New Year's Eve
About New Year's Eve
A few days before New Year, Father Frost goes into the forest for a tree and meets the Wood Goblin. They argue over a flying carpet and a real airplane. The goblin loses. He is the one who brings the children the finest tree, with golden cones. Olga Khodataeva and Pyotr Nosov directed. The Russian title is Novogodnyaya noch.
Cast & crew
More about New Year's Eve
Khodataeva and Nosov also wrote it. Mikhail Volpin wrote the verse. Nosov was the designer. Grigory Lobachev wrote the music. Mikhail Druyan photographed it. S. Rensky recorded the sound. Russian Wikipedia times it at 10 minutes 36 seconds and calls it the first Soviet New Year cartoon after the war. Father Frost’s look is taken from the prewar short Father Frost and the Grey Wolf. The goblin is the antagonist.
Themes
Making
Khodataeva and Nosov reused a prewar Father Frost and set him against a goblin who still trusts a carpet.
Look
Mikhail Druyan photographed the drawn forest and the tree.
Music
Grigory Lobachev wrote the music. Mikhail Volpin wrote the verse.
Notes
- The argument is carpet against airplane, not two magic rugs.
- The tree with golden cones is the goblin’s delivery after he loses.
- No 31 December premiere date is on the Russian page. The year is 1948.
- A later note says the short shows Soviet viewers a machine from the future, the airplane.
Scenes
- Father Frost and the goblin argue over carpet and airplane.
- The goblin brings the tree with golden cones.
Influenced by
- The prewar cartoon Father Frost and the Grey Wolf, for Father Frost’s look
