Little Mook
About Little Mook
A stepmother throws the orphan called Little Mook out of the house. He goes to work for an old woman, looking after her cats, and she throws him out too. He takes her slippers as his wages. The slippers are magic. A jealous king then wants what Mook has.
Cast & crew
More about Little Mook
Olga Khodataeva directed the drawn film at Soyuzmultfilm, from Wilhelm Hauff's tale. Varvara Butyagina wrote the script, submitted to the state cinema office in 1937. Pyotr Nosov was the designer. G. Lobachev wrote the music. P. Lebedeva photographed it. S. Rensky recorded the sound. It opened on 7 November 1938 and runs 12 minutes 48 seconds.
Themes
Making
Khodataeva and Nosov drew Hauff's story at Soyuzmultfilm. The wages Mook takes, because he is not paid, are the slippers.
Look
P. Lebedeva photographed the drawn film.
Music
G. Lobachev wrote the music. S. Rensky recorded the sound.
Preservation
A print survives. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Russian title is Маленький Мук.
- Hauff's tale is Little Muck. The film's boy is thrown out twice, first by the stepmother and then by the woman with the cats, before the slippers work.
- Animators on the film include B. Petin, A. Shchekalina, V. Makeyev, G. Frolova, Vlad Bochkarev, and T. Puzyreva.
- The script was filed in 1937, a year before the November 1938 release.
Scenes
- The stepmother puts Little Mook out.
- He takes the old woman's slippers instead of pay, and they are magic.
- The king wants what the slippers have brought him.
Influenced by
- Wilhelm Hauff's Little Muck
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1938. Маленький Мук.webm)
