''Princes et Princesses'' (Princes and Princesses) is a 2000

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by French animator Michel Ocelot. The film consists of six episodes of the 1989 French silhouette animation television series '' Ciné si''.

Release

Produced in 1999 by Les Armateurs and released to French cinemas on 26 January 2000, ''Princes et princesses'' became Ocelot's second feature film (following 1998's ''

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''). The feature version comprises slightly edited versions of 6 of the 8 12-minute episodes, with the addition of a 1-minute

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at the half-way point. In

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, it was distributed on

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with the co-operation of

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, initially in the Ghibli Cinema Library and re-released under the Ghibli Museum Library label. The film won both the adult and children's jury awards at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival.

Home media

As of November 2010, there are no known plans to release ''Princes et princesses'' in the United Kingdom or Australia. It has seen

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releases in the United States and earlier in Canada, however, where it is only available as the second disc of a ''Kirikou and the Sorceress'' two-DVD set. Both discs have English

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, though only for the main feature on each. Also, there is no DVD which uses the full, original, 1.5:1

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; they are optimised for either 4:3 or 16:9 screens and playing the

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version on a 4:3

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will result in windowboxing.

References

External links

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''Princes et princesses''
at La Fabrique
''Princes et princesses''
at Le Palais des dessins animés *

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