Chicken on the Street

1938 Animation 9 minutes Directed by Panteleymon Sazonov

About Chicken on the Street

Cubs, elephants, and a hen ignore the rules of the street and get into trouble. The short is a lesson in how to behave in traffic, aimed at pedestrians as well as drivers.

Cast & crew

More about Chicken on the Street

Panteleimon Sazonov wrote and directed the drawn short at Soyuzmultfilm in 1938. Ya. Reitman and Vlad Bochkarev were the art directors. K. Krylova was the camerawoman. S. Rensky recorded the sound. Iosif Kovner wrote the music. Animators included Lidiya Reztsova, Faina Epifanova, and Boris Dezhkin.

Themes

  • Traffic rules for children
  • Animals who will not wait at the curb
  • hen
  • traffic
  • pedestrians
  • Soyuzmultfilm
  • children's cartoon

Look

K. Krylova photographed the cels.

Music

Iosif Kovner composed the score. S. Rensky was the sound recordist.

Preservation

The short is in the public domain in Russia, the copyright term having expired.

Notes

  • The Russian title is Курица на улице.
  • Russian Wikipedia calls it the first Soyuzmultfilm cartoon about traffic rules.
  • The running time on the studio record is 9 minutes 27 seconds.
  • Animator.ru lists it as film 2891.