Children and Matches

A cutout animation warning for children about the danger of fire and playing with matches far from the grim warning of your typical PSA and anticipating the complicated human psychology of Norshteyns subsequent work And no doubt there is a metaphor aimed at the power structure 196869 was a crucial period of transition for the animator breaking out of the pack at Soyuzmultfilm and beginning to script and codirect films Not listed on imdb this is one if not the first of his first solo works as director