The Orange Neck

1954 Animation Directed by Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya

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About The Orange Neck

Two partridge pairs, the Brovkins and the Podkovkins, hatch twelve chicks. A falcon kills the Brovkin parents. Orange Neck, the Podkovkin wife, takes the orphaned chicks. In the autumn she brings twenty-four young birds to a partridge gathering and is chosen as the lead hen.

Cast & crew

More about The Orange Neck

Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya and Vladimir Polkovnikov directed. Nikolai Erdman wrote it. Wikidata lists the source as Orange neck. The Russian title is Оранжевое горлышко.

Themes

  • two broods
  • a falcon
  • an adopted clutch of twenty-four
  • Orange Neck
  • partridges
  • falcon
  • Brovkins
  • Podkovkins

Look

Mikhail Druyan photographed the animation.

Music

Yury Nikolsky wrote the music.

Preservation

A Commons transfer of the 1954 cartoon is online.

Notes

  • Mariya Babanova, Georgiy Vitsin, Irina Gosheva, Yuri Medvedev, and Valentina Telegina are catalog voices.

Scenes

  • The falcon kills the Brovkin pair.
  • Orange Neck arrives at the gathering with twenty-four chicks.

Influenced by

  • Orange neck