The Postman's Tale
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1945Production year
1941—1942Premiere
neproběhlaRuntime
12 minDirector
Stanislav ŠulcCategory
filmGenre
fairytaleTypology
animatedtheatrical distributionshortFilm state
partially realised project, lost filmOriginal title
Pošťácká pohádkaCzech title
Pošťácká pohádkaEnglish title
The Postman's TaleEnglish parallel title
The Mailman's TaleWorking title
Pošťák KolbabaSummary
Unfinished film.
A cartoon film about a postman named Kolbaba, post office gnomes and a letter without no address based on Karel Čapek's fairy-tale of the same title.
Synopsis
A postman delivers the mail around the town, putting letters into the mailboxes. The last letter does not have an address written on it. The sad postman goes back to the post office and wants to get rid of the letter and throw it into the fireplace, but he is stopped by a paragraph. At midnight starts the spree of post-office elves and the postman gives them also the letter without address. The elves shine a light through the letter and read it. Then they put stamps with hearts on it and write an address “Ms Mařenka in Lhota”. The postman must go a long way, in summer and winter, until he delivers this romantic letter to Mařenka in Lhota, who was feather-plucking at the time and waiting for a message from her beloved František.
Note
The film was never finished. The work on this film was interrupted in 1942 when the studio fell under the German company Deutsche Schmalfilmgesellschaft (Descheg), but Czech employees secretly continued with work on it. After the end of the war was the exposed material sent to the Brenten´s cartoon studio in Brno, but Brenten´s new version of The Postman's Tale was never finished too. The film materials are believed lost.
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Crew and creators
Director
Based on
Karel Čapek (Pošťácká pohádka – pohádka ze sbírky Devatero pohádek a ještě jedna od Josefa Čapka jako přívažek)
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Art Director
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Production Manager
Music
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Production info
Original Title
Pošťácká pohádka
Czech Title
Pošťácká pohádka
English Title
The Postman's Tale
English Parallel Title
The Mailman's Tale
Working Title
Pošťák Kolbaba
Category
film
Typology
animatedtheatrical distribution
Film state
partially realised project, lost film
Genre
fairytale
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1945
Production Year
1941—1942
Production specifications
date of censorship nepředloženo cenzuře
Premiere
premiere neproběhla
Distribution slogan
no caption
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Laboratories
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
12 min
Original length in metres
335 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Animation technique
cartoon
Aspect ratio
1:1,37
Colour
black & white
Sound
sound
Sound system/format
Tobis – Klang
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
without dialogue
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
