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Last Year's Snow Was Falling is a Soviet clay-animated film (with a few cel-animated parts) made in 1983 by Aleksandr Tatarskiy.It tells a story of a dude whose stern wife sends him to the forest to get a New Year tree. The guy is lazy, extremely greedy, even more air-headed and "can't spell some letters and digits right". |
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Dropped link to BabaYaga: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Dropped link to DerangedAnimation: Not a Feature - ITEM |
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Magic Wand |
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Magic Wand: that was there in chicken-legged house. |
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Anachronism Stew |
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Anachronism Stew: Most clothes and household objects date back to the 19th century with occasional dip to the 17th or earlier, plus metric system, phones, fire extinguisher, 1970s CRT TV, sneakers. |
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Funny Background Event |
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Funny Background Event: Too many to list. Even some of the dude's actions qualify, when he and narrator discuss something else. |
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Not Quite Back to Normal |
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Not Quite Back to Normal: Tiger tail |
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome |
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome / Fang Thpeak: The dude. Oh yes. (Which one, depends on translation.) |
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HammerSpace |
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Hammerspace: The dude keeps any number of items inside his hat and coat. |
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle! |
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle! |
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Too Important to Walk |
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Too Important to Walk: Parodied. The dude requests a palanquin, carried by the hare and the gypsy crow, gets into it, and his legs pop out the bottom, at which point all three walk off. |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Oh. All the damn time. |
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World of Chaos |
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World of Chaos |
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If I Were a Rich Man |
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If I Were a Rich Man: The daydreaming sequence mentioned below. |
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National Stereotypes |
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National Stereotypes: The crow with huge golden earrings on the marketplace is a caricature on a Gypsy merchant. Not remotely as smart, though. |
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InvoluntaryShapeshifter |
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Involuntary Shapeshifter: Hero suffered through this because he messed with |
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Mood Whiplash |
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Mood Whiplash: This extremely wacky and funny cartoon ends with a very sad and moving title score. Tatarskiy told the composer to write "music for our funeral".note It was played on Tatarskiy's funeral, and that's saying something. |
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Catchphrase |
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Catchphrase: "Aint big enuph!" |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: Baba Yaga: She doesn't appear in person, but Dude spends second half of the short going through her chicken-legged house. |
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No Name Given |
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No Name Given: The hero of the short, who is simply identified as "Dude" (Мужик, lit. "man" or "fellow"). |
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Decoy Protagonist |
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Decoy Protagonists: The narrator first starts to tell the story about a magical pike, then two arguing women, then a miller, then a guy who really likes watermelons, then about a metal cup chained to a can (!), and only then he finds the hero. |
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Mr. Imagination |
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Mr. Imagination: Our hero spends most of the first segment daydreaming about what life he is gonna have after he catches the hare. All the while, the hare is just standing there, yet to be captured. |
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All Animals Are Dogs |
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All Animals Are Dogs: All Animals Are Cats: The crow can take catnaps anywhere, including a moving windmill wing and a rheumatic's back. It keeps pestering the protagonist. And then it sleeps on protagonist's lap. |
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Interactive Narrator |
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Interactive Narrator: The woodcutter argues with the narrator and makes demands that the story turn for the better for him. |
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Brick Joke |
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Brick Joke: "Where did the cup go?" The pike and those arguing women show up a lot. The man who ate watermelons and spat chicken bones in the beginning. In the second half a pack of enthusiastic dogs are waiting for more under his window. A cockerel can be seen pursuing a hen in the background for the most of the cartoon... only for the last part it's the hen who's doing the pursuing, with a few chicks in tow. |
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Bigger on the Inside |
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Bigger on the Inside: The house on chicken legs, very much so. |
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FlyingCarpet |
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Flying Carpet: One of the magical items in the chicken-legged house. |
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