New Year Tree
About New Year Tree
Hares, foxes, bears, and squirrels cut firs in the woods and dress them for New Year. Ded Moroz is on his way with toys. Wolves block the path and try to steal the presents. The animals hear of it, band together, and drive the wolves off. Ded Moroz hangs the toys on the largest tree in the forest, and the new year starts.
Cast & crew
More about New Year Tree
Mikhail Tsekhanovsky and Pyotr Nosov directed the drawn short. Nosov is credited with the script. Nikita Bogoslovsky wrote the music. Soyuzmultfilm released it in 1942. The Russian running time is 8 minutes 40 seconds.
Themes
Background
New Year, with Ded Moroz and a fir tree, was the winter holiday Soviet cartoons could show in 1942. The film does not mention Christmas.
Making
Tsekhanovsky and Nosov made it at Soyuzmultfilm during the war, a short holiday cartoon rather than a wartime subject.
Music
Nikita Bogoslovsky composed the score.
Preservation
A complete print of about eight and a half minutes survives.
Notes
- The Russian title is Yolka.
- Sound was recorded by S. Rensky.
- The animals, not Ded Moroz alone, chase the wolves.
- A surviving copy runs 8 minutes 41 seconds.
- Animator.ru lists it as film 2940.
Scenes
- The animals drag firs through the snow and decorate them.
- Wolves stop Ded Moroz and go for the sack of toys.
- He trims the biggest tree once the wolves are gone.
