"The Thief" (1934) With Subtitles - 1930's Electronic Music

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  • Опубліковано 27 січ 2018
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    An odd little propaganda film from Soviet Russia
    Created by Nikolai Voinov in 1934, using his "paper sound" technique
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variophone.
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  • @cyberyogicowindler2448
    @cyberyogicowindler2448 Рік тому +116

    They invented chip sound before soundchips. The audio waveforms were cut out of paper and photographed on film to be played through the optical sound sensor of the projector.

    • @MirlitronOne
      @MirlitronOne 11 місяців тому +8

      Basically what Daphne Oram "invented" 30 years later.

  • @adambeliever8058
    @adambeliever8058 3 роки тому +120

    In the earliest period of the Soviet animation era they used to copy Hollywood's techniques of the same period of time. However by the end of 1930s they had developed their own style.

    • @a__749
      @a__749 Рік тому +4

      did they copy electronic music from hollywood tho?

  • @firstpeter31822
    @firstpeter31822 2 роки тому +78

    It sounds more like a 1980s video game.

  • @pacifagrant8152
    @pacifagrant8152 2 роки тому +41

    And then the dog turned into a water melon, funniest thing I’ve ever seen.

  • @EduardoSalamanca1960
    @EduardoSalamanca1960 Рік тому +34

    This sounds like an arcade game from the 80s

  • @leogoulart7229
    @leogoulart7229 4 роки тому +74

    1930's Commodore 64 lol

  • @stanley_427
    @stanley_427 3 роки тому +100

    Holy hell, this is one of the most fascinating things ever.

  • @doomwinterxglitchgamer
    @doomwinterxglitchgamer 3 роки тому +47

    sounds like those nintendo games I've once played on gameboy

    • @gyrofrank
      @gyrofrank 2 роки тому +5

      Or Commodore 64... I'd be amazed if someone would make a game for Game Boy inspired by this cartoon. Graphics and music already there. Think about the rail scene, a good inspiring thing for a stage in the game!

    • @listerstormablecartoonandt1103
      @listerstormablecartoonandt1103 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@gyrofrankthe main character Remember Miki from miki's world by nokia

    • @gyrofrank
      @gyrofrank 7 місяців тому

      @@listerstormablecartoonandt1103 It does.

  • @jasons8479
    @jasons8479 9 місяців тому +14

    Interesting. I was not aware of this very early form of synthesized music, and I studied electronic music in college and independently.

    • @joezava8257
      @joezava8257 Місяць тому +1

      Surely they also told you that the Krautrock group (Kraftwerk) were the pioneers of electronic music and Giorgio Moroder's I Feel Love was Disco Music...🤦

  • @alienwatcher93
    @alienwatcher93 3 роки тому +38

    7:57
    Wild PIG
    appeared!
    Wild PIG uses WATERMELON THROW
    Enemy PIG's attack missed!

  • @GiantDoucheNG
    @GiantDoucheNG 6 років тому +53

    Man this is crazy

  • @droptherapy2085
    @droptherapy2085 3 роки тому +86

    The animation at 3:28 is not like anything I've seen from a cartoon this old.

  • @user-ff6pq1eg8x
    @user-ff6pq1eg8x 4 місяці тому +4

    Sounds like 8-bit game music that was some forty or fifty years later.

  • @20alphabet
    @20alphabet 6 років тому +50

    Sounds just like the background music from all those public school science films.

  • @sebmannix3374
    @sebmannix3374 Рік тому +15

    8:38 they dismembered him while he was awake just because he stole watermelons

    • @user-qi6pv9jh7o
      @user-qi6pv9jh7o 11 місяців тому +4

      And if to believe subs, wanted to kill a dog

    • @user-of7oc4wi1m
      @user-of7oc4wi1m 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@user-qi6pv9jh7oyou are right

  • @YCRProductions
    @YCRProductions 9 місяців тому +7

    This feels like a fever dream

  • @user-td4st5uu7x
    @user-td4st5uu7x 4 роки тому +37

    This animation is very much like the animation work of Max Fleischer studio!

    • @adambeliever8058
      @adambeliever8058 3 роки тому +9

      İn the earliest period of the Soviet animation they used to copy Hollywood's techniques of the same time.

  • @scaleonkhan183
    @scaleonkhan183 9 місяців тому +8

    0:41 sounds like a Pokemon intro theme!
    2:46 Pokemon route!
    3:28 WHAT THE FUCK
    THE PERSPECTIVE SHIFT WOW
    5:10 is great too, reminds me visually of Rhythm Heaven!
    5:26 LOL THE BARKING
    and 7:05
    7:34 Rhythm Heaven again!!
    7:58 вор! вор!!

    • @jrexx2841
      @jrexx2841 8 місяців тому +2

      You deserve 1k likes

    • @ssg-eggunner
      @ssg-eggunner 26 днів тому +1

      It's crazy how this animation not only sounds like an old game but resembles actual games with some of its shots
      For example 7:57 literally looks like an RPG fight

  • @magma1264
    @magma1264 5 років тому +50

    Game Boy music?

  • @piotralex5
    @piotralex5 3 роки тому +11

    it's like original walt disney but on shrooms

  • @buxombeautease
    @buxombeautease 3 роки тому +43

    Anti-US and war related issues "cutened " to indoctrinate youth, very evident in early Japanese animation as well. The grim elimination of the enemy is sweetened by depicting him as an unraveling line of string. (Popular animated euphemisms for death included characters plunged into water or blown thru walls "never to be seen again".) The art style is very much spun off the early SCRAPPY cartoons by Dick Heumer and the inking style of the OUT OF THE INKWELL cartoons, also presided over by Heumer, although the Russians probably didn't know his name or connect the two series. The credits' names are not translated, but this is directed by Aleksandr Vasilievich Ivanov. He would later denounce his early US influence, which was the prudent thing to do.

    • @bunniifangz
      @bunniifangz 3 роки тому +7

      very well stated

    • @user-fd9zu6yw8v
      @user-fd9zu6yw8v 10 місяців тому

      I wonder where the anti-American theme is here. A pig doesn't look like America. Even the pig drinks vodka, like a typical Russian drunkard. I don't see a military theme here either, theft is an internal problem.

  • @harryrodriguez9796
    @harryrodriguez9796 Рік тому +8

    TODO EL CONCEPTO DE CARICATURA COMO UN ARTE A EVOLUCIONADO SIGNIFICATIVAMENTE EN 100 AÑOS.
    ESTA ES UN TESORO PARA CONOCER EL DESARROLLO DE LA CARICATURA.
    LO DIGO DESDE MI PERSPECTIVA DE DIBUJANTE.

  • @SantiagoRevecoLepeReborn
    @SantiagoRevecoLepeReborn Рік тому +7

    In Soviet Russia, music composes you!

  • @JohnPaulBuce
    @JohnPaulBuce 2 роки тому +10

    this goes hard

  • @MamonFighter2ndChannel
    @MamonFighter2ndChannel 2 роки тому +6

    2:15 That looks like Scrappy, a Columbia cartoon character created by a Disney Legend Dick Heumer.

  • @user-td4st5uu7x
    @user-td4st5uu7x 5 років тому +14

    This style, I will call it "Russian Rubber Hose Animation"

  • @mjau2064
    @mjau2064 4 роки тому +1

    awesome !!! thak you!!

  • @djrkcryt2568
    @djrkcryt2568 4 роки тому +21

    Honestly, i can recreate this song if i wanted to, but, that's a lot of work so imma just like sit here for now...

    • @gyrofrank
      @gyrofrank 2 роки тому +2

      Please that would be amazing, of course if you have enough time

    • @djrkcryt2568
      @djrkcryt2568 2 роки тому +2

      @@gyrofrank imma try to get it started, gon have to listen to it hella times but it’ll be done

    • @gyrofrank
      @gyrofrank 2 роки тому +1

      @@djrkcryt2568 👍

    • @gyrofrank
      @gyrofrank 2 роки тому +2

      @@djrkcryt2568 Sorry for my late reply. I live in Italy so there are different times

    • @djrkcryt2568
      @djrkcryt2568 2 роки тому +2

      @@gyrofrank understandable

  • @staspastukh2005
    @staspastukh2005 3 роки тому +8

    The music sounds like an 80s South Asian movie.

    • @MamonFighter2ndChannel
      @MamonFighter2ndChannel 2 роки тому +3

      And it’s like predating the golden age of anime (70s-90s) for sound effects and music.

  • @vanomasss
    @vanomasss Рік тому +6

    6:45 Pacman ?

  • @louhepton
    @louhepton 4 місяці тому +1

    There were nationwide famines, and crop thieves were demonized. A very real problem that also served as a distraction from other issues.

  • @flamebird2218
    @flamebird2218 2 роки тому +17

    It sounds like it's from an 8 bit video game

    • @TedSh
      @TedSh Рік тому +6

      ​@@staspastukh2005It's because of a unique technology using cut paper and a special detector.
      Basically chipune without the chip

    • @staspastukh2005
      @staspastukh2005 Місяць тому +1

      @@TedSh Understood.

    • @TedSh
      @TedSh Місяць тому

      @@staspastukh2005 here's a similar technology
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_sound

  • @et0t
    @et0t 3 роки тому +16

    there should be a restored version of this (unless if it was finished at this quality)

    • @oldfilmsandstuff4679
      @oldfilmsandstuff4679  3 роки тому +17

      This cartoon was shot on 35mm film and would likely have been the equivilent of 4k in terms of sharpness. I sourced this from a 240p youtube upload, hence the quality. I might have a go at upscaling it at some point

    • @birdie8006
      @birdie8006 Рік тому +3

      @@oldfilmsandstuff4679 I hope this offer still stands a year later!

    • @butelkamiodu8480
      @butelkamiodu8480 11 місяців тому +1

      there's a version with better quality
      ua-cam.com/video/BIMVpl-MRHk/v-deo.html

    • @Beefy-Cheese
      @Beefy-Cheese 6 місяців тому +2

      Yeah, most Soviet era films are much less quality. The budget, and the preservation just wasn't there.

  • @tekmogm5979
    @tekmogm5979 3 роки тому +13

    It sounds a lot like the music from Game Boy Pokemon games especially from 3:14 to 3:30

  • @tumultegrayscale3847
    @tumultegrayscale3847 4 роки тому +15

    Soviet created the Segway

  • @Nauwuna
    @Nauwuna 2 місяці тому

    Метод мультфильм часто пересмотрел. Довольно необычно у него стиль. Думаю сделать на него реанимацию

  • @iwanessarobo7335
    @iwanessarobo7335 2 роки тому +6

    балдежный мультфильм .

  • @Over_Sky
    @Over_Sky 2 роки тому +1

    If someone had said that this was a clip from the UK channel 4 programme "The Trip" I would've believed them.

  • @novostranger
    @novostranger 7 місяців тому +2

    This sounds like something out of the Commodore 64

  • @albertlorenzo655
    @albertlorenzo655 Рік тому +2

    Billy west goes to show Chaplin was not the only one using that tramp
    Outfit and mannerisms.

  • @charbelel-hani5199
    @charbelel-hani5199 3 роки тому

    Nice!

  • @sarahthewolfypanda5552
    @sarahthewolfypanda5552 3 роки тому +5

    The original Monster house in 1934

  • @user-fn7df6go1e
    @user-fn7df6go1e Рік тому +2

    1930's POKEMON?!

  • @nicolaszussy315
    @nicolaszussy315 11 місяців тому +2

    I like the fact than the pig symbolise the Koulaks even in a thing like that there was propaganda

    • @Alexandra_Indina
      @Alexandra_Indina 5 місяців тому

      It's literally soviet production, ofc there's propaganda.

  • @TheMatthewick
    @TheMatthewick 2 роки тому +1

    5:28 catchy

  • @japoople
    @japoople 2 роки тому

    5:26 what a bark

  • @roecatgaming
    @roecatgaming 3 роки тому +5

    8:38

  • @hurricanefury439
    @hurricanefury439 2 роки тому +12

    if the soundtrack of atomic heart doesn't sound like this I refuse to buy it

  • @srenhaandbk7904
    @srenhaandbk7904 2 роки тому +2

    Old Soviet drugs sound great

  • @TheSteveBoyd
    @TheSteveBoyd 24 дні тому +1

    Comrade-dor 34

  • @Eli-dx2uj
    @Eli-dx2uj Рік тому +4

    The soviets gave such little shit about the entertainment sector they didn't even give them music, animators had to conjure it out of thin fucking air using optical film soundtrack hardware, paper strips, and scissor handywork.

  • @croiners4166
    @croiners4166 Рік тому

  • @lizardcola4392
    @lizardcola4392 5 років тому +35

    Who never knew Russia had the most technology, I thought japan had more technology than other countries

    • @oldfilmsandstuff4679
      @oldfilmsandstuff4679  5 років тому +36

      The soviet union prevented a lot of this technology from spreading outside the country

    • @gonzalo20000
      @gonzalo20000 5 років тому +9

      Japan seriously? Germany, US, UK and France were many more advanced. Japan only takes things borrowed from the West and Russia, and then improves them.
      Just because they have Robots does not make them more advanced than others, besides with Robots they were already experimented in the West long before Japan. Only that Japan was always very united with the West, even more after the American occupation.

    • @bunniifangz
      @bunniifangz 3 роки тому +9

      Japan wasn’t a true technological leader until around the 1970s

    • @Alexandra_Indina
      @Alexandra_Indina 5 місяців тому

      ​@@oldfilmsandstuff4679 let's be honest, here was not that much technology to export, i know the case, i live in Russia :) But neither was in Japan. We're talking about 30s after all. All the important non-american technologies were created after WW2.

    • @user-ff6pq1eg8x
      @user-ff6pq1eg8x Місяць тому +1

      The Russians were already advanced before the fall in 1917 and before then they were already working on Electronic TV tests.

  • @zs1171
    @zs1171 2 роки тому +3

    A soviet film from the 1930s... interesting

    • @Alexandra_Indina
      @Alexandra_Indina 5 місяців тому

      Actually USSR produced a lot of films in 30s, nothing really sirprising here.

  • @Kevin93.
    @Kevin93. Рік тому

    Cette musique...
    Quel instrument il utilise ???

    • @user-of7oc4wi1m
      @user-of7oc4wi1m 10 місяців тому +2

      In Russian it is called "Ниватон"(Nivaton), a grandgrandfather of systesisers. Of you want to know more, google "Paper sound in USSR"

  • @user-rl1nv1xp1y
    @user-rl1nv1xp1y Рік тому +1

    NES. 1985.

  • @novostranger
    @novostranger 4 роки тому +3

    Bomberman

  • @ytickyisaiah5121
    @ytickyisaiah5121 2 роки тому +1

    how did the thief exactly die?
    I’m confused as I don’t know the name of his death

  • @alexkuhn5078
    @alexkuhn5078 2 роки тому

    well that was a bit cracksmokey

  • @idelsagil9129
    @idelsagil9129 9 місяців тому

    0:41

  • @hailoosha
    @hailoosha 10 місяців тому +4

    Почему под советским мультиком английские комментарии?

    • @Beefy-Cheese
      @Beefy-Cheese 6 місяців тому +2

      It's important history no matter where you live. Also the video, the subtitles, and the channel are also in English.

    • @Alexandra_Indina
      @Alexandra_Indina 5 місяців тому

      Если использовать мозг, можно очень быстро найти логичный ответ.

  • @IS_CBR_2763
    @IS_CBR_2763 4 місяці тому

    1:17

  • @user-qw2dm3yl8s
    @user-qw2dm3yl8s 5 місяців тому

    Смотрю и вижу дом и фонарь который светит без проводов и дом который возмущается зачем его прицепили к линии проводов тогда как фонарь светит от ничего, так это говорят жильцам чтобы защитить вас от кого либо прошло немного время вот и вор нарисовался, ну вот пошла телеграмма Васе и дружку мы вам платили защищайте ну тд сами додумай.

  • @taranhartle9074
    @taranhartle9074 Рік тому +7

    This is officially like the real-life version of ATOMIC HEART! 😆

  • @carlosmartinez9521
    @carlosmartinez9521 Рік тому +2

    Puro disney y a la vez electronico 😂

  • @rubewaddell1704
    @rubewaddell1704 Рік тому +1

    I'd like to quote Krusty the Clown: "What the hell was that?"

    • @user-qi6pv9jh7o
      @user-qi6pv9jh7o 11 місяців тому +2

      Early soviet animation, with copying Disney's style, and own electronic music

  • @carlosmartinez9521
    @carlosmartinez9521 Рік тому +2

    Estos rusos ya vivian en el año 2055

  • @MagnitudePerson
    @MagnitudePerson 6 місяців тому +4

    Man the USSR was really ahead of its time, almost like Communism wasn't a bad idea after all ;)

    • @Ishouldprobablyhidemynamelol
      @Ishouldprobablyhidemynamelol 5 місяців тому +5

      7 million deaths but we do have electronic music 💕

    • @Alexandra_Indina
      @Alexandra_Indina 5 місяців тому +2

      Ok, so now we're at the point where one short cartoon is a proof that soviet sistem based on terror was right🤡

  • @LemonCat98
    @LemonCat98 2 роки тому

    Were they doing drugs making these? 🤔

  • @richwoodproductiontm9495
    @richwoodproductiontm9495 3 роки тому +9

    you cant do electronic music in the 30’s that makes no sense

    • @droptherapy2085
      @droptherapy2085 3 роки тому +10

      And yet it's crazy how this video has it

    • @thechannelofeverything2615
      @thechannelofeverything2615 3 роки тому +9

      you actually can have music in 1930s. i was looking for history of electronic music to find out

    • @doctahjonez
      @doctahjonez 3 роки тому +12

      They had electronic music in the 1800s actually, it just wasn't popular.

    • @jonaromero1020
      @jonaromero1020 3 роки тому +21

      They did have electronic music in the 1930s, things are older then you think

  • @user-su2nu4qr8w
    @user-su2nu4qr8w 3 роки тому +2

    Позорище

    • @zaszlovjanos
      @zaszlovjanos 3 роки тому +2

      @Konstantin цэевропеец, я бы сказал)

    • @alexd.9336
      @alexd.9336 Рік тому +5

      Другого ответа от чела с таким ником сложно было бы ожидать...

    • @vinogrz
      @vinogrz 9 місяців тому

      Сам ты позорище

    • @akeem2983
      @akeem2983 Місяць тому

      Для того времени этот мультфильм делал многие технически очень сложные вещи. Конечно, он делал их для советской пропаганды, а не для создания художественно ценного мультфильма, но несмотря на это уровень этой анимации удивляет

  • @gustavoceballos5327
    @gustavoceballos5327 2 роки тому +3

    9:28