Aus Tausend und Ein Tag (partially found Germany stop-motion TV series based on The Thousand and One Days; 1976-1977)

Title Card of the series

Status: Partially Found

Aus Tausend und Ein Tag (a.k.a Aus 1001 Tag, translation "The Tales from 1001 Days") is a German stop-motion TV series aired by Germany TV broadcasters SWR (Südwestrundfunk) and BR (Bayerischer Rundfunk) between 1976 and 1977 and produced by Kelir Trickfilm G.M.B.H., based on The Thousand and One Days (Les mille et un jours), a collection of stories written by 18th century French orientalist François Pétis de la Croix. The show was distributed by German international distribution company Transtel (now Deutsche Welle) to Arabic countries such as Iraq and Lebanon, China, Malaysia^[1], and Uruguay in the 1980s, where it was dubbed and aired.

Plot

"Princess Zulekha sees a handsome prince one day from behind a rose and falls in love at first sight. Since then, the princess has been in love with the strange prince, and she grows weaker and weaker day by day. The clever servants decide to make her forget about the prince by telling her the story of The Thousand and One Days, based on Thousand and One Nights."

Staff

Cast - E.Müller, Kath-Meyer
Animation - X. Bachmer
Editor - T. Mensens
Production Manager - U. Schenk
Music - Haensch-Conzelmann
Camera - K, Fraunholz
Director - W. Pfäffinger

Episode List

#	Original Title	English Translation	Original Air Date^[2]	Based	Status
1	Die Pantoffeln des Geizigen	The Slippers of the Miser	Dec 5, 1976	Story of the Old Slippers^[3]	Lost
2	Die Geschichte vom Kadi, der in die eigene Grube fiel	The Story of the Kadi who fell into his Own pit	Dec 12, 1976	Unknown	Found (Arabic dub)
3	Die Geschichte von der schönen und treuen Aruja	The Story of the beautiful and Faithful Aruja	Dec 19, 1976	Unknown	Lost
4	Der fliegende Koffer	The Flying Suitcase	Dec 26, 1976	Story of Malek and the Princess Schirine^[4]	Lost
5	Die Geschichte Vom Weisen Al Sid	The Story of the Wise Al Sid	Jan 2, 1977	Unknown	Partially Found (Arabic dub)
6	Die Geschichte vom Derwisch Abunadar	The Story of the Dervish Abunadar	Jan 9, 1977	Unknown	Lost
7	Die Listige Frau	The Cunning Woman	Jan 16, 1977	Unknown	Found
8	Seltsame Geschichten Aus Kaz Vin	Strange stories from Kaz Vin	Jan 23, 1977	Unknown	Lost
9	Die Leute aus Kaz Vin	The People from Kaz Vin	Jan 30, 1977	Unknown	Lost

Availability

On November 19, 2016, YouTube user mimu9370 uploaded the complete video of the original German dub of episode 7.

YouTube user Iyad Hussein (اياد حسين) uploaded Arabic dubs of a partial recording of episode 5 on November 1, 2016 and episode 7 on May 24, 2020, re-dubbed by his team. On August 25, 2019, YouTube user Ali Sadik Archive uploaded video of the Arabic dub of episode 2.

The original German dub of the episodes currently available online is only in episode 7, and the original German dub of episode 5 and 2 are not available, although the Arabic re-dubbed version frrom episode 5 by Iyad Hussein was probably dubbed from the original German dub.

According to mimu9370, SWR has a service (now closed) where one can order recordings of the show, and presumably he ordered episodes 5 and 7 and provided both resources to Iyad Hussein. mimu9370 also said that SWR's archive only owns 4 episodes of the show. He said that he may possibly own the show's archive at BR as well^[5].

Gallery

Original German dub of episode 7 uploaded by mimu9370.

Arabic dub of episode 2 uploaded by Ali Sadik Archive.

Arabic re-dubbing of episode 5 by Iyad Hussein and his team.

Note

In China, the show aired on Guangdong Television on November 29, 1983^[6]. A series of children's books based on the show were also published in China in April 1985 by a company called Tianjin People Art Publishing^[7].

Only the opening and partial screenshots of episode 2 as it aired in China, and a TV guide newspaper featuring the show are available on the Internet^[8].

A footage of the opening of episode 2.