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Sandman
The Sandman is a mythical character originating in Germanic and Scandinavian folklore who puts people to sleep and encourages and inspires beautiful dreams by sprinkling magical sand onto their eyes. Representation in traditional folklore The Sandman is a traditional character in many children's stories and books. In Scandinavian folklore, he is said to sprinkle sand or dust on or into the eyes of children at night to bring on sleep and dreams. The grit or "sleep" (rheum) in one's eyes upon waking is the supposed result of the Sandman's work the previous night. Literature E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) wrote a short story in 1816 titled ''Der Sandmann'', which showed how sinister such a character could be made. According to the protagonist's nurse, he threw sand in the eyes of children who would not go to sleep, with the result of those eyes falling out and being collected by the Sandman, who then takes the eyes to his iron nest on the Moon and uses them to feed his children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sandman (short Story)
"The Sandman" ( German: ''Der Sandmann'') is a short story by . It was the first in an 1817 book of stories titled ''Die Nachtstücke'' (''The Night Pieces''). Plot summary The story is told by a narrator who claims to have known Lothar. It begins by quoting three letters: # A letter from Nathanael to Lothar, the brother of his fiancée, Clara. Nathanael recalls his childhood terror of the legendary Sandman, who was said to steal the eyes of children who would not go to bed and feed them to his own children who lived in the moon. Nathanael came to associate the Sandman with a mysterious nightly visitor to his father. He recounts that one night, he hid in his father's room to see the Sandman. It is Coppelius, an obnoxious lawyer come to carry out alchemical experiments. Coppelius begins taking "shining masses" out of the fire and hammering them into face-like shapes without eyes. When Nathanael screams and is discovered, Coppelius flings him to the hearth. He is about to throw f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandmännchen
''Unser Sandmännchen'' ("Our Little Sandman"), ''Das Sandmännchen'' ("The Little Sandman"), ''Der Abendgruß'' ("The Evening-Greeting"), ''Abendgruß'' ("Evening-Greeting"), ''Der Sandmann'' ("The Sandman"), ''Sandmann'' ("Sandman"), ''Sandmännchen'' ("Little Sandman") is a German children's bedtime television program using stop-motion animation. The puppet was based on the Ole Lukøje character by Hans Christian Andersen. Two versions of ''Sandmännchen'' were created: one in East Germany (''Unser Sandmännchen''), and one in West Germany (''Das Sandmännchen''). The series is the longest-running animated television series in history; additionally, it is the TV show with the most episodes in history. Background The original idea came from Ilse Obrig, who in 1950 changed from East Berlin's Berliner Rundfunk (BERU) to West Berlin TV and radio station Sender Freies Berlin (SFB). With the help of author Johanna Schüppel, she developed a working version of the chara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilus The Sandman
''Nilus the Sandman'' is a Canadian part-animated and part-live-action television series that originally aired on The Family Channel from 5 October 1996 to 25 October 1998. The series was preceded by three ''Nilus the Sandman'' television specials broadcast between 1991 and 1994 on CTV. The series was produced by Cambium Film & Video Productions and Delaney & Friends Cartoon Productions, and distributed by The Family Channel and Western International Communications (WIC). The show features the Sandman, named Nilus (voiced by Long John Baldry), who helps children and teenagers through their dreams while they are asleep, with the dream stories being animated. The scenes at the beginning and the end of each episode are shot in live action in Vancouver, British Columbia. The show has a total of 26 episodes which aired over two seasons. The show later aired on A Channel in Alberta and MTN in Manitoba. Synopsis Nilus the Sandman helps children with day-to-day difficulties th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sandman (1991 Film)
''The Sandman'' is a 1991 stop-motion short film, animated and directed by Paul Berry (animator), Paul Berry and nominated for an Academy Award, Oscar for Academy Award for Animated Short Film#1990s, Best Animated Short Film in 1993. The storyline is inspired by The Sandman (short story), E.T.A. Hoffmann's version of the European legend of The Sandman. Plot Late on a moonlit evening, a young boy is sent up to bed by his mother. He walks through the darkened hallway of his house and ascends the long, narrow flights of stairs alone, becoming increasingly paranoid that something is following him, until he reaches the safety of his bedroom. As he's drifting off to sleep, he sees a face appear in the crescent Moon outside his window. At the bottom of the stairs, the Sandman, a monstrous bird-like creature, appears, looking like the face the boy saw. He begins to clamber upstairs, slamming doors and creaking floorboards all the way to let the boy know of its impending presence. Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ole Lukøje
"Ole Lukøje" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen based upon a folk tale telling of a mysterious mythic creature of the Sandman who gently takes children to sleep and, depending on how good or bad they were, shows them various dreams.Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he holds over the naughty children so that they sleep heavily, and wake in the morning without having dreamed at all.Ole Lukøje's name is actually composed of two parts: ''Ole '' is a common Danish masculine name, and ''Lukøje'' a compound of the Danish words for 'close' and 'eye'. In the tale, he visits a boy called Hjalmar every night for a whole week and tells him stories. Ole Lukøje is later revealed to be a dream god, and in his final tale on Sunday he tells of his brother, likewise called Ole Lukøj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Berry (animator)
Paul Thomas Berry (13 March 1961 – 26 June 2001) was a British stop-motion animator who first worked on Cosgrove Hall Films, Cosgrove Hall's ''The Wind in the Willows (1983 film), Wind in the Willows'' before directing the 1991 Oscar-nominated short horror stop-motion animation film ''The Sandman (1991 film), The Sandman''. In 1992, the film was awarded the Craft Prize for Best Animation at Ottawa International Animation Festival. Career Other projects Paul Berry worked on included ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' (animator), ''James and the Giant Peach (film), James and the Giant Peach'' (animation supervisor), ''Monkeybone'' (supervising animator) and the music video for Primus (band), Primus' cover of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Death On 26 June 2001 Berry died of a brain tumour. He had stayed strong for several months prior to his death. He was 40 years old. References External links * * , full version of Paul Berry's short film. 1961 births 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Dorn
Michael Dorn (born December 9, 1952) is an American actor best known for his role as the Klingon character Worf in the ''Star Trek'' franchise, appearing in all seven seasons of the television series '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1987–1994), and later reprising the role in seasons four through seven of '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1995–1999) and season three of '' Star Trek: Picard'' (2023). Dorn has appeared more times as a regular cast member than any other ''Star Trek'' actor in the franchise's history, spanning five films and 284 television episodes. Outside of the ''Star Trek'' franchise, Dorn has appeared in the television series ''CHiPs'' (1979–1982), and has had voice roles as Coldstone and Taurus in the animated series '' Gargoyles'' (1994–1997), Kalibak in the DC Animated Universe, I.M. Weasel in '' I Am Weasel'' (1997–2000), Lord Darkar in the Nickelodeon dub of ''Winx Club'' (2011), ''Castle'' (2009-2016) as a psychotherapist, and Captain Mozar i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Escape Clause
''The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause'' is a 2006 American Christmas comedy film directed by Michael Lembeck. It is the third installment in ''The Santa Clause'' franchise, following '' The Santa Clause'' (1994) and '' The Santa Clause 2'' (2002). The film features Tim Allen returning as Scott Calvin, who must find a way to reverse a spell cast by Jack Frost (Martin Short) that caused him to lose his title of Santa Claus. Allen and Short had previously worked together in the 1997 Walt Disney Pictures, Disney comedy film, ''Jungle 2 Jungle''. Most of the supporting actors from the first two films reprise their roles, with the exception of David Krumholtz. As a result of his absence, Curtis (played by Spencer Breslin), who was previously the Assistant Head Elf, has now been promoted to Bernard's former position. This was Peter Boyle's final film to be released during his lifetime (2008's ''All Roads Lead Home'' was released posthumously). Its production was completed in February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |