Someone Else's Voice
About Someone Else's Voice
The forest is listening to the nightingale when a magpie, just back from abroad, stops the concert. She says his singing is out of date and sings jazz instead. The animals will not have it and drive her off. The nightingale is left as the singer. Ivan Ivanov-Vano directed. The Russian title is Chuzhoy golos.
Cast & crew
More about Someone Else's Voice
Dmitry Tarasov and Mikhail Kalinin wrote it. Yuri Nikolsky wrote the music. Nikolai Voinov photographed it. Nikolai Prilutsky recorded the sound. Russian Wikipedia dates the release October 1949 and times it at 9 minutes 54 seconds. The 21-minute figure does not match that length.
Themes
Background
The 1949 cartoon has the forest reject a jazz number brought in from abroad.
Making
Ivanov-Vano stages the argument as two concerts: the nightingale’s, then the magpie’s jazz, then the expulsion.
Look
Nikolai Voinov photographed the drawn concert.
Music
Yuri Nikolsky wrote the score, including the magpie’s jazz number.
Notes
- The jazz is the magpie’s number, not a band the forest asked for.
- She has just come from abroad. That is the reason she gives for knowing better.
- Animator.ru lists the film as number 2992.
- The genre line on the Russian page is a satirical fairy tale.
Scenes
- The magpie interrupts the nightingale and calls his art old.
- She sings jazz, and the animals chase her out.
