The Tale Teller

The Tale Teller is an animated Flash movie created by Josiah Brooks (JAZZA) and was submitted on August 30th of 2016 on Newgrounds, while it was uploaded on YouTube a bit earlier on July 16th. This animation is about an old travelling storyteller who went to the city to passing down stories that he had gathering for years before he dies. 
== Plot ==
The story begins with a narrator introduce to a setting of city and an old man that were named The Tale Teller, who walked around the streets of the city at night, before he rested in the square, with the the Tale Teller said "I wish to passed my stories on, before the day i dead." The scene cuts to day with a-lot of busy people in the square, which makes the Tale Teller clapping in joy, until the the little jester throwing his hat to the ground, angrily due to lack of respect as a King Jester. The Tale Teller were sympathetic to the jester feelings as both of them being an outcast. Then the Teller remind him of a tale about a mouse saving a ships crew during the storm, which makes the jester realized his true intentions and immediately runs away before entertaining the crowd with his tricks and performance. But despite this, the Tale Teller forgot to offer a book to the Jester, and so he waited in the square, despite he fear he would not have any food for the next winter. During Autumn, the Teller awoken from his sleep, as he sees a widow with an empty basket sitting right next to him. She tells that her children is waiting for her bringing the food for dinner, but didn't have anything to bring them. The Tale Teller were feel sorry for the widow that he pull his last loaf of bread, wanting to give it to the widow, before then, he tells the story about somewhere far away from here, where a vailed Princess who cannot revealed her beauty due to curse being set upon her, that this until a stranger comes in and freeing her from the curse. Heart warmed by the story, she hugged the Tale Teller before she take the bread and left to feed her children. But the Teller forgot to offer her a book, as she did not notice it. Almost winter, the Tale Teller still sitting in the square wondering if his tale will survive, before he sees a soldier who had returned from war. The soldier was a broken man due to his grief of losing his brother during the war. The Tale Teller sat down with the soldier while hearing the stories about his brother, before the Tale Teller comfort him by telling about an uplifting tale that he never heard before. The soldier gets up with a peaceful heart, gently thanking to the Tale Teller before leaving. But once again, the aging Teller forgot the offer the soldier his book, just as the winter came in. In the blazing winter, were freezing to death while holding his book tightly. He doesn't have anything to think about but whenever if his story will survived, with his last words were "Before the morning, ill be...". The scene cut to the city square during the spring with a group of crowd doing stuff as usual every year. Before then, the jester appear from the crowd searching for the old man, while the widow, and the tall man also searching for him as-well. With each of them heading to the fountain and want to thank him back, but they realized, that Tale Teller did not survived during the winter, with only fragments of his stories survived Heartbroken, they cannot do anything but to shed a small tear. But despite never received the book that the Teller want to offered them, they still has a story that he tell to them. And so, each of them shares a story to the group of people that they still cling on to. 
== Reception ==
As of July of 2024, The Tale Teller garnered around 150k views on Newgrounds, with it won a Daily Feature, Weekly User's Choice, and Review Crew Pack Awards, with an average score of 4.77 out of 5. While on YouTube, it garner around 2.4 Million views and 212K Likes. It also has a 3 bonus video relating to The Tale Teller, with the part one the feature the behind the scenes on the short film, part two about the evolution of modern animations, and part three is about the rise of independent animations on Newgrounds and YouTube. 
Category:Flash cartoons
Category:Dramatic Movies
Category:Everyone
Category:2016