The Cricket and the spider

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.

Credits

Directed by
Zdeněk Miler
Written by
Zdeněk Miler, Jiří Stránský
Cinematography
Emil Strakoň
Music
Vadim Petrov
Edited by
Gaia Vitkova
Complete catalog 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.
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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, description, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q57268265 ↗ — country, genre, credits