5 mins Animation, Comedy, Family, Short, Musical | Episode aired 1960
Original Title: Mel-O-Toons The Trojan Horse
Cartoon adaptation of the story of end of the Trojan war, from the Iliad by Homer.
Director: Phil Robinson
Stars: Art Gilmore
Original Title: Mel-O-Toons The Trojan Horse
Cartoon adaptation of the story of end of the Trojan war, from the Iliad by Homer.
Director: Phil Robinson
Stars: Art Gilmore
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Short filmTranscript
00:00Many years ago, the brave armies of Greece and Troy were locked in a long, bitter war.
00:14The Trojans had captured a beautiful Greek princess named Helen and held her within their
00:19fortress city of Troy.
00:25It did not seem possible that any man could break into the fortress city of Troy.
00:30For days, weeks, months, the Greek soldiers from their camp on a beach near the city assaulted
00:35the walls of Troy, but they were always beaten back.
00:38Then, Ulysses, a great leader of the Greeks, said to his men, I have a plan.
00:43It is dangerous, but if it works, the Trojans themselves will take us through the gates
00:48of their city.
00:54At the order of Ulysses, the Greek soldiers set to work cutting down huge trees, making
00:59the wood into planks.
01:01From the towers of Troy, the Trojan soldiers watched a big building grow taller and taller
01:06day by day until it was six stories high.
01:10And when the Greeks pulled away all the work ladders and scaffolds, there stood a huge
01:15wooden horse 80 feet tall.
01:39All along the towering walls of Troy, the soldiers and the people gathered to look out
01:43across the plain at the great wooden horse.
01:46They wondered what it was for, what it meant.
01:49The Trojans did not know that Ulysses and five Greek soldiers lay hidden in a dark secret
01:54passage inside the wooden horse.
02:02All through the night, fire blazed brightly on the beach.
02:05The Greeks were burning their tents just as if they were giving up their camp and sailing
02:08back home.
02:10When morning came, not a Greek ship or soldier remained.
02:13But where they had camped stood the great Trojan horse.
02:21The Trojan people poured out of the city to the beach so they could look more closely
02:25at the structure over the Greeks.
02:27The Princess Cassandra, daughter of the king of the Trojans, warned her people of this
02:31Greek gift, but no one would listen.
02:34The Trojans decided to pull the great horse inside the walls into the city of Troy itself.
02:42The Trojans tied thick ropes around the legs of the huge wooden horse.
02:50Hundreds of men took a hand at the ropes.
02:53Others lined up behind the horse.
03:02Whooping and hollering, laughing at the Greeks who had never been able to scale the towering
03:06walls of Troy, the Trojans tugged and pushed and pulled the huge wooden horse slowly from
03:12the beach over the plains and through the gates of Troy.
03:25In the dark, secret passage of the wooden horse, Ulysses and the five soldiers lay quietly
03:31waiting.
03:32They could feel the horse being moved.
03:35What the Trojans had decided to do, neither Ulysses nor his soldiers knew.
03:41Suddenly, after a whole day and half a night, the Trojan horse moved no more.
03:48An hour passed.
03:50Still the horse did not move.
03:53Ulysses gave a signal.
03:54The soldiers felt their way silently down the dark, secret passage following Ulysses.
04:01Cautiously, he opened the trap door.
04:04Just as he hoped, the Trojans had brought the horse inside the walls of Troy.
04:10The city was sleeping now and the walls were unguarded.
04:17Ulysses drew his sword.
04:18He ordered the soldiers to follow and he dashed for the main gates of the city.
04:25The Greek soldiers quickly tied the sleeping Trojan guards while Ulysses scampered up the
04:30sentry tower.
04:32Holding a torch high above his head, he signaled to the Greek army which had turned around
04:36and sailed back to the beach during the night.
04:46And even as Ulysses and his men opened the gates of Troy, the Greek army was marching
04:50across the plain.
04:52Caught completely by surprise, the Trojans were easily defeated by the Greek soldiers
04:57who found their beautiful princess and took her back safely to Greece.
05:01The brave Ulysses was named the greatest of the Greek heroes.