About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 33. Chapters: The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda, The Snow Queen, Nu, pogodi!, The Overcoat, Laughter and Grief by the White Sea, Adventures of Mowgli, The Humpbacked Horse, Tale of Tales, The Mystery of the Third Planet, The Key, Adventures of Captain Vrungel, Hedgehog in the Fog, The Scarlet Flower, The Cat Who Walked by Herself, The Adventures of Buratino, The Snow Maiden, The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin, There Lived Kozyavin, It Was I Who Drew the Little Man, The Nutcracker, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Night Before Christmas, The Enchanted Boy, The Twelve Months, The Lost Letter, Very Blue Beard, The New Gulliver, The Little Mermaid, Last Year's Snow Was Falling, Polygon, Plasticine Crow, Beloved Beauty, Go There, Don't Know Where, The Blue Bird, The Battle of Kerzhenets, Lefty, 38 Parrots, Why the Swallow Has the Tail with Little Horns, Contact, Leopold the Cat, Investigation held by Kolobki, Once Upon a Dog, The Wild Swans, Three from Buttermilk Village, Gena the Crocodile, Cheburashka, The Kitten from the Lizyukov street, Cinderella, Contract, Two Tickets to India, Film, Film, Film, The Story of a Crime, Town Musicians of Bremen, Shooting Range, Winnie-the-Pooh, Wings, legs and tails, Maria, Mirabela, Button, Welcome, On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians. Excerpt: The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda is an extant Soviet animation feature film by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky based on the eponymous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. The only surviving episode (4 mins) is called Bazar (Marketplace) (). A screenplay for the film was written in the 1930s by the director Mikhail Tsekhanovskiy. Work began in 1933. In the same year, the director contacted the young composer Dimitri Shostakovich and asked him to write music to accompany the film. Shostakovich wrote...
