Part of the Bank of Russia's long-running commemorative series honoring Soviet animation, this piece marks the 50th anniversary of Yuriy Norshteyn and Francheska Yarbusova's 1975 film — a short that topped a 1984 poll of international animators as the greatest animated film ever made. The film's production at Soyuzmultfilm studio involved a then-experimental technique of layered glass planes to create depth, a method Norshteyn developed with cinematographer Alexander Zhukovsky that gave the fog sequences their distinctive quality.
Part of the Bank of Russia's long-running commemorative series honoring Soviet animation, this piece marks the 50th anniversary of Yuriy Norshteyn and Francheska Yarbusova's 1975 film — a short that topped a 1984 poll of international animators as the greatest animated film ever made. The film's production at Soyuzmultfilm studio involved a then-experimental technique of layered glass planes to create depth, a method Norshteyn developed with cinematographer Alexander Zhukovsky that gave the fog sequences their distinctive quality.