my fair ship
Channel: Capri-Omni
Date: 2012-12-23

I was hit with the inspiration for this song, when I thought about the phrase "Once UPON a time--" as if time were a thing with mass, that could support a story (and carry the imaginations of the listeners or readers) in the same way that the ocean can carry a ship.

I included the verse about "The winter dark" because in  several cultures, the telling of magical tales is reserved for winter.  And in Shakespeare's time and place, what we call "fairy tales" would be called "winter's tales."

All the still images in this video, but one, were adapted from from images taken from Wikimedia Commons. A "citation list" is included below:

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First image:
By PDphoto [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AOcean_surface_wave.jpg

Second Image: 
Master W with the Key (fl. 1465--1490) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMaster_W_with_the_Key_ship.jpg

Third Image:
By various (Scan from the original book)[see page for license], via Wikimedia Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ADie_Gartenlaube_(1887)_b_828.jpg

Fourth Image:
Willem van de Velde the Younger [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AShips_Riding_Quietely_at_Anchor_(Willem_van_de_Velde%2C_the_younger).jpg

Fifth Image:
By Joseph Martin Kronheim (1810--96)[1] [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APictures_of_English_History_Plate_XVIII_-_Wreck_of_the_'White_Ship'.jpg

Sixth Image:
See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APerrault_1695_Contes.jpg

Seventh Image:
G. Groenewegen (1789). Verzameling van Vier en tachtig Stuks Hollandsche Schepen. J. van den Brink, Rotterdam
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groenewegen.E11.Groenlandsvaarder.jpg#file

Eighth Image:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABurne-Jones-Viking_Ship.jpg
Edward Burne-Jones
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

Ninth Image:
By various (Scan from the original book)[see page for license], via Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.   org/wiki/File%3ADie_Gartenlaube_(1892)_b_505.jpg

Tenth Image:
By Саврасов А. К. (Unknown) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASavrasov_winter_night.JPG

Eleventh Image:
My own work.