How Vaska the Cat Transferred into Third Grade (Как кот Васька в третий класс перешёл, 1969) by Svetlana Mozhayeva

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How Vaska the Cat Transferred into Third Grade
Как кот Васька в третий класс перешёл
Kak kot Vaska v tretiy klass pereshyol (ru)

Year 1969
Director(s) Mozhayeva Svetlana
Studio(s) Permtelefim
Language(s) Russian
Genre(s) Comedy
Domestic life
Literature (Rus./East Slavic)
Animation Type(s)  Cutout
Length 00:10:03
Wordiness 1.77
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Kak kot Vaska v tretiy klass pereshyol.1969.en.1.25fps.1775865297.srt
Date: April 10 2026 23:54:57
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Description:

A 2nd grade student gets his cat to do his homework, but then comes the exam...

This was the first animated film made for the local television station of the city of Perm. They did not have access to the same equipment and budget as the central and regional animation studios, nor to color film stock, so the film was made in black and white, with paper cutouts.

The story was originally written by Vladimir Vorobyov (1916-1992) in 1965, and can be read here (in Russian).

 

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The film itself is decently well-done despite the obviously very limited resources used to create it. It really highlights, though, how great the difference in production values could be between the central studios in Moscow and more regional and amateur productions. Around this time is when new animation studios were being founded in the capitals most of the other Soviet Republics, and they seem to have actually had decent resources. They always used colour film stock, for one thing. But this did not apply to the city of Perm. The studio this actually most reminds me of is the People's Film Studio of the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute. Their earliest (apparently) film was also made in the same year, and is a bit similar in how it was made.


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