- Title: VM-1382B
- Summary: FOUR FROM A COURTYARD: RUSSIAN ANIMATED KIDDIE CARTOON ABOUT A KITTEN, PUPPY DOG, FAWN (DEER) AND A BABY CHICK IN A COMMON BARNYARD OR COURTYARD WHO BLAME EACH OTHER FOR THE SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF THEIR FOOD. (KITTENS MILK, PUPPIES BONE, FAWNS CARROT AND BABY CHICK'S SNAIL. ALL BLAME EACH OTHER AT FIRST, BUT THROUGH INVESTIGATION AND NATURAL INSTINCTS, FIND AND CAPTURE THE REAL CULPRIT, A LARGE RAT. ALL. ALL ANIMALS SPEAK WITH RUSSIAN CHILDREN VOICES..
- Description:00:24:19 - ABOVE VIEW KITTEN, PUPPY AND FAWN EACH HAVING THEIR DINNER IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF COURTYARD. MS KITTEN LAPPING UP HER MILK FROM BOWL IS SUDDENLY DISTRACTED BY COLORFUL BUTTERFLY. KITTY LEAVES HER BOWL OF MILK TO PLAY WITH BUTTERFLY. 00:24:29 - VARIOUS SHOTS KITTY CHASING BUTTERFLY. 00:24:47 - A SINISTER SHADOW OF UNKNOWN ANIMAL APPEARS OVER CATS FOOD DISK. WHEN KITTY FINISHES WITH BUTTERFLY, SHE RETURNS TO HER BOWL, FINDS IT EMPTY. 00:25:24 - KITTY ASSUMING THE PUPPY DOG ATE HER FOOD, TROTS OVER TO WHERE DOGGIE ID AT HIS DISH WITH HIS BONE. KITTY TAKES THE BONE RUNS AWAY WITH IT, PUPPY CHASING AFTER. DOGGIE RECOVERS BONE PLACES IT BACK IN DISH, CONTINUES AFTER THE CAT. 00:25:49 - A SINISTER SHADOW RISES BEFORE THE BOWL WITH BONE ON IT. DOG RETURNS, FINDS HIS BONE MISSING. DOGGIE CHASES KITTY INTO CHICKEN PEN, SHERE HEN JUST HATCHES AN EGG. CHICK POPS OUT, PLAYS WITH KITTY. MEANWHILE PUPPY HEADS BACK TO HIS BONE, FINDS BOWL EMPTY. DIGS UP GROUND LOOKING FOR IT. GLANCES OVER AT FAWN, FIGURES FAWN GOT HIS BONE. 00:26:59 - FAWN EATING HIS VEGETABLES FROM BOWL IS INTERRUPTED BY DOGGIE WHO SEARCHES IN BOWL FOR HIS BONE, TO NO AVAIL. MEANWHILE CHICK EXITS HEN HOUSE WITH KITTY, BOTH WALK TO FAWN WHO IS EATING CARROT FROM PLATE. FAWN TURNS HIS BACK ON THER PLATE TO SPEAK TO THE TWO. AS HE DOES, THE SHADOWY FIGURE LOOMS OVER THE CARROT. FAWN RETURNS TO PLATE, GETS VERY EXITED WHEN HE SEES THE CARROT GONE. 00:30:27 - SEPARATED FROM ITS THREE FRIENDS BABY CHICK STARTS TO PLAY WITH BEATTLE WHO FLIES DOWN FROM TREE, SUDDENLY THER SHADOWY MONSTER LOOMS OVER THEM. AS THE THREE OTHERS ARE CHATTING THEY ARE DISTURBED BY SCREAMS FROM BABY CHICK. THEY RUN OVER AND THE EXCITED CHICK TELLS THEM OF THE MONSTER RAT WHO TOOK THE BEETLE AND A FLOWER THEY WERE NEAR. USING HIS PROWESS AS A HOUND DOG, DOGGIE STARTS TO SNIFF AROUND COURTYARD, FOLLOWED BY THE OTHERS. HE FINDS RAT, GIVES CAT THE JOB OF PULLING IT OUT OF ITS RAT HOLE. THEY CHASE RAT IN A CONTINUES CIRCLE AROUND THE COURTYARD. DOGGIE SETS UP CAGE TRAP IN PATH OF PURSUIT, RAT RUNS INTO THE TRAP AND ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. 00:33:53 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-1382B