Plasticine Crow and more – Soviet Animation, 1981

As children, we all played with plasticine, creating figures or pictures, or just having fun. But what would happen if grown-ups stated playing with plasticine, like children?

On the New Year Eve of 2024, we presented a translation of "Last Year's Snow Was Falling" (https://rumble.com/v6kq8qa-last-years-snow-was-falling-soviet-new-year-animation-1983.html), a plasticine animated film from 1983, directed by Alexander Tatarsky. That was, however not the first of his films using such animation technique.

In 1981, a series of three short animation films under the common title "Plasticine Crow", came out to the delight of kids — both small and big.

🖼 Trivia!

👉 "Or maybe... or maybe..." is very (and we mean, very) loosely based on Ivan Krylov's fable "The Crow and the Fox".
👉 At 4:10, right at the start of "Or maybe... or maybe...", a box of plasticine sold in the USSR can be seen in all its glory. Similar "stock" plasticine was used in the production of the animated film, though the creators had to mix in colour pigments to make the material more vibrant.
👉 The short film "About Paintings" uses drawings by children from the animation studio of the Central Republican Pioneers' Palace of Kiev.

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