A soviet
claymation animated short made in 1981 by
Aleksandr Tatarskiy. It's divided into three segments: "Picture", "Game" and "But maybe, but maybe".
The last and the most famous segment can be viewed online with subtitles on
Youtube
.
This short provides examples of:
- Audience Participation
- Brick Joke: The grandmother from one of the previous episodes breifly shows up to hit the pillow
- Cherubic Choir: children are there as an audience, so they laugh, interrupt the narrators and even make their own changes to the story.
- InteractiveNarrators: The narrators apologize for forgetting details of the original fable and argue among themselves and with the audience
- Lost Aesop or possibly a Spoof Aesop: original story is an actual Aesop's fable
. Of course, since narrators completely forgot what it was about, and are making the whole thing up as they go, the final aesop has absolutely nothing to do with original whatsoever. - Shout Out: The wise cat and the mermaid in the tree are characters from Pushkin's stories