One from Many
About One from Many
Maryivanna leaves the lights on when she goes home from work. At the apartment she plugs in several heavy appliances and goes past the power limit. A worker from a poster knocks and tells her to save electricity so there will be more shells. She ignores him. The appliances, drawn as people, cut the wires to the flat. The film says she is only one of many careless Muscovites.
Cast & crew
More about One from Many
Lamis Bredis directed the black-and-white drawn poster for Soyuzmultfilm in 1943, on order from the sales office of Mosenergo. The credit is in the titles. M. Ostrovsky wrote it. Osip Abdulov speaks the narration. V. Smirnov wrote the music. Nikolay Voinov photographed it. N. Bertrand recorded the sound. A listing times it at 8 minutes. The Russian title is Одна из многих.
Themes
Background
Soyuzmultfilm released it in 1943, while Moscow was under power limits and the studio was taking commissions from the city's electricity bureau.
Making
Mosenergo ordered the short during the war. Bredis made it as a satire: one tenant, too many plugs, and the current itself shutting the door.
Look
Nikolay Voinov photographed the black-and-white cartoon.
Music
V. Smirnov wrote the music. Osip Abdulov speaks the narration. N. Bertrand recorded the sound.
Preservation
An 8-minute print survives.
Notes
- The full title on the film is One of Many (Mosenergo).
- The poster Maryivanna walks past says, in Russian, that saving electricity everywhere multiplies the number of shells.
- Aleksandr Belyakov is the artist named on a Kinoglaz credit.
- Abdulov tells the story. Maryivanna does not get a change of heart. The appliances cut her off.
Scenes
- She leaves the office with the lamp still on.
- The poster worker knocks and she does not listen.
- The appliances cut the wires into the flat.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1943. Одна из многих.webm)
