Interplanetary Revolution
About Interplanetary Revolution
Capitalists, drawn as bloodsuckers, load their money into a spaceship shaped like a shoe and leave Earth. The sun swallows them. Comrade Cominternov, a Red warrior, follows and lands on a futuristic Mars, where he starts a proletarian revolution that wins.
Cast & crew
More about Interplanetary Revolution
Nikolai Khodataev, Zenon Komissarenko, and Yuri Merkulov wrote and directed this cutout cartoon. It was made in the experimental animation workshop as inserts for Yakov Protazanov's Aelita. The inserts were not used. The short was released on its own in 1924 as a parody and was not shown in theaters. Wikipedia gives 8 minutes. A file of the film runs 7. Almost no intertitles.
Themes
Background
A 1924 Soviet cartoon, made the same year as Aelita and released as a parody of that story.
Making
The three directors built it as Aelita inserts, then put it out separately when Protazanov did not use the footage.
Technique
Cutout animation, with almost no intertitles.
Notes
- A title card frames it as something that might happen in 1929.
- The pursuit ship is a shoe. The sun eats it.
- Cominternov is the commissar who reaches Mars.
- The cartoon uses cut paper, not drawings on cels.
- It was meant for Aelita and then issued alone.
Scenes
- The bourgeoisie lift off in a ship shaped like a shoe.
- Cominternov lands on Mars and the workers win.
Influenced by
- Yakov Protazanov's Aelita (1924)
