Tales of the Night

Tales of the Night
Still from the segment "Le Prince des joyaux."
Created by	Michel Ocelot
Written by	Michel Ocelot
Directed by	Michel Ocelot
Starring	Sophie Edmond Cyrille Artaux Eric Bottom Philippe Destre Pierre Jarillon Patrice Leroy
Theme music composer	Alain Marchal
Country of origin	France
Original language(s)	French
Production
Producer(s)	Didier Brunner
Editor(s)	Michèle Péju
Running time	26 minutes
Release
Original network	Canal+
Original release	1992 (1992)
Chronology
Preceded by	Ciné si (1989)
Followed by	Dragons et princesses (2010)

Tales of the Night (French: Les Contes de la nuit) is a 1992 French silhouette animation television specialwritten and directed by Michel Ocelot. It aired on Canal+ in France, ZDF in Germany and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. It is a trilogy of three further fairy tales in much the same format as Ciné si.

A boy, a girl and an old technician get together in an abandoned cinema to invent stories, the boy and the girl play after then made costumes. The three stories are "La Belle Fille et le sorcier" ("The Pretty Girl and the Sorcerer"), "Bergère qui danse" ("The Dancing Shepherdess") and "Le Prince des joyaux" ("The Prince of Jewels"). Unlike La Princesse insensible and Ciné si, Tales of the Night is on 35 mm film.

"Le Prince des joyaux" was also shown in French cinemas in 1994 (and later released on VHS) as part of the Folimage-organised package film Le Petit Cirque et autres contes. All three individual segments (though still lacking the original opening, ending and bridging segments) were made available on DVD-Video with the release of Les Trésors cachés de Michel Ocelot in 2008.