The Thieving Magpie

A king and his hunting party shoot down birds. A magpie escapes the onslaught of arrows and wreaks havoc on the hunting party.

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Set to the familiarly mischievous overture from Rossini’s eponymous opera, this uses a rudimentary but still colourful and vibrant style of hand-drawn animation to tell us the tale of the revenge of the magpie. Everyone knows that these are birds that like to pinch what isn’t their own, so imagine h...

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