The Grandpa and His Little Grandson
About The Grandpa and His Little Grandson
A rabbit, a fox cub, and a squirrel wake their friend Mishka the bear cub out of winter sleep and drag him to the rink. They teach him to skate. His grandfather hauls him home, saying skating is not a bear's business and will only give him a cold. Mishka talks the old bear into letting him go back. On the day of the young skaters' exhibition the grandfather wakes, and he and the yard dog watch Mishka perform.
Cast & crew
More about The Grandpa and His Little Grandson
Aleksandr Ivanov directed the drawn short at Soyuzmultfilm. Boris Laskin wrote it. Yevgeny Migunov was art director. Mieczysław Weinberg wrote the score. Mikhail Druyan and Ekaterina Rizo photographed. Boris Dyozhkin, Lidiya Reztsova, Faina Yepifanova, and others animated. The uncredited original voices are Yuri Khrzhanovsky as the cub, Georgy Millyar as the dog, Sergei Troitsky as the fox cub, and Konstantin Sorokin as the grandfather.
Themes
Making
Migunov's forest rink is the whole set. The grandfather's line, that skating is mischief and a cold, is the obstacle, and the exhibition is the answer.
Look
Mikhail Druyan and Ekaterina Rizo shot the animation under Yevgeny Migunov's designs.
Music
Mieczysław Weinberg wrote the music. The 1950 voices were not listed on the titles.
Preservation
A digital copy is on Wikimedia Commons. A 2001 restoration replaced the original soundtrack.
Notes
- The Russian title is Dedushka i vnuchek.
- In 2001 Studio AS and Detsky Seans 1 replaced the entire soundtrack. Irina Malikova, Vladimir Konkin, Boris Tokarev, and Yulyen Balmusov spoke the new roles. Viewers and other animation workers objected to the redub.
- Vyacheslav Kotenochkin, later the director of Nu, pogodi!, is among the animators.
- A digital copy of the film runs about 17 minutes 46 seconds. Published timings say 19 minutes.
Scenes
- The rabbit, fox, and squirrel pull Mishka out of hibernation and onto the ice.
- The grandfather drags him home, then later stands with the yard dog to watch the exhibition.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1950. Дедушка и внучек.webm)
