The Meteorological House
Category
filmGenre
slapstickTypology
animatedtheatrical distributionshortOriginal title
Povětrnostní domečekCzech title
Povětrnostní domečekEnglish title
The Meteorological HouseProtectorate parallel title
Das WetterhäuschenSummary
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.
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Crew and creators
Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Horst von Möllendorff, kolektiv Oddělení pro výrobu kresleného filmu Prag-Filmu
Director of Photography
Art Director
Horst von Möllendorff, kolektiv Oddělení pro výrobu kresleného filmu Prag-Filmu
Artistic Management
Animation
kolektiv Oddělení pro výrobu kresleného filmu Prag-Filmu
Production Manager
Cooperation
kolektiv Oddělení pro výrobu kresleného filmu Prag-Filmu, Jaroslav Balvín, Čeněk Duba, Václav Bedřich, Jiří Brdečka, Jaroslav Kándl, Stanislav Látal, Eduard Hofman, Miloslav Říha, Jaroslav Jílovec, František Paták
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
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
Copyright Holders
Laboratories
Distribution
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
