00:00She only has two legs, not eight.
00:02Shocking.
00:04She doesn't have any feelers.
00:08Forget about her feelers.
00:11She has no thorax.
00:14Hey.
00:15Horrible.
00:16Sad.
00:17Revolting.
00:19Insects, grab your partners.
00:23Ladies' choice.
00:30May I?
00:32I suppose.
00:35Why, Joe, you poor thing.
00:39How ever did you get stuck with such a wretched little creature?
00:43I can barely stand to look at her.
00:46Her lack of arms and legs is appalling.
00:49Just turn me away from her.
00:51Just turn me away.
00:53Oh, oh, oh, me!
01:00Gentle lady, come.
01:11Ooh!
01:13What's the matter, Joseph?
01:15I'm sorry, but you are just going to have to leave.
01:19But why?
01:20Because, dear little lady, no one here likes you but me.
01:24You don't belong here.
01:26All that summer, Thumbelina lived alone in the big forest.
01:38Weaving a soft bed for herself from the tall grass,
01:41she hung it beneath a large burdock leaf
01:44to shield herself from the rains.
01:47For food, she ate the sweet pollen from the summer flowers
01:50and drank the water of the morning dew.
01:54And thus the summer passed.
01:56And the fall passed quickly, too,
01:58bringing on its heels the bitter cold
02:00and icy winds of winter.
02:03Oh, how she longed to go home.
02:17But poor Thumbelina no longer knew where home was.
02:21All she knew for sure
02:22was that she must find someone to help her soon
02:26or she would die of the cold.
02:28It's so cold, so cold.
02:33Who is that dancing on my roof?
02:37I didn't know this mound was anybody's home.
02:40Anybody?
02:41I'm not just anybody.
02:43I'm Miss Gray Mouse.
02:46You come now, come with me.
02:48You might as well warm yourself inside.
02:50You'll make less noise.
02:51Why are you crying?
03:01I'm so cold.
03:03Cry won't warm you.
03:05And I'm so hungry.
03:08Then you should eat.
03:11Oh, thank you.
03:13I don't eat much.
03:15I don't eat much.
03:21There.
03:23Now I'm warm and full.
03:27If that's all it takes to fill you up,
03:30you must stay with me all winter.
03:32And you will become my little helper.
03:35May I come in?
03:37Ah, it's Myron Mole.
03:39Come in.
03:40Sit down, Sir Mole.
03:42How are you feeling?
03:44I am tired.
03:46What were you doing?
03:47I was counting all my riches.
03:51I have so much that I can't keep count.
03:54Uh-huh.
03:55What you need is a little helper.
03:58He would probably steal from me.
04:01Not if she were your wife.
04:03Thumbelina!
04:05Put these on and go outside.
04:08I want to speak to Myron in private.
04:10Here, wear this blanket.
04:12It's cold out there.
04:13If you want my opinion, Myron,
04:24what you really need is a good wife.
04:27You have to feed a wife.
04:30And wives always eat much too much.
04:33Some wives eat only half a seed.
04:36Once a day.
04:37Ha!
04:38Fairy tales.
04:39Not fairy tales.
04:41The truth.
04:42Listen.
04:43Goodness.
04:46What's that?
04:48A bird.
04:51Poor thing.
04:54She shouldn't be here.
04:56She doesn't belong this far north.
04:59She'll die of the cold.
05:04Oh.
05:05Oh, no.
05:07She's falling.
05:09Oh, my.
05:10Oh, my.
05:13Like ice.
05:19She's frozen.
05:24Thump.
05:26Thump.
05:27Thump.
05:28She's alive.
05:32I'll warm her.
05:33Marriage.
05:50I'll think about it.
05:52She only eats half a seed a day.
06:00That's not too bad.
06:04I'll marry.
06:06But wait.
06:08Let's see.
06:09How much is that a year?
06:14365 days.
06:16One hundred and eighty-two and a half seeds a year.
06:25That's an awful lot of seeds in a year.
06:29Nope.
06:31Nope, nope.
06:32I won't marry.
06:34Nope.
06:34All winter long, Thumbelina tended to the swallow, snuggled warmly in the hut she had fashioned
06:44from twigs.
06:46Gray mouse kept her busy with chores, but Thumbelina was never too tired to tend to her friend.
06:53At last, winter was over, and it was time for the swallow to wake up for spring.
07:10There.
07:12Wake up now.
07:15Wake up.
07:16Spring is here, dear swallow.
07:21Feel the sun.
07:24Ah, springtime.
07:29If it wasn't for you, I would never see this sunlight.
07:33Oh, thank you, sweet child.
07:36And be happy.
07:39Goodbye.
07:39Goodbye.
07:44Be happy too, swallow.
07:46All that spring and through the summer, Myron Mole spent counting and thinking, thinking
07:59and counting.
08:00Finally, he decided to marry.
08:03Goodness!
08:05This is your lucky day, my child.
08:07Guess what?
08:09Sir Mole just asked to marry you.
08:11In only a month, you will be his wife.
08:14Oh, oh.
08:16I understand you're overwhelmed.
08:24On the day of Thumbelina's wedding to Sir Mole, the tiny bride looked beautiful, though
08:30her face was filled with sadness.
08:34Ah, here he comes, and he wants to give you a wedding gift.
08:38What do you wish?
08:43I would like to say goodbye to the sun.
08:47Strange wish.
08:49But if that's what you want, go and say goodbye.
08:54But come back here as soon as you're done.
08:58Why would anyone want to say goodbye to the sun?
09:09Goodbye, beautiful sun.
09:12I will never see your light again.
09:14I was trying to make a home for myself in the dark world underground.
09:26Goodbye.
09:27Thumbelina!
09:29Swallow!
09:30Swallow!
09:30Oh!
09:32Oh!
09:32I'm happy to see you, my dear.
09:35Where are you flying to?
09:36To a warm place.
09:39Please, take me with you.
09:41I'd be happy to.
09:44Ah!
09:46What are you doing?
09:48Come back here!
09:49Come back!
09:50Ah!
09:51Come back!
09:52It's your wedding day!
09:53You marry him!
09:54Stop this minute!
09:55Stop you!
09:55You are the two who belong together!
09:57Stop!
09:58Come back here!
09:59You are the one who belong together!
10:00What's going on?
10:02Come back!
10:03This is an outrage!
10:05Can you see what's happening?
10:06I can't see anything!
10:08The kind swallow carried tiny Thumbelina far away from her unhappy life beneath the ground.
10:15To where she was not sure.
10:18She wished the bird could take her back to the huge house with the kind lonely woman.
10:23Back to her walnut shell bed.
10:25And the place she had once called home.
10:29Yet in her heart she carried a secret dream.
10:32That perhaps this warm place the swallow spoke of would be even better than her old home.
10:44Welcome to my winter home, child.
10:48Choose the most beautiful flower you can find.
10:52And make it your own.
10:54My own perch will be close by.
10:58Over there.
11:00It's all so perfect, swallow.
11:05Thank you!
11:08Suddenly the flowers opened and out to greet her swarmed a group of tiny fairies no bigger than Thumbelina herself.
11:15Thumbelina was overcome with the wonderful sensation that at last she was home.
11:21Thumbelina, what is your name?
11:22What is your name, beautiful?
11:26Thumbelina?
11:28Thumbelina?
11:30Thumbelina?
11:31Thumbelina?
11:31Ah, what a perfectly lovely name.
11:36Please, be my wife, Thumbelina.
11:39You must.
11:40If you say no, I'll die of loneliness.
11:46Ah, I'm dying.
11:50Don't I?
11:54Yes, I will marry you.
11:59And so Thumbelina had finally found her rightful place in this big, wide world.
12:06Her heart was filled with the joy of knowing that this was where she truly belonged,
12:12and that she would never be lonely again.
