Golden Key is a feature film created based on the play of the same name by Alexei Tolstoy in 1939 . Partially shot as a game and as a puppet cartoon. In particular, a number of scenes with the participation of puppet characters (primarily Pinocchio ) are made in the technique of puppet animation, and the rest are played by actors in "doll" costumes (including in the same frame with human characters, where the illusion of difference in height was achieved by visually combining the far and near plan).
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| Genre | fairy tale movie |
| Producer | Alexander Ptushko |
| Author script | Alexey Tolstoy Lyudmila Tolstaya Nikolay Leshchenko |
| In the main cast | Olga Shaganova-Obraztsova Alexander Schagin Sergey Martinson George Uvarov Tamara Adelheim |
| Operator | Nikolai Renkov |
| Composer | Leo Schwartz |
| Film company | Mosfilm |
| Duration | 78 minutes |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Year | 1939 |
| IMDb | ID 0032162 |
Content
Story
Adventure tale of a wooden doll carved from logs by organ grinder Carlo . Pinocchio is experiencing amazing adventures and defeating all his enemies. Many of the storylines of the original play are different from the story "The Golden Key, or The Adventures of Pinocchio ." In accordance with the play, the final film was also shot. Pinocchio and his friends open the cherished door with a golden key, get to the magic book and, on the plane that descended from its pages, set off together with Soviet polar explorers to a country where "all children study in schools and old people live gloriously."
Cast
| Character | Original Artist (1939) | Voice actor (1959) |
| Carabas-barabas | Alexander Schagin | |
| Duremar | Sergey Martinson | |
| Pinocchio | Olga Shaganova-Obraztsova | George Vitsin |
| Papa carlo | Georgy Uvarov / Anatoly Orfenov (vocals) | |
| Captain of the airship | Nikolay Bogolyubov | |
| Giuseppe | Mikhail Dagmarov | George Vitsin |
| Malvina | Tamara Adelheim | |
| Pierrot | Raisa Khairova | |
| Sandro, the Tavern | Nikolay Michurin | |
| Basilio | Kirill Nikiforov | |
| Alice | Valentina Pokorskaya | Julia Yulskaya |
| S. Sonnenburg | ||
| A. Vasilieva | ||
| F. Tikhonova | ||
New Edition
After 20 years, in 1959 , the film found a new sound. The most noticeable changes when re-playing are the other timbre of Pinocchio's voice and the accent in the name of Pope Carlo on the first syllable (in the original version - on the last). Also, for the last couplet of the final song, a new text was written. In addition, in the new edition, the background and font of the captions and names are changed, and at the very beginning there is the Mosfilm logo. Many texts have been redone, for example, a scene with a lesson in arithmetic. In the original edition of 1939, the text adheres to the book:
So I won’t give an apple to Nekt, even though he’s fighting!
At the 1959 edition, the editors reduced the replicated and remounted replicas. The result looks like this:
“Suppose you have two apples in your pocket.” One thing you gave Pierrot.
- And I won’t give him!
Camera crew
- Script writers: Alexey Tolstoy , Lyudmila Tolstaya, Nikolay Leshchenko
- Director: Alexander Ptushko
- Operator: Nikolai Renkov
- Artist: Yuri Shvets
- Dolls, masks, costumes and decorations: Valentin Kadochnikov
- Composer: Leo Schwartz
- Songwriter: Michael Froman
- Original scoring of 1939
- Sound engineer: A. Bondaryov
- Conductor: Vasily Shirinsky
- New scoring of 1959
- Sound engineer: M. Blyakhina
- Film Production Orchestra
- Conductor: Algis Juraitis
- Director: S. Ter-Voskanyan
Video Release
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the film was released on VHS videotapes by the Krupny Plan association, later by Format A company. Also released on VHS and DVD by Master Tap and Soyuz Video Studios. Currently, both versions of the film are published on DVD - the original (1939) and re-sounded (1959).
Movie ratings
The outstanding animator and director I.P. Ivanov-Vano wrote: “Not only ordinary viewers, but also many experts were surprised at the skill of the combined filming in this film. Not without reason, the “Golden Key” later became the “handbook”, a visual aid not only for operators of combined filming, but also for all lovers of animation ” [1] .
The film expert Nina Sputnitskaya described the process of creating the film and rated it as follows: “This film to this day remains an example of filigree work on the optical combination of a large person and a small doll in the frame” [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Ivanov-Vano, 1980 , p. 95.
- ↑ Sputnitskaya, 2018 , p. 36.
Literature
- Ilyina M. The story of the old doll: how the film "Golden Key" was shot // The World of the Museum. - 2005. - No. 10. - S. 36-39.
- Shaganova-Obraztsova O. From notes of Pinocchio // Science and Life . - 1982. - No. 11. - p. 138-142.
- Ivanov-Vano I.P. Frame by frame. - M .: Art, 1980. - S. 95. - 240 p.
- Sputnitskaya N.Yu. Little bird. Rowe: A workshop of Russian film fantasy. - Moscow, Berlin: Direct Media, 2018. - P. 36-40. - 371 p.
- Karyukov M. New methods of combined shooting / E. Nefyodova. - M .: Goskinoizdat, 1939 .-- S. 134. - 140 p. - 2700 copies.
Links
- The Golden Key on the Internet Movie Database
- "Golden Key" on the site Animator.ru
- Song from the movie "Golden Key" "Far, Far Overseas ..." listen online. SovMusic.ru.
- "Golden Key" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"