"Thief!" 1934 Soviet cartoon, electronic soundtrack

[robcat2075]

"Don't steal crops, kids"

This 1930s Soviet animation looks like they still had more exposure to the 1920s Fleischer animation than the contemporary Disney product.

I've read differing accounts of how the electronic sound was produced. One offers that it is an early electronic instrument. The other is that they were drawing wave forms by hand for the optical sound track.

 

Original soundtrack with subtitles:

 

With modern commentary

 

It's ambitious but it's no "Worker & Parasite"!