AATV Classic Theater#17 "Silent Snow, Secret Snow" / "The Trojan
"Silent Snow, Secret Snow" (1966) is Conrad Aiken's best-known short story, often included in anthologies of classic American horror and fantasy short fiction. It appeared in The Collected Stories of Conrad Aiken in 1934, and since then has been widely
anthologized. First Feature The story tells of a boy named Paul Hasleman,
who finds it increasingly difficult to pay attention to his classwork and grows more distant from his family. He is, instead,
becoming more and more entranced by daydreaming about snow. This began when he was lying in bed one morning, awaiting the
approach of the postman. Unable to hear the expected footfalls, the boy imagines that they have been muffled by newly fallen
snow and is surprised when he looks out the window and discovers that there is no snow on the ground. Paul's
increasing distance and indifference to the world around him alarms his parents. He had to struggle to get dressed and converse
with others, because of the allure of his daydream about snow. They eventually call in a physician, who makes a house call
to examine him. After revealing that he likes to think about snow, Paul tears himself away from the meeting with the physician
and retires to his room. When his mother pursues him, he tells her "Go away... I hate you!" and is lost in the dreamworld
of the snow.[1] by Wikipedia
Second Feature is the
animated classic The Trojan Horse (1960).
The Trojan Horse refers to the stratagem that allowed the Greeks to finally enter
the city of Troy during the Trojan War. In the best-known version of this Bronze Age story, after a fruitless 10-year siege
of Troy, the Greeks built a huge figure of a horse, in which a select force of men hid. The Greeks pretended to sail away,
and the Trojans pulled the Horse into their city as a victory trophy. That night the Greek force crept out of the Horse and
opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of night. The Greek army entered and destroyed
the city, decisively ending the war. A "Trojan Horse" has come to mean any trick that causes a target to invite
a foe into a securely protected bastion or place.Mel-O-Toons sometimes erroneously called "Mello Toons", was a series
of animated cartoons produced in 1960 by New World Productions and syndicated by United Artists. It featured various folk
tales, Greco-Roman myths, Biblical stories, some original stories by author Thornton Burgess, classic stories, even adaptations
of classical music and ballet. This 30 minute DVD with AATV's Exclusive
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