The Fir Tree (A New Year Tale)
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Yolka (novogodnyaya skazka) (ru)
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Ёлка (новогодняя сказка)
Yolka (novogodnyaya skazka) (ru)
| Year | 1942 |
| Director(s) | Nosov Pyotr Tsehanovskiy Mihail |
| Studio(s) | Soyuzmultfilm |
| Language(s) | Russian |
| Genre(s) | Christmas/New Year Comedy Musical/Opera |
| Animation Type(s) | Drawn (cel) |
| Length | 00:09:09 |
| Wordiness | 4.2 |
| Animator.ru profile | Ru, En |
Subtitles:
⭳ Yolka (novogodnyaya skazka).1942.en.1.25fps.1702652246.srt
Date: December 15 2023 14:57:26
Language: English
Quality: good
Upload notes: 237 characters long (view)
Creator(s): Niffiwan, Lemicnor₂
⭳ Yolka (novogodnyaya skazka).1942.ru.1.25fps.1701582778.srt
Date: December 03 2023 05:52:58
Language: Russian
Quality: unknown
Upload notes: 175 characters long (view)
Creator(s): Lemicnor, Niffiwan
⭳ Yolka (novogodnyaya skazka).1942.en.1.25fps.1702652246.srt
Date: December 15 2023 14:57:26
Language: English
Quality: good
Upload notes: 237 characters long (view)
Creator(s): Niffiwan, Lemicnor₂
⭳ Yolka (novogodnyaya skazka).1942.ru.1.25fps.1701582778.srt
Date: December 03 2023 05:52:58
Language: Russian
Quality: unknown
Upload notes: 175 characters long (view)
Creator(s): Lemicnor, Niffiwan
Description:
Grandpa Frost (like Santa Claus, but with power over winter storms) celebrates the New Year in the woods with other forest critters, but the wolves try to steal the presents for themselves and eat his reindeer.
This was one of just 5 Soviet cartoons made in 1942, and was made not in Moscow but in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (where the Soyuzmultfilm studio was evacuated during the worst part of the war).
The first video above is better-quality (an official HD restoration from 35mm film), but is in a the slightly-too-fast TV frame rate (25fps). The second video is not as sharp; it is a scan from an archival Betacam tape, but it is in the original theatrical frame rate (24fps).
DISCUSSION
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It's interesting to think about how this lighthearted, snowy film (based on a mixture of northern European pagan and Western Christian folklore) was made at a time of horrific existential war, in a southern Islamic city surrounded by flat, semi-arid plains...
As a film, though - I like the song, and I think the film itself is pretty charming. But as New Year films go, the Soyuzmultfilm studio made a much better one three years later (and a few more classic ones soon thereafter), and I also prefer the 1937 "Silver Rain" made at Mosfilm.