The life of Hans Christian Andersen. The son of a poor cobbler, he becomes Denmark’s national poet. The film reveals the strange childhood from which he derived the whimsy and fantasy of his fairy tales. As a boy of fourteen, he went to Copenhagen, bent on achieving fame in one way or another. He failed to impress the theatrical producers but obtained a scholarship from the King of Denmark. Soon he was writing short stories, plays, poems, novels and fairy tales.
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Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
010296
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Biographical films
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Copenhagen (Denmark)
Documentary → Documentary films - Denmark
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Literature → Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875
Literature → Authors - Biography
Literature → Children's literature
Magic, Occult & Supernatural → Fairy tales
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)