Adventures of Juku the Dog (1931)

Original title

Kutsu-Juku seiklusi

Directed by

Voldemar Päts

Genre

silent film

Country

Estonia

Runtime

6 min

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent animated short from 1931 about a dog named Juku. It was the first Estonian animated film and was made with thousands of hand-drawn pictures. Only about four minutes of the original six minutes survive today.

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What happens

The Adventures of Juku The Dog (Estonian: Kutsu-Juku seiklusi) is a 1931 Estonian experimental animated short film. is the first Estonian animated short film, written and directed by Voldemar Päts, produced by Aleksander Teppor, and with animation by the cartoonist Elmar Jaanimägi. For the film, about 5000 drawings were made. Out of the total of 180 meters (6 minutes) of shot film stock about 100m (4 minutes) have survived. The soundtrack for the silent film was provided by Records of the Tormolen Co. Parlophon. Two films in the series were attempted. The second one, called The Adventures of Juku on Land and Water (Estonian: Juku seiklused maal ja veel), was not completed and has not survived. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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