If you have not seen the movie Fairy Tale: A Ture Story(1997), do see it. It is a sweet gentle movie that you can see with your grandkids & grandma & not have to worry about language, flesh, or violence.
Here is the Rotten Tomatoes Site on the Movie
I also bought the Sound tract as I thought the music was lovely, soothing, gentle
Now I need to do the “hospital runs & deliver some personal Meals On Wheels to elder family & church folk. Tonight is my Prostate Cancer Support Group, so will be for the most part a lousy hostess (hint, hint)
Across the turbulent Atlantic, as the skies over England and much of Europe grew bright with the flames of the first World War, the people grabbed any means of comfort available so that they would survive the turmoil intact, even if their loved ones didn't. The Spiritualist movement fed the insatiable hunger of those who wanted to believe that there was a means of contacting deceased loved ones in a time of great political and social turmoil. It was in the midst of this unrest that cousins Elsie Wright, age sixteen, and Frances Griffiths, age ten, first picked up a Midg Quarter camera in 1917 and photographed what they insisted were fairies at the bottom of Cottingley glen, Yorkshire, England. Three years later, these photographs would be touted by none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the master detective Sherlock Holmes, as "an epoch-making event -- fairies photographed." Nearly seventy years would pass before that epoch-making event would be exposed as an childish hoax.
In the soon-to-be-released motion picture "Fairy Tale: A True Story," Elsie and Frances are portrayed as younger than they actually were at the time the photos were taken. It also portrays the fairies, which examination of the photographs proves they were not. Frances, who hailed from South Africa, has been sent to live with Elsie's family in Yorkshire, England in 1917 because her father was fighting as a volunteer soldier of the South African contingent. Frances' mother had also moved to England to live temporarily with her sister, which was not mentioned in the film. Elsie's mother, dressed in mourning clothes, refuses to cease mourning for her youngest son -- Elsie's younger brother -- who died from illness. It appears that this younger brother may have been created solely for the film. There is no mention of such a person, or his death, in any of the literature. Nonetheless, the sense of loss is present from the moment the film opens.
The cousins spend a great deal of time playing in the glen, and they take a series of photos which they claim to Elsie's parents depict fairies. Naturally, being children who are prone to engaging in pranks, the adults shrug off the claims, and stuff the plates (Negatives for a Midg camera are glass plates, not the flimsy film to which people today are accustomed.) and photos away where they are all but forgotten for the next three years.