Las mil y una noches - (1958) (Mexico)

 

Las mil y una noches - (1958) (Mexico)

Cast

Germán Valdés - Ven Aquí

María Antonieta Pons - Ven Acá

Óscar Pulido - Sultán Ali Pus

Martha Valdés - Soberana Sobeyra

Mapita Cortés - Yamirka

Marcelo Chávez

Manuel Valdés

Miguel Arenas - Sultán de Basora

Elena Julián

Ramón Valdés

Silvia Carrillo - Odalisca

Roberto Y. Palacios

Leticia Julián

Antonio Valdés

A Thousand and One Nights

Directed by Fernando Cortés

Written by María Luisa Algarra (dialogue), Josefina Vicens

Produced by Fernando de Fuentes, Gonzalo Elvira, Ramón Pereda

Starring Germán Valdés, María Antonieta Pons, Mapita Cortés

Cinematography Jack Draper

Edited by Carlos Savage

Music by Manuel Esperón

Release date

17 September 1958 (Mexico)

Running time 90 min

Country Mexico

Language Spanish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxr3mb9BtMk

Cuentos del Mundo's Arabian Nights (2014)

Pedro Alonso Pablos writes from Spain where he is producing an Arabian Nights animated series. The series has been included in an animation compendium called "Tales of the World" ("Cuentos del Mundo", in Spanish) and has been released through the VOD Spanish portal http://www.filmin.es for Spain. It is available for rent or to subscribers of that website. Filmin is an independent VOD page in Spain backed by Almodovar's production company and financed in part by the Spanish Government.

Three episodes are currently available, many more to come. 

English version (featuring minor dialogue editing by myself!) is also coming soon and to be released through Amazon video.

IMDB:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4025596/

Watch at filmin (fee): https://www.filmin.es/serie/cuentos-del-mundo

About Cuentos del Mundo:  La serie consta de tres capítulos, el primero dedicado a cuentos occidentales, el segundo es una selección de tres cuentos del compendio "Las Mil y Una Noches", y el tercero son dos cuentecitos íntegramente creados por Pedro. En total más de 20 minutos de animación que han consumido grandes recursos, temas musicales originales para cada pieza y años de trabajo.

Here is the trailer:

Roberto Bolano - 2666

 from Roberto Bolano - 2666

"One day fortune smiled on me and I attended one of these parties.  To say I met the philosopher would be an exaggeration.  I saw him.  In a corner of the room, talking to another poet and another philosopher.  He appeared to be giving a lecture.  Then everything seemed slightly off.  The guests were waiting for the poet to make his entrance.  They were waiting for him to pick a fight.  Or to defecate in the middle of the living room, on a Turkish carpet like the threadbare carpet from the Thousand and One Nights, a battered carpet that sometimes functioned as a mirror, reflecting all of us from below.  I mean:  it turned into a mirror at the command of our spasms.  Neurochemical spasms."

p 168 (translation by Natasha Wimmer - Picador)

Jorge Luis Borges - El Libro de las mil y una noches

Longtime Nights admirer and writer who can hold his own just fine Jorge Luis Borges speaks about El Libro de las mil y una noches. This 40+ minute recording is part of a series of lectures he gave on literature in 1977 (en Spanish):

el ladron de bagdad - argentina

This is a picture from an ebay auction at the moment, it's an Argentine movie poster for The Thief of Bagdad (1940), it's currently listed as "buy it now" for $1800+.

Not sure why it's so expensive, but it looks great:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-THIEF-OF-BAGDAD-SABU-BERGER-POWELL-1940-VENTURI-MOVIE-POSTER-1031-/150873825166?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2320c7df8e

Free Online Versions of the Nights

I'm going to add to this over time (and put a link to this page on the main blog menu on the right) as I come across them but this page is a list of links to freely accessible well known versions of the 1001 Nights.

English Versions:

- Wollamshram.ca - This website has complete versions of the following: 1. Richard Burton's complete 16 volume set (including hyperlinked footnotes), 2. Jonathan Scott's 1890 version, 3. JW Scott's Jack Hardin's Arabian Nights (1903), 4. John Payne's 9 volume Nights, his Tales from the Arabic and his Alaeddin, 5. WF Kirby's The New Arabian Nights (1883), 6. Andrew Lang's Arabian Nights (1898), 7. Edward Lane's Arabian Nights (1909 - edited by Stanley Lane-Poole), 8. E. Dixon's Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights (1893) and More Tales (1895) and several other derivative versions and single stories. The best source for English versions online and collected in one place.

link: http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/index.htm



- Little Hunchback. From the Arabian Nights Entertainments. In Three Cantos (1817). This is a three canto poem derived from the Hunchback story of the Nights, published first in London, England.

link: http://www.archive.org/stream/littlehunchbackf00londiala#page/n0/mode/2up



Spanish:

Las mil y una noches - Translated by Vicente Blasco Ibanez. According to the Arabian Nights Encyclopedia the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is said to have been inspired by this particular version (p. 561 vol. 2).

Link: http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Las_mil_y_una_noches




Arabic Versions:

Calcutta II online

Thanks to Moti (>http://moti-kagan.blogspot.com) for passing on the online version of Calcutta II of the Arabian Nights (1001 Nights) linked below, free and complete and in Arabic with a nice looking script too.

Unfortunately the book is scanned backwards! And it starts with the last page!

I'll try to contact Google books about it.

Here is the link to the Calcutta II online version:

http://books.google.ca/books?id=COgNAAAAYAAJ




Bulaq - 


Here is the 1863 Bulak Edition of Alf Laila wa Laila complete and online for free (in Arabic):

Volume one:

http://www.archive.org/details/alflailwalail01bulauoft

Volume two:

>http://www.archive.org/details/alflailwalail02bulauoft

Volume three:

>http://www.archive.org/details/alflailwalail03bulauoft

Voume four:

>http://www.archive.org/details/alflailwalail04bulauoft

tin tan - las mil y una noches (1958)

Here's a pdf of a poster for the film Las Mil y Una Noches starring Mexican actor/comedian Tin Tan (wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_tan).

1001 Nights Spanish Poster

You can actually also find the entire film in pieces on youtube. Here is part one: