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Nebudte mamuty
10 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1967
Cut-out animation
Audience: children
Commentary: off screen

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Milos Macourek
Designer: Jan Brychta

A humourous modern fairy-tale about boys who woke up a mammoth in a school biology room and experienced a lot of adventures with it. After numerous events in which they discover the worst part of their act the boys eventually find out that going to school is quite nice.

All films directed by Milos Macourek:
Do Not Wake Up the Mammoths • Otylie and 1580 Blots • Too Much Tenderness

All films designed by Jan Brychta:
Biology in a Topper • Do Not Wake Up the Mammoths • How To Obtain a Good Child • The Medicine • Otylie and 1580 Blots