Кем быть?
About Кем быть?
A brother and sister, the Knopochkins, talk through the jobs they might take. Each trade is played out as its own drawn scene. Dmitry Babichenko directed the Soyuzmultfilm short from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s children’s poem of the same name. The English sense of the title is What Shall I Be?
Cast & crew
More about Кем быть?
Babichenko and Yuri Ganf wrote the script. Grigory Kozlov was the designer. Mikhail Druyan photographed it. Nikolai Ivan-Radkevich wrote the music. S. Rensky recorded the sound. Russian Wikipedia times it at 9 minutes 52 seconds. Animators include Boris Dyozhkin, Renata Mirenkova, Elizaveta Komova, Yevgeny Trunov, Nikolai Fyodorov, and Gennady Filippov.
Themes
Making
Babichenko turned the poem into a run of job sketches, with Kozlov designing and Ivan-Radkevich scoring each trade.
Look
Mikhail Druyan photographed the drawn trades.
Music
Nikolai Ivan-Radkevich wrote the music. S. Rensky was the sound recordist.
Notes
- The children are a pair, not one boy imagining alone.
- The poem is Mayakovsky’s. The film is Babichenko’s 1948 cartoon, not a reading of the verse on a bare stage.
- Lidia Kyaksht is the editor on the Ukrainian Wikipedia credit list.
- Animator.ru lists it as number 2970.
Scenes
- The Knopochkins name a trade and the picture plays that job.
- The next trade replaces the last.
Influenced by
- Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poem Кем быть?
