The Cricket and the spider

Duration: 6

Year Published: 1978

Creator: Phoenix Film Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Produced in Czechoslovakia, this animated modern fable tells of the cricket; caught in the spider web, he provokes the murderous spider with his violin-playing, and works a justifiable revenge., In this animated film, a cricket passing by with his fiddle is captured by an evil spider. The cricket escapes but breaks his fiddle. Repairing it with a peg from a butcher's knife, he finds that the knife responds to music. It frees the spider's victims and chases the arachnid away. Genre/FormFilms for preschoolers, Fiction. Films without narration.

Complete Record: Produced in Czechoslovakia, this animated modern fable tells of the cricket; caught in the spider web, he provokes the murderous spider with his violin-playing, and works a justifiable revenge., In this animated film, a cricket passing by with his fiddle is captured by an evil spider. The cricket escapes but breaks his fiddle. Repairing it with a peg from a butcher's knife, he finds that the knife responds to music. It frees the spider's victims and chases the arachnid away. Genre/FormFilms for preschoolers, Fiction. Films without narration. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.