Anyone that saw this as a child had the living daylights scared out of them at about 20 to 6 on a weekday if I remember right. I certainly never recovered.
I don't know why you're showing this and I don't know why I searched for it but over 50 years on I still recall it and have even spoken to friends of a similar age about it! Thank you.
Going back to early 1990s', there was one privately owned 35mm print with English subtitles (the BBC dubbed it). I was privileged to have screened the same print many times at a Regional Film Theatre, always on a Philips DP75 pair. It was, of course, all in splendid (dye transfer) colour. It looked lovely on a big screen.
There is something slightly off about every aspect of this TV show. As I said below, my original experience was in B&W. Never saw that splendid technicolour goldfish till YT came along.
@@charlytaylor1748 it was very rememberable. I don't think we were frightened. After watching the film yesterday, it did seem a bit scary, however, we did have a German Mother. Lol. (Our Mum passed away last year, she was 90, we were her children when she was 40 years in age)
an utterly beguilingly fantastic fairy tale, I only ever saw it in black and white with the english narration. The evil dwarf terrified me. One of th ehigh points of East German cinema.
It was bought as a cheap offer from E german TV. Have you seen the Russians colourised (in response to Disney?) fantasies of the 50s and 60s? The reason I saw it in B&W is cos colour TVs were for rich people back then!
I remember it in black and white on summer school holiday mornings alongside "Champion, the Wonder Horse", "Flash Gordon" did it change to colour halfway through or something like "The Wizard of Oz?
We had a B&W telly, so I guess we aassumed it was that way. However, seems to have been in colour originally, though the sotry is shrouded in mystery. Here's what The Reprobate says: I’ll go out on a limb and say that it was probably the colour version that was seen after the 1960s (here’s another interesting question: did the BBC really convert the film to black and white, tweaking the shadows as has been suggested, or - more likely we might think - simply broadcast the film, like many other colour productions, as a black and white signal for black and white TV sets?). Some people might remember seeing the monochrome version in 1976, but can we trust their memory on this? The BBC Genome Project is frustratingly vague on the matter so who knows?
@@charlytaylor1748 Yep I DEFINITELY remember seeing it in '76 and it was shown in black and white. I distinctly remember because the monochrome added to the creepiness
