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Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, abridged

A year by the pond in papercut, summer to spring, quoting the tale's own lines and its last.

Director
Story Director
Scene · film type
Stories · Picture books
Format
16:9 · 102 s
Sources
Public-domain translation from Project Gutenberg, abridged and marked so on screen.

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