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From Hansel and Gretel, a 1954 stop-motion feature based on Humperdinck’s children’s opera:

Michael Sporn has some more on the film. The Padraic Colum writing credit has me re-arranging my mental furniture – he was in his early 70s by then, and I’m afraid if you asked me for an Irish writer contributing to late German romanticism I’d immediately start giggling at the recollection of the Flann O’Brien piss-takes in the Irish Times.