Fox the Builder
About Fox the Builder
A lion's hens keep disappearing, so he puts up a high wooden fence. The fox, who has been taking the hens, brings him a plan for the fence with hidden gaps. When the work is done she slips into the henhouse at night. Some hens get away. The lion chases her, and he is too late.
Cast & crew
More about Fox the Builder
Panteleymon Sazonov directed this drawn short, his last. Semyon Nagorny wrote it from a Krylov fable. Iosif Kovner wrote the music. Soyuzmultfilm released it in 1950. The Russian title is Лиса-строитель. It is a remake of a 1936 cartoon. Wikimultia times it at 10 minutes.
Themes
Music
Iosif Kovner wrote the score.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The fox's plan includes secret ways through the fence into the henhouse.
- It is Sazonov's last film.
- The 1936 cartoon of the same fable is the one this remakes.
- The Russian title is Лиса-строитель.
Scenes
- The fox shows the lion a fence plan that leaves her a way in.
- She is in the henhouse the night the fence is finished.
Influenced by
- A fable by Ivan Krylov
