The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship DVD - 1990 - Robin Bailey, Maurice Denham

The Flying Ship (Russian title Летучий корабль), or The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, is a Russian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book and Arthur Ransome in Old Peter's Russian Tales.

Uri Shulevitz illustrated a version of Ransome's tale, The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, for which he won the Caldecott Medal in 1969. Also, a made-for-television stop motion-animated film with the same name was released in the United Kingdom on 27 December 1990 on ITV. It aired as part of WGBH's children's series, Long Ago and Far Away. Rabbit Ears Productions also produced an audiotape version, featuring Robin Williams with music by the Klezmer Conservatory Band, which was released on Showtime in 1991. It aired as part of Rabbit Ears' series We All Have Tales.[1] In addition, the Terry Gilliam film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) contains several elements inspired by this story, particularly the opening sequence set at the court of the Grand Turk.