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Verwitterte Melodie

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Verwitterte Melodie
The title card of the German cartoon.
Directed byFischerkösen
Written byHorst von Möllendorff
Music byLothar Brühne
Release date
6 April 1943
Running time
10 min.
CountryNazi Germany

Verwitterte Melodie, or Weather-beaten Melody, is a 1942 animated short, made in Nazi Germany. It was written mainly by cartoonist Hans Fischerkoesen, although the sole credits often went to Horst von Möllendorff [1]. It was animated by Jiří Brdečka in Prague.

Plot

The general outline of the plot is of a bee that finds an abandoned phonograph in a meadow and uses her stinger as a stylus to play the record on it.