''Princes et Princesses'' (Princes and Princesses) is a 2000 compilation film by French animator

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. The film consists of six episodes of the 1989 French silhouette animation television series ''

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''.

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 intermission 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

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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 aspect ratio; 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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