Tales for All
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Tales for All is a series of children and family films produced by the company Les Productions la Fête. These films were also published as books.

Partial List of Titles

The films are also referred as Tales for All #1, Tales for All #2, etc.
# Title (English, French) Released in Director Paperback Book Notes #
1 The Dog Who Stopped the War
The Dog Who Stopped the War
The Dog Who Stopped the War, or in original Quebec French La guerre des tuques, is a French Canadian comedy/drama film from Quebec, directed by André Mélançon...


La guerre des tuques
1984
1984 in film
-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

 
André Melançon 
2 The Peanut Butter Solution
The Peanut Butter Solution
The Peanut Butter Solution is a 1985 family film. The movie was directed by Michael Rubbo and is the 2nd in the Tales for All series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête.-Plot:Michael Baskin is an average 11-year old boy...


Opération beurre de pinottes
1985
1985 in film
-Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.* Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie...

 
Michael Rubbo
Michael Rubbo
Michael Dattilo Rubbo is an Australian filmmaker who has written and directed over 50 films in documentary and fiction....

 
ISBN 2890372871 (English)
ISBN 2890372782 (French)
3 Bach and Broccoli
Bach et Bottine
1986
1986 in film
-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....

 
André Melançon 
4 The Young Magician
Le jeune magicien
1987
1987 in film
-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....

 
Waldemar Dziki  ISBN 2920948008 (English)
ISBN 2890373223 (French)
Co-production with Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...


(title: Cudowne dziecko)
5 The Great Land of Small
The Great Land of Small
The Great Land of Small is a 1987 Canadian fantasy children's film. It was written by David Sigmund and directed by Vojtech Jasny. The film starred Michael J. Anderson, in one of his first, and largest, roles...


C'est pas parce qu'on est petit qu'on peut pas être grand!
1987
1987 in film
-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....

 
Vojtěch Jasný
Vojtech Jasný
Vojtěch Jasný is a Czech director who came to prominence in the sixties. He won a Cannes Special Jury Prize for Až přijde kocour/The Cassandra Cat ....

 
ISBN 2920948024 (English)
ISBN 2890373703 (French)
6 Tadpole and the Whale
La grenouille et la baleine
1987
1987 in film
-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....

 
Jean-Claude Lord
Jean-Claude Lord
Jean-Claude Lord is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He was one of the most commercial of the Quebecois directors in the 1970s and aimed his feature films at a mass audience and dealt with political themes in a mainstream, Hollywood style.-Biography:Jean-Claude Lord began his career as...

 
ISBN 2920948040 (English)
7 Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller is the name of a 1988 Canadian film, which was written and directed by Michael Rubbo. It is the seventh in the Tales for All series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête.-Premise:...


Les aventuriers du timbre perdu
1988
1988 in film
-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...

 
Michael Rubbo
Michael Rubbo
Michael Dattilo Rubbo is an Australian filmmaker who has written and directed over 50 films in documentary and fiction....

 
ISBN 2890374270 (French)
8 Summer of the Colt
Fierro... l'été des secrets
1991
1991 in film
The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York* Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.*November...

 
André Melançon  ISBN 2920948067 (English)
ISBN 2890374661 (French)
Co-production with Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

9 Bye Bye, Red Riding Hood
Bye bye, chaperon rouge
1989
1989 in film
-Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...

 
Márta Mészáros
Márta Mészáros
Márta Mészáros is a Hungarian film director. She worked as an English Teachersmeaning? filmmaker in the 1960s, but in the following decade began making films drawing on the oppression of both state and gender...

 
ISBN 2920948083 (English)
ISBN 2890374866 (French)
Co-production with Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

10 The Case of the Witch Who Wasn't
Pas de répit pour Mélanie
1990
1990 in film
The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....

 
Jean Beaudry 
11 Vincent and Me
Vincent and Me
Vincent and Me is a 1990 family film. The movie was directed by Michael Rubbo and is the 11th in the Tales for All series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête....


Vincent et moi
1990
1990 in film
The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....

 
Michael Rubbo
Michael Rubbo
Michael Dattilo Rubbo is an Australian filmmaker who has written and directed over 50 films in documentary and fiction....

 
ISBN 289037520X (French) Co-production with France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

12 Reach for the Sky
La championne
1990
1990 in film
The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....

 
Elisabeta Bostan  ISBN 2890375420 (French) Co-production with Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

13 The Clean Machine
Tirelire Combines & Cie
1992
1992 in film
The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. -Top grossing films:-Awards:Academy AwardsGolden Globe AwardsNational Film Awards...

 
Jean Beaudry 
14 The Flying Sneaker
Danger pleine lune
1990
1990 in film
The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....

 
Bretislav Pojar
Bretislav Pojar
Břetislav Pojar is a puppeteer, animator and director of short and feature films.Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on The Story of the Bass Cello based on the story by Anton Chekhov and directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiří Trnka...

 
ISBN 2890376486 (French)
15 The Return of Tommy Tricker
Le retour des aventuriers du timbre perdu
1994
1994 in film
1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...

 
Michael Rubbo
Michael Rubbo
Michael Dattilo Rubbo is an Australian filmmaker who has written and directed over 50 films in documentary and fiction....

 
ISBN 2890376834 (French)
16 Dancing on the Moon
Viens danser sur la lune
1997
1997 in film
-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

 
Kit Hood
Kit Hood
Kit Hood is a Canadian television director, writer and producer. Kit Hood and Linda Schuyler created a production company called Playing With Time which was established in 1976. The name was inspired by their first educational documentary called Jimmy-Playing With Time . They worked together in...

 
ISBN 2890378233 (French)
Letters from Santa 2000
2000 in film
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....

 
Thomas Draeger 
My Little Devil
Mon petit diable
1999
1999 in film
The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...

 
Gopi Desai 
Regina
Régina
2001
2001 in film
The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

 
María Sigurðardóttir  Co-production with Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

The Hidden Fortress
La forteresse suspendue
2001
2001 in film
The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

 
Roger Cantin  ISBN 2764401000 (English)
ISBN 2845960506 (French)
Summer with the Ghosts
Summer with the Ghosts
Summer with the Ghosts is a direct-to-video film released in 2003 by La Fète and Sterling Entertainment, and is part of the Tales for All series of family movies...


Un été avec les fantomes
2003
2003 in film
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...

 
Bernd Neuburger  Co-production with Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

22 Daniel and The Superdogs
Daniel et les Superdogs
2004
2004 in film
The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...

 
André Mélançon 

DVD Box Sets

In December 2005, Rock Demers
Rock Demers
Rock Demers, is a Canadian film producer.He is the founder of the film company Les Productions la Fête and has produced the Tales for All film series for children....

 announced that films from the Contes Pour Tous series would be released in DVD box sets in Canada through Imavision. These box sets include many new special features, but a great deal were disappointed by the sets when released because the films have no English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

audio or subtitle options.

Coffret Collection 1 (Box Set #1) was bundled with a bonus CD of ten songs from the films, only available through Imavision's website. Coffret Collection 3 (Box Set #3) includes a set of books to correspond with the DVDs.

Coffret Collection 1 (Box Set #1)

Released September 26, 2006 - UPC
  • La guerre des tuques
  • Fierro... l'été des secrets
  • Régina
  • C'est pas parce qu'on est petit qu'on peut pas être grand!
  • Bach et Bottine
  • Mon petit diable


Coffret Collection 2 (Box Set #2)

Released April 10, 2007 - UPC
  • La grenouille et la baleine
  • Bye Bye, Chaperon Rouge
  • Danger Pleine Lune
  • Vincent et moi
  • La Championne
  • Le Jeune Magicien


Coffret Collection 3 (Box Set #3)

Released August 21, 2007 - UPC
  • Le martien de Noël
  • Opération beurre de pinotes
  • Les aventuriers du timbre perdu
  • Le retour des aventuriers du timbre perdu
  • Pas de répit pour Mélanie
  • Tirelire combines & cie

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