The Blue Bird (1918)

1918 · Silent film · 23 min · dir. Maurice Tourneur

• Drama
• Fantasy

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Synopsis

Two peasant children, Mytyl and Tyltyl, are led by Berylune, a fairy, to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. Berylune gives Tyltyl a cap with a diamond setting, and when Tyltyl turns the diamond, the children become aware of and conversant with the souls of a Dog and Cat, as well as of Fire, Water, Bread, Light, and other presumably inanimate things. The troupe thus sets off to find the elusive Blue Bird of Happiness.

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Details

Director

Maurice Tourneur

Writer

Maurice Maeterlinck

Cinematography

John van den Broek

Studio

Paramount Pictures

Released

1918-03-31

Running time

23 minutes

Cast & crew

• Maurice Tourneur Director
• Tula Belle
• RRobin Macdougall
• EEdwin E. Reed
• EEmma Lowry
• WWilliam J. Gross
• FFlorence Anderson
• Gertrude McCoy
• Lillian Cook

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