Cheerful old man (cartoon)

The cartoon tells about a never-discouraged little old man who was laughing all the time. Once he decided to catch a dragonfly, but, without calculating, he hit the net. Taking advantage of this, the dragonfly raised it up and dropped it, and he descended into the web. Trying to evade the spider, the old man unraveled the web, and the spider fell with it. With laughter the old man laughed all the vegetation, and the spider ran away and exploded. Then the old man continues to laugh, but soon begins to cry, but not from the death of the spider, but from laughter

• Director - Anatoly Petrov
• Composer - Sandor Kallosh
• Text from the author - Peter Vishnyakov
• Old Man - George Vitsin
• Operator - Mikhail Druyan
• Sound engineer - Vladimir Kutuzov
• Editor - Marina Trusova
• Editor - Arkady Snesarev
• Director - Lyubov Butyrina

When creating the "Old Man Jolly", the then appeared technique of electrography , when it was not necessary to make a contour. This cartoon had a celluloid contour not with a pen, but with a brush, which made it as beautiful as in comics ^[2] .

Censorship

Since the protagonist of the film, in the opinion of the staff of the USSR State Committee for Cinematography, laughed too much, the censors reduced the ending. The Arts Council expressed dissatisfaction, arguing that children who would sit in the halls on velvet chairs could not withstand such a hectic fun and wet the seats. ^[3]

• In the original, the main character meets the spider first, and then the dragonfly, in the cartoon - the opposite.
• In the original, the old man does not interact with either the spider or the dragonfly. In the film, he tries to catch a dragonfly, but she takes him in a net. In the episode with the spider, the old man unravels the web, after which he brings the spider to the point where the latter explodes.

• "Funny old man" on " Animator.ru "
• "Funny old man" (English) on the Internet Movie Database
• "Funny old man" on the site "Encyclopedia of the national cinema"