War Chronicles
About War Chronicles
A drawn cartoon of pages from Red Army history. It shows the army's fights with the enemies of Soviet Russia, including episodes of the civil war against the White forces.
Cast & crew
More about War Chronicles
Dmitry Babichenko directed at Soyuzmultfilm in 1939. He and M. Kossovsky wrote the script. Grigory Kozlov and A. Bazhenov were the art directors, K. Krylova the camera operator, and S. Rensky the sound operator. A history of Soviet animation also names L. Amalrik and V. Polkovnikov with Babichenko on this cartoon.
Background
Released in 1939, in the last peacetime year before the German invasion, as a short political cartoon about the Red Army.
Making
Soyuzmultfilm issued it as a drawn film, not a children's fairy tale.
Look
K. Krylova is credited as the camera operator on the animation.
Music
Alexei Aksyonov wrote the music.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Russian title is Boyevye stranitsy.
- It was made as a political poster cartoon for adults, in the same year as Babichenko's Pobedny marshrut.
- Alexei Aksyonov wrote the music.
- A Wikimedia copy runs 8 minutes and 57 seconds. The filmography lists 9 minutes and 48 seconds.
Scenes
- Animated pages of fighting from the civil war.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1939. Боевые страницы.webm)
