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The children's writer Korney Chukovsky gets calls on his new telephone from various forest animals.
When a witch transforms her brothers into swans, a young princess must find a way to change them back.
A program consisting of individual musical numbers.
A prince discovers an enchanted beauty turned into a frog by Koschei the Immortal. After Koschei steals her again, the prince goes on a dangerous quest to free the land of the evil.
The tale about an old, henpecked man whose new friend fulfills all desires of his wife.
After getting lost in the street, a dog is adopted by a kindly clown.
The film is a visual accompaniment to Honegger's music representing the progress of a transcontinental locomotive. The superimposed orchestra rhythmically reinforces the music.
A mostly lost Soviet Union stop-motion version of this classic fairytale. The only surviving scene is called "Market".
An early Soviet New Year cartoon with Grandpa Frost celebrating the holiday in the woods with other forest critters. But the wolves try to steal the presents for themselves and eat his reindeer.
A little girl is walking around the city with a bunch of bagels. All the bagels are eaten by a dog that follows her while the little girl was looking around. The girl is upset, but she is comforted by her grandmother, who gives her a magic flower that grants wishes...
According to legend, Chapaev does not die, but with the help of magical powers, fairy-tale animals and plants, he becomes a real hero.
A water seller during the time of the Spanish Inquisition in Grenada rescues a stranded Moor by the roadside, which leads to uncovering a legend.
The only surviving scene from The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda, a satirical animated opera that mixed fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin, music by Dmitri Shostakovich and Russian avant-garde.
One day, while walking through the jungle, the Girl saw in a cage a Tiger caught by hunters. Having pity on him, she released the striped predator. Instead of gratitude, Tiger prepared to eat the Girl. In response to the complaints of the Girl, Tiger declared that there was no justice on earth. To resolve the dispute, they turned to the Parrot and the Palm .
A remake of the 1929 adaptation of the eponymous poem by Samuil Marshak on the life of postal workers around the world.
A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby. Since he doesn't want to fall asleep, she turns to her neighbors for help.
A boy is sitting at a table, writing a letter for Boris Prutkov. The cartoon follows the journey of this letter from Rostov to Leningrad, where its addressee Prutkov has just left for Berlin; when the letter arrives in Berlin, Prutkov has just departed for London; as the letter arrives in London, Prutkov is already on a steamboat to Brazil, and once the letters is delivered by postman Don Basilio, Prutkov is already on his way back to Leningrad– where the letter, having followed Prutkov around the world, finally reaches him. The film sings a song of praise to the global postal services and to the reliability of the postmen, but it also tells the story of a journey around the world, returning once more to the new Soviet capital: Leningrad.
An experimental short comprising a few dance numbers.
