A Night on Bald Mountain(1933)

movie - first aired/released 1933-11-01 - 9 min - audience 6.3

Animation, Fantasy, Horror

Directed by Alexandre Alexeieff, Claire Parker

Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child looks on. Monsters run and float by: the phantasmagoric is everywhere. A woman's figure tumbles through space. A clash ensues. The horse falls. Goblins take control. The night and its denizens are relentless. Forms appear and become grotesque. Will dawn and calm ever come?