Spring Melodies
About Spring Melodies
Winter is slow to give spring its place. The forest wakes anyway. Birds, animals, and insects come out into the sun and dance to music by Tchaikovsky.
Cast & crew
More about Spring Melodies
Dmitry Babichenko wrote and directed the drawn short Vesenniye melodii at Soyuzmultfilm in 1946. Konstantin Zotov was production designer. Mikhail Druyan was cameraman. The animators include Lamis Bredis, Boris Dyozhkin, Grigory Kozlov, Nikolai Fyodorov, and Gennady Filippov. Backgrounds are credited to Vera Valerianova, Konstantin Malyshev, and Galina Nevzorova.
Themes
Look
Mikhail Druyan photographed the cel animation. Konstantin Zotov designed the picture.
Music
The film is set to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The spoken language is Russian.
Notes
- The Russian title is Весенние мелодии.
- A Russian Wikipedia timing of the short is 9 minutes 5 seconds. The embedded player runs 9 minutes 7 seconds.
- Wikimultia describes the Tchaikovsky pieces as separate concert numbers inside the film.
Scenes
- Winter holds on, and then the forest animals come out into the sun.
- Birds, beasts, and insects dance to Tchaikovsky.
Influenced by
- Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1946. Весенние мелодии.webm)
