fairy tales: "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves," "The Singing Bone." I did find a set of three puzzles by the Edu-Cards company, showing scenes from the movie: “The Dragon Fight”, “The Dancing Princess”, and “Wild Ride Through the Black Forest”. Stars of the film included Laurence Harvey, who had recently appeared in “Butterfield 8” with Elizabeth Taylor, playing both Wilhelm Grimm and The Cobbler, Yvette Mimieux as the Dancing Princess, Barbara Eden, who would later become famous as Jeannie in the TV show “I Dream of Jeannie”, Buddy Hackett, who was also in 1962’s “The Music Man”, and Jim Backus, who I would enjoy later that year as the voice of the cartoon Mr. Magoo in “Magoo’s Christmas Carol”. In the film, there are five elves (fully clothed) who were carved by the cobbler. Several mishaps befall them as they try to balance writing stories and publishing more serious works. The movie began its showing to the public on July 14, 1962 at the Cooper Cinerama Theatre in Denver, Colorado. Local museums also supplied the film crew with many 19th century period artifacts for use in the film. Surprisingly by today’s standards, there was very little spin-off merchandise. Here's your chance to buy some actual stuff from 1962! It has also been shown on the Turner Movie Classics Network, but also not fully restored. Movies. Laurence Harvey Karlheinz Böhm Claire Bloom. They also both opened with "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" as their first film. Several of the photo that follow are from the book. A three-panel Cinerama print of this movie was shown just a few years ago at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles. Other than these items, it appears that the movie posters, 8x10 still photos, and lobby cards used in theatres are the only artifacts from the film. Film details. JavaScript is disabled. Unfortunately for any of you who want to see the movie, this is the only film originally shot in Cinerama to remain unrestored and therefore unavailable to see complete in a digital format. The book covers some history of how Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Cinerama came to create this joint production, the stars of the movie, the stories portrayed in the movie, locations used for filming, and the people that made it all possible. A love interest intervenes for the younger Jacob. However, the print was clearly fragile ( as we were warned before the showing ) and at one point one of the panels tore in the projector and we had a short intermission before everything was cued up and ready to go. Visit us on Facebook, Pinterest, Flickr, or YouTube! Watch TCM is the convenient way to watch great classic films when you want, where you want uncut, commercial free... and it's absolutely free. In the movie they write a family history for a duke which includes reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone." Karlheinz Böhm Claire Bloom. Parts were filmed earlier in the year near Lone Pine, California, which we saw on Day 35 of our US-6 roadtrip. As I recall, Russ Tamblyn was in the audience and jumped on stage to share a few stories about the film to keep us amused during the unexpected break. Copyright © 2019, and ROADTRIP-'62 ™ - Milne Enterprises, Inc. Website design by Milne Enterprises, Inc. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). The film changes this to just one princess who dances at night in a gypsy camp in the woods. The book that I bought may have been part of a boxed set that included the record album, the book, and some movie still photos. Re-creation of the hobby of the Grimm brothers and of the fairy tales they created. These are some of the lesser-known of the Grimm stories, and were chosen for the movie for that reason, as several of the best known had already been given movie treatments. Cinerama was the first of several widescreen movie filming and projection systems introduced during the 1950s, in an effort to get people back into the theatres after they had begun staying home in droves to watch the new phenomenon of television. GerardoHP Supporting Actor. Tweet. It's too bad since I have never seen it and would have liked to see a better print of the film. Subscribe To Updates. The original high quality elements for the film are damaged and incomplete, and scattered among various international archives. And you can send me your Comments: I'd love to hear from you! Still, I wore out that record and its accompanying souvenir program reliving the movie at home as best I could. Every time I watch the TCM print I wanna cry. The print looked beautiful, with a few scratches here and there but absolutely breathtaking. The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm - Watch Now In Theaters Coming Soon Movie Theaters Latest Trailers News Find Movie Reviews. Trailers. And in "The Singing Bone", the original version tells of two brothers who fight a wild boar. Explore film & TV. The singing bone still gives away the crime, but the murdered servant springs back to life from it and the knight must serve his former servant for evermore. Reactions: Interdimensional. Where we're always on the road, and it's always 1962! It originally involved projecting images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, curved screen, using three synchronized cameras sharing a single shutter to shoot the film. My Content. My Laser disc of this is right beside my laser of The Alamo. Remember, you can find ALL the ROADTRIP-'62 ™ articles listed conveniently on the Blog Archives page. The second Cooper Cinerama Theatre opened in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area in August 1962, and the third opened in Omaha, Nebraska in December. I found no toys, food promotions, kitschy home products, etc. Log In ©2020 British Film Institute. Please visit these sponsors, some of whom were open to serve you in 1962, and others selling great products from that year. Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine. The movie was a box office success worldwide and actually did better in Europe, likely because it had a closer cultural connection there. Book a film for my cinema. This theatre was the first of several movie houses newly constructed especially to show Cinerama features and had just opened in 1961. But enjoy listening to the main theme below, and I’ll see you back at Roadtrip-'62 ™ next time for our next roadtrip. All rights reserved. MGM and Cinerama began working on movies together in late 1959, moving the entire Cinerama operation to Hollywood. This region allowed for exterior scenes that would supply the type of grandeur that Cinerama audiences had become used to from the earlier travelogues, including actual castles. The story disc issued at the time as a soundtrack album had only snatches of the songs and score with Charlie Ruggles narrating the story.