Tom Thumb
About Tom Thumb
A woodcutter takes his wife and five sons into the forest. The parents and the older boys gather firewood. The two youngest go for mushrooms. The mushrooms run, and the chase leads the children to their leader, who tells them to pick nuts instead. A thunderstorm strands the boys. They find a house and ask to stay the night.
Cast & crew
More about Tom Thumb
Olga Khodataeva directed and wrote the short. Alexander Krein composed the score. Yuliya Yulskaya is the credited voice. Soyuzmultfilm released it in 1938. The Russian title is Malchik s palchik. It runs 11 minutes.
Themes
Making
Khodataeva draws the fairy-tale walk as a short: firewood, a mushroom chase, a storm, and a door.
Music
Alexander Krein composed the score.
Preservation
A print of the short survives.
Notes
- The mushroom leader redirects the children from mushrooms to nuts.
- Only the two youngest leave the woodcutting party.
- The night they ask for is in a stranger's house after the storm.
- Khodataeva both wrote and directed.
- Krein's music is the score credit.
Scenes
- The younger boys leave the wood pile to hunt mushrooms.
- The mushroom chief sends them after nuts.
- Lost in the storm, they knock at a strange house.
