Little Kalle's Dream of His Snowman
About Little Kalle's Dream of His Snowman
Kalle goes to bed, then is outside with a headless snowman. He lifts a snowball into place for the head. When the mouth is done, the snowman blows smoke at a cat. Kalle is asleep again. The snowman comes into the room, melts by the stove, comes back, and climbs into the bed. Kalle wakes, looks into the yard, and sees the snowman still without a head. He dreamed it.
Cast & crew
More about Little Kalle's Dream of His Snowman
Emil Åberg directed this drawn short for the Stockholm branch of Pathé. Siegmund Popert produced it. It opened on February 28, 1916, at the Sibyllan cinema in Stockholm. The Swedish Film Database gives 6 minutes, 121 metres, one reel, silent, black and white, projected at 18 frames a second. The censor card is number 14911, February 1916, passed for children. It was the first of three animated films Åberg finished.
Themes
Making
Åberg drew the film at Pathé's Swedish branch. The Sibyllan opening was the first public show.
Preservation
Held in the Sveriges Television archive. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Swedish title is Lilla Kalles dröm om sin snögubbe.
- Åberg was working at Pathé's Stockholm office while Victor Bergdahl was making the Grogg films for Svenska Bio.
- The snowman melts at the stove and then gets back into the bed.
- Svensk Filmdatabas says a print is in the Sveriges Television archive.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Scenes
- The finished mouth blows smoke at a cat.
- The snowman melts by the stove and climbs into Kalle's bed.