| Creator: | Michel Ocelot |
| Director: | Michel Ocelot |
| Starring: | Sophie Edmond Cyrille Artaux Eric Bottom Philippe Destre Pierre Jarillon Patrice Leroy |
| Theme Music Composer: | Alain Marchal[1] |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Producer: | Didier Brunner[2] |
| Editor: | Michèle Péju[3] |
| Runtime: | 26 minutes |
| Network: | Canal+ |
Tales of the Night (French: French: Les Contes de la nuit) is a 1992[4] French silhouette animation television special written and directed by Michel Ocelot. It aired on Canal+ in France, ZDF in Germany and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.[5] It is a trilogy of three further fairy tales in much the same format as Ciné si.
A boy, a girl and an old technician get together in an abandoned cinema to invent stories, the boy and the girl play after then made costumes. The three stories are "French: La Belle Fille et le sorcier" ("The Pretty Girl and the Sorcerer"), "French: Bergère qui danse" ("The Dancing Shepherdess") and "French: Le Prince des joyaux" ("The Prince of Jewels"). Unlike La Princesse insensible and Ciné si, Tales of the Night is on 35mm film.[6]
"Le Prince des joyaux" was also shown in French cinemas in 1994[7] (and later released on VHS)[8] as part of the Folimage-organised package film Le Petit Cirque et autres contes.[9] All three individual segments (though still lacking the original opening, ending and bridging segments) were made available on DVD-Video with the release of Les Trésors cachés de Michel Ocelot in 2008.