Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy Victor, and in 1960 under the label RCA Camden. In 1959, it was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category "Best Recording for Children". Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy Hansel and Gretel is a 1954 stop motion animated theatrical feature film released by RKO. The film is based on Engelbert Humperdinck's opera "Hänsel und Gretel", and incorporates music and songs from the opera. It was the first American feature-length animated film not made by Disney since 1941's "Mr. Bug Goes to Town" and the first American feature-length animated film not made with traditional animation. It was released on
Hansel and Gretel wealth, they all live happily ever after. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm heard "Hansel and Gretel. " from Wilhelm's friend (and future wife) Dortchen Wild and published it in "Kinder- und Hausmärchen" in 1812. In the Grimms' version of the tale, the woodcutter's wife is the children's biological mother and the blame for abandoning them is shared between both her and the woodcutter himself. In later editions, some slight revisions were made: the wife became the children's stepmother, the woodcutter opposes her scheme to abandon the children and religious references are made. The sequence where the swan helps them across the