Telephone
About Telephone
Korney Chukovsky sits at his new telephone and reads his own verse tale. Drawn animals call him, among them an elephant, a crocodile, a walrus, and a rhinoceros.
Cast & crew
More about Telephone
Mikhail Tsekhanovsky directed the mix of live action and drawings at Soyuzmultfilm in 1944, during the wartime shortage of stock and staff. Georgy Reysgof was the cameraman and Lev Shvarts the composer. Chukovsky plays himself.
Themes
Look
Georgy Reysgof photographed Chukovsky on camera and the drawn animals that interrupt him.
Music
Lev Shvarts wrote the score. Chukovsky reads his poem.
Notes
- Leonid Pirogov voices the elephant, Georgy Vitsin the crocodile, Yuri Khrzhanovsky the walrus, and Vladimir Volodin the rhinoceros.
- The film is based on Chukovsky's poem Telephone.
- Russian accounts of wartime cartoons list it with The New Year Tree, The Stolen Sun, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, and Sinbad the Sailor.
Scenes
- Chukovsky answers the telephone and an elephant is on the line.
- A crocodile, a walrus, and a rhinoceros call in turn.
Influenced by
- Korney Chukovsky's poem Telephone
