Golden Axe

Duration: 11

Year Published: 1952

Creator: W. Lee Wilder

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Tells a story adapted from Aesop's "Mercury and the Woodsman." When a woodcutter loses his axe, a little man offers him a silver one, and later a golden one. When the woodcutter refuses to claim them as his, he is given both axes as a reward for his honesty. The greedy neighbor who tries to outwit the little man soon learns that honesty is the best policy.