Sinbad the Sailor
About Sinbad the Sailor
Sinbad is singing in a small boat when a wave smashes it on a beach. The next wave brings a chest. Inside is a map to the island of Serendib and the secret of an old stone, a golden jug that grants wishes. A captain will not take him, so he stows away. Pirates take the ship, find the map, and lock him up. He slips the map back while they sleep, but a magnetic rock pulls the nails out of the ship and it sinks. He reaches Serendib on a piece of mast, opens a cave by copying three frogs, three storks, a fish, and four crabs, and lifts the jug. A shape-changing monster chases him. He breaks it with the jug, then traps the genie that comes out and lets it go only for a new ship. He sails off singing.
Cast & crew
More about Sinbad the Sailor
Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg directed and wrote the drawn film, with Oleg Erberg and N. Peresvetov also on the script. Soyuzmultfilm released it in 1944. It runs 21 minutes. Nikita Bogoslovsky and Yuri Nikolsky wrote the music. N. Sokolova photographed it. Lev Sverdlin and Boris Livanov are billed.
Themes
Making
The Brumberg sisters drew one voyage: a wreck, a chest, a pirate ship, a magnetic rock, and a jug with a genie in it. Sverdlin and Livanov are the voices on the billing.
Look
N. Sokolova photographed the drawn voyage.
Music
Nikita Bogoslovsky and Yuri Nikolsky wrote the music. Sinbad sings in the boat at the start and again when the new ship sails.
Preservation
A 21-minute print survives.
Notes
- The map's instruction is to sail to Serendib and open the secret of the ancient stone. The prize named on it is a golden jug that grants wishes.
- The cave opens when Sinbad imitates three frogs, three storks, one fish, and four crabs.
- The monster that guards the jug turns into a dragon, water, a leopard, and a snake.
- The Russian title is Синдбад-мореход.
Scenes
- A wave leaves a chest at Sinbad's feet after his boat is smashed.
- The magnetic rock pulls the nails out of the pirate ship.
- He copies the animals, the stone opens, and he takes the jug.
- He tricks the genie back into the jug, then trades the freedom for a ship.
Influenced by
- Arabian Nights tales of Sinbad
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1944. Синдбад мореход.webm)
