The Magic pear tree

Duration: 5

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Pictura

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A Chinese folktale, animated with jointed paper figures, which tells the tale of a greedy pear peddler and a poor old man who cannot afford to buy a pear. When a kind passerby buys a pear for the elderly man, a magic pear tree springs from the seeds. The moral of the story: we must always have pity on the poor and respect the elderly.

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