Limpopo
About Limpopo
Doctor Aibolit treats the animals who come to him. A call from sick animals in Limpopo sends him to Africa. Other animals carry him across the obstacles, and he arrives in time to treat the patients. Korney Chukovsky wrote the script from his own tale.
Cast & crew
More about Limpopo
Leonid Amalrik and Vladimir Polkovnikov directed and were the art directors. Chukovsky wrote the scenario. Soyuzmultfilm released the drawn cartoon in 1939. Russian Wikipedia times it at 12 minutes. A circulating copy runs 12 minutes 31 seconds. The studio is Soyuzmultfilm, not Soyuzdetfilm.
Themes
Making
Chukovsky adapted his own story, and Amalrik and Polkovnikov both directed and designed the drawings.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Voices billed in the catalog include Vladimir Lepko, Irina Mazing, Andrei Tutyshkin, and Yuliya Yulskaya.
- S. Rensky is credited with the sound.
- Animator.ru lists the film as number 2911.
- The doctor is Aibolit, the name Chukovsky gave his animal physician.
Scenes
- Aibolit treats the animals who come to his door.
- He sets off for Limpopo when the African animals fall ill.
- Animals along the route get him there in time.
Influenced by
- Korney Chukovsky's Doctor Aibolit tale
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1939. Лимпопо.ogv)
