A Thousand and One Nights
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Animation. Adventure. Fantasy. Kids
Zeman directed a series of shorts for children about the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor, told in exquisitely simple, multi-colored cut-out animation that resembles the jungle fantasies of painter Henri Rousseau. Filled with typically whimsical Zeman touches - a parrot who walks on stilts, a sack that spews an endless mountain of gold coins - these episodes contain some of Zeman's finest work as storyteller and animator.