Mum's Trip to Heaven

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1935

Production year

1935

Runtime

5 min

Category

film

Genre

promotional

Typology

animatedtheatrical distributionshort

Original title

Maminčin výlet do nebe

Czech title

Maminčin výlet do nebe

English title

Mum's Trip to Heaven

Parallel title

Mütterchen als Gast im Himmel

Summary

An animation advertisement for domestic electrical appliances from the firm Elektro-Praga ČKD.

Synopsis

An exhausted mum rushes around the kitchen, cooking, washing, ironing. As she finally goes to bed and falls asleep, she has a dream in which she flies into heaven. Here, she can see spry little angels attending to the bath, shower, water heater, electric cooker, vacuum cleaner, mangle, refrigerator, electric fire, meat mincing machine, and dough robot. The mum, astonished, returns home with a leaflet entitled "Heaven on Earth" – a catalogue of home electric appliances from the assortment of the ČKD Elektro-Praga company.

Crew and creators

Artistic Collaboration

Jiří Weiss

Music

Music Composed by

Bedřich Kerten

Production info

Original Title

Maminčin výlet do nebe

Czech Title

Maminčin výlet do nebe

English Title

Mum's Trip to Heaven

Parallel Title

Mütterchen als Gast im Himmel

Category

film

Typology

animatedtheatrical distribution

Genre

promotional

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1935

Production Year

1935

Production specifications

date of censorship 15 July 1935

Premiere

premiere 07/1935 /suitable for youths/

Production

IRE-Film

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

IRE-Film

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

5 min

Original length in metres

140 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Animation technique

cartoon

Aspect ratio

1:1,19

Colour

tinting, black & white

Sound

sound

Versions

Czech, German

Dialogue languages

Czech, German

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech, German