Wash-’em-Clean
About Wash-’em-Clean
A boy will not wash. His clothes and toys run away from him to Moydodyr, a washstand that walks and talks. He has to go after them. The short follows Korney Chukovsky's poem of the same name. The Russian title is Moydodyr.
Cast & crew
More about Wash-’em-Clean
Ivan Ivanov-Vano directed and wrote the adaptation. Nikita Bogoslovsky wrote the music. Wikidata times it at 10 minutes. Voices in the catalog include Leonid Pirogov, Osip Abdulov, and Yuliya Yulskaya.
Themes
Making
Soyuzmultfilm made this the same year as Limpopo, another Chukovsky cartoon, with Bogoslovsky writing the songs and the chase.
Music
Nikita Bogoslovsky composed the music.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Moydodyr is the washstand, not a person the boy already knows.
- The poem's point is that the dirty boy gets his things back only after he washes.
- Ivanov-Vano both directed and took the writing credit on Wikidata.
- A Commons file uses the Russian title and the year 1939.
Scenes
- The clothes and toys leave the unwashed boy.
- He has to follow them to Moydodyr.
Influenced by
- Korney Chukovsky's poem Moydodyr
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1939. Мойдодыр.webm)
