Fitil
Fitil is a popular Soviet short film and television anthology series which ran for 608 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse.
Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Fitilyok eventually became an entirely separate show for children and was renamed Yeralash, meaning "jumble" or "mishmash."
It was directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov to the cast.
It was called "the anecdotes from the Soviet government" in the USSR.
List of episodes
| Number | Year | Plot | Description | Author and editor | Director | Cameraman, soundman and film editor | Artist | Composer | Actors | Studio |
| 1 | 1962 | In one boot | "Head of city pensioners" Tyutiryutin goes on a fishing trip. On his return his wife tells him, that in a meeting held in his absence, he was called a "fool". Tyutiryutin calls all his subordinates together, demanding to know who had called him a "fool". In the end he learns that he was called "fisherman", and not "fool". | Sergey Mikhalkov | Igor Ilyinsky, Arkady Koltsaty | Igor Ilyinsky, | Mosfilm | |||
| 1 | 1962 | Task | School task about "eyewash" | Lev Kulidzhanov, | Muza Krepkogorskaya | Gorky Film Studio | ||||
| 1 | 1962 | Beet | Short animation about beet | Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin | Soyuzmultfilm | |||||
| 1 | 1962 | Living corpse | Two men pretend to be dead, to avoid having to make alimony payments | Nikita Bogoslovsky | Sergey Filippov, Yevgeny Morgunov, Lubov Sokolova | |||||
| 3 | 1962 | Ears | The head of the department makes a meaningless tirade about "if only there were mushrooms growing in your mouth" and what happens from this. His "efficiency" and "initiative" are noticed. They pull him up by the ears. Now he's a deputy manager, and his ears have grown. Again he is pulled up, he is already a manager with even longer ears. Then he delivers his meaningless speeches from a high rostrum, and his ears are very long. Who's pulling him by those ears? | , Sergey Mikhalkov | Ivan Lyubeznov | |||||
| 3 | 1962 | People's rubles | A steel plant in Cherepovets receives equipment that is not used | L. Pankin, Sergey Mikhalkov | L. Pankin | L. Pankin | CSDF | |||
| 3 | 1962 | The virus of indifference | About problems of growing corn | , Sergey Mikhalkov | , Vladimir Popov | , | Soyuzmultfilm | |||
| 3 | 1962 | Without thinking twice | About dismissive treatment with ancient monuments in Vitebsk | CSDF | ||||||
| 3 | 1962 | Revanchist | Anti-fascist cartoon | , Sergey Mikhalkov | Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin | Soyuzmultfilm | ||||
| 3 | 1962 | Covered |