Much worse is Jodocus, the rhinoceros, a cunning, money-grubbing animal who came from far away to settle in the land of the late King Nobel.
Yes, he does steal a few chickens, but that's the way he is. This time, however, it is not Reynard who is the villain. 'And it will always be that way.'" The final sentence of the Dutch novel, Van den vos Reynaerde, is just as innocent as the face of Reynard the Fox. "Even on his way home, Reynard succeeded in catching a fat hen. However, Reynard was never shown publicly and in the turmoil of the war was lost in 1991, a fragment of the film was unearthed in Germany, thus permitting us to get a closer look at this fascinating film. Its most ambitious project was Van den vos Reynaerde ( About Reynard the Fox), an outrightly anti-Semitic film, and one of the first animated color films made in Holland. In 1941, Nederland Film was set up in The Hague by a member of the NSB (Dutch National Socialist) party with the aid of the occupying Germans to make animated films with a Nazi point of view.
2, 1994), which in turn was revised and translated from "Reynaert en het Jodenbeest" (Reynard and the Jew Animal), that appeared in De Volkskrant, May 25, 1991. This article is adapted from "'Van den vos Reynaerde' (1943): How a Medieval Fable Became a Dutch Anti-Semitic Animation Film" that appeared in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (vol.
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