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The Blue Bird (1918)

Name: The Blue Bird
Genre: Family
Released: 1918
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Cast: Gertrude McCoy

191880 minFamily✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

The Blue Bird (1918) is an 80-minute family film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by Maurice Tourneur.

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About The Blue Bird (1918)

The Blue Bird is a 1918 American silent fantasy film based upon the 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck and directed by Maurice Tourneur in the United States, under the auspices of producer Adolph Zukor.

When poor old widow Berlingot asks Tyltyl and Mytyl, the young son and daughter of her more prosperous neighbors, for the loan of their pet bird to cheer up her ill daughter, Mytyl selfishly refuses. That night, when the children are asleep, the fairy Bérylune enters their home in the semblance of Berlingot, before transforming into her true beautiful appearance. She insists that the children search for the bluebird of happiness. She gives Tyltyl a magical hat which has the power to show him the insides of things.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Blue Bird (1918 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Maurice Tourneur
Cast includes: Gertrude McCoy
Country: United States

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1918 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Maurice Tourneur silent; Maeterlinck play (1908) PD in US.
Source: Internet Archive

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