Travel to the Land of the Giants
About Travel to the Land of the Giants
At midnight the toy drummers on a clock, brother Tak and sister Tik, come alive. They go into a book titled Travel to the Land of the Giants, 1946–1950, about the Soviet Union as a country of giants. A driver takes them through the pages on an electric locomotive drawn from the cover. They pass coal mines and steel plants.
Cast & crew
More about Travel to the Land of the Giants
Dmitry Babichenko directed Puteshestvie v stranu velikanov at Soyuzmultfilm in 1947. Wikimultia also credits the script to Babichenko, V. Dlugach, and S. Romanov. Nikolay Voinov was cameraman. S. Rensky was sound man. Russian Wikipedia calls it one of Babichenko's political animated posters. The infobox length is 16 minutes 6 seconds.
Themes
Look
Nikolay Voinov photographed the drawn tour of mines and steel plants.
Music
Grigory Gamburg is credited with the music on Wikidata. Wikimultia lists the composer as German Gamburg.
Notes
- The Russian title is Путешествие в страну великанов.
- The English catalog calls the clock children Tock and Tick. The Russian names are Так and Тик, brother and sister.
- A player on the Russian Wikipedia page runs 15 minutes 17 seconds.
- Wikimultia notes a stretch of total animation, with a road of repeated trees and a parallax effect drawn on one layer, around the 14-minute mark.
Scenes
- The clock strikes midnight and Tak and Tik climb into the book.
- They ride a drawn electric locomotive past mines and steelworks.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1947. Путешествие в страну великанов.webm)
