“Soviet Toys” is one of the first Soviet animated films created in 1924 by director Dziga Vertov . Production studio Goskino . A film adaptation of the political cartoons of Denis , published in the newspaper Pravda .
| Soviet toys | |
|---|---|
| Cartoon type | hand-drawn |
| Genre | Satire |
| Producer | Dziga Vertov |
| Based | Denis, Victor Nikolaevich |
| written by | |
| Animators | Alexander Ivanov Ivan Belyakov |
| Studio | Goskino |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Duration | 11 minutes |
| Premiere | 1924 |
| IMDb | ID 0140566 |
| Animator.ru | ID 2311 |
Content
Story
The cartoon shows a guzzling and morally decaying bourgeois whose belly, stuffed with countless amounts of money, is ripped open by a "centaur" consisting of a peasant and a worker.
The film ends with a remarkable ending: a Red Army man appears, and all the proletarians formed a “New Year tree”, on which the enemies of Soviet society hung in the form of toys - figures of “class alien elements” - priests, bourgeois-Nepman, etc. [2]
About the cartoon
Dziga Vertov, who is known to have proclaimed and embodied the principles of “film truth” in his work and contrasted the documentary of the all-seeing film eye with the “uplifting deception” of artistic fiction, nevertheless showed great interest in animation - the art of “limitless fantasy”. He was the first to start working on cartoons and included animation in his Kinopravda magazine. These hand-drawn cinema cartoons, similar in spirit and style to Mayakovsky's posters, were the drawn films “Soviet Toys” and “Humoresques” (1924), made using the technique of a flat paper puppet. The animation sought to respond to urgent events and problems.
- Asenin S.V. "Ways of Soviet animation" [3]
Interesting Facts
- The cartoon has been in the public domain since 1994, as it was released over 70 years ago.
Notes
Links
- Soviet toys on " Animator.ru "
- Soviet toys on the site "Encyclopedia of domestic cinema"
- " Soviet Toys ” on the Internet Movie Database
- Dziga Vertov - Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema