The Blue Bird (1918) torrent

Director: Maurice Tourneur

Writers: Maurice Maeterlinck (play) and Charles Maigne

Release Date: 31 March 1918 (USA)


Two peasant children, Mytyl and Tyltyl, are led by Berylune, a fairy, to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. Berylune gives Tyltyl a cap with a diamond setting, and when Tyltyl turns the diamond, the children become aware of and conversant with the souls of a Dog and Cat, as well as of Fire, Water, Bread, Light, and other presumably inanimate things. The troupe thus sets off to find the elusive Blue Bird of Happiness.