Most memorable is the scene where the tyrannical King finishes a handsome self-portrait, and then that ideal version of himself steps out of the painting, throws him to his demise, and then just is the King from then on. The mortal man replaced by his own propaganda.
Having watched the 'inferior' dub, I will say the film itself does live up to the praise… despite being ostensibly a Hans Christian Anderson adaptation, the worldbuilding is quite good, with visual motifs and themes that connect it to expressionistic art and film of the 30s.
Read an article about how the "unfinished" 1952 version of the animation La Bergère et le Ramoneur was a huge influence on Hayao Miyazaki, and also that the English dub doesn't have all the scenes, so I searched for the French original, and the first result was /r/lostmedia
