The Meteorological House

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1944

Production year

1944

Runtime

9 min

Category

film

Genre

slapstick

Typology

animatedtheatrical distributionshort

Original title

Povětrnostní domeček

Czech title

Povětrnostní domeček

English title

The Meteorological House

Protectorate parallel title

Das Wetterhäuschen

Summary

A cartoon comedy about the characters of a boy puppet and a girl puppet who forecast the weather.

Synopsis

A rain boy and a sun girl live together in a little house and forecast the weather. The boy with a hat and a little brolly forecasts foul weather while the girl forecasts sunshine. Their lives and coexistence in the house utterly depend on the changes of weather. One day, the boy gets soaked in the rain and cannot take his wet shirt off, another day a windstorm blows his clothes away. Sometimes he almost disappears under heavy snow. To get warm, he tap-dances inside the house so vehemently that the house shakes even with the girl who is just forecasting sunny weather outside. In the end, there is both sunshine and rain at the same time. The boy and the girl can finally meet for a while and they jointly forecast that the weather would be changeable.

Note

After the war, the film was distributed in Czechoslovakia with Czech opening titles. The copy with German opening titles is considered missing. Filming the cartoon employed the colour negative Agfacolor.

Crew and creators

Screenplay

Horst von Möllendorff, kolektiv Oddělení pro výrobu kresleného filmu Prag-Filmu

Director of Photography

Vladimír Novotný

Art Director

Horst von Möllendorff, kolektiv Oddělení pro výrobu kresleného filmu Prag-Filmu

Artistic Management

Horst von Möllendorff

Animation

kolektiv Oddělení pro výrobu kresleného filmu Prag-Filmu

Production Manager

Zdeněk Reimann

Music

Music Composed by

Julius Kalaš

Music Performed by

Orchestr Pragfilmu

Production info

Original Title

Povětrnostní domeček

Czech Title

Povětrnostní domeček

English Title

The Meteorological House

Protectorate Parallel Title

Das Wetterhäuschen

Category

film

Typology

animatedtheatrical distribution

Genre

slapstick

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1944

Production Year

1944

Production specifications

date of censorship 07/1947
withdrawal from distribution 15 December 1950

Premiere

premiere 07/1947 /suitable for youths/

Production

Prag-Film

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Laboratories

Prag-Film

Technical info

Duration typology

short film

Duration in minutes

9 min

Original length in metres

245 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Animation technique

cartoon

Aspect ratio

1:1,37

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Sound system/format

Tobis – Klang

Versions

Czech, German

Dialogue languages

without dialogue

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Opening/End credits languages

Czech, German