Mr Prokouk becomes an inventor

Mr Prokouk works in a menial repetitive job. Hunched over, uncomfortable, he decides to invent some apparatus to raise his drilling machine to his height. While at the drawing board he falls asleep and dreams that he is a successful inventor with thousands of patents to his name. He awakes and rushes to borrow books on patents. He then uses the books to elevate his machine. Animated film.

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Credits

director

Karel Zeman

Duration

00:09:23:00

Production places

Poland

Production dates

1948

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

314249

Language

English

Subject categories

Animation

Short films

Short films → Short films - Poland

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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Poland, 1948

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