Welcome to the blog dedicated to the Czech stop motion series Pat & Mat! This is a page where you can navigate through the posts easily and find things of interest to you. If you are visiting the blog for the first time, you should check out the introductory post. On this page you can find posts on the blog spread out in several categories, while they are also accessible using the chronological Blog Archive on the right side of the page. Updated August 23, 2021.
Filmography
For a complete list of the episodes, along with credits for each of them, click here. *to see why a couple of episodes are listed differently in this list, look up the episode order label.
General history
Interviews
Own work
Translated interviews
Animators
posts highlighting the works of certain animators on the series or the animation work on particular episodes:
Minutiae series (ongoing)
In this series of posts, I discuss details from the ... a je to! series (1979-85), one episode at a time. These posts are an amalgamation of most other categories on this list, featuring information about the history of the episodes, the people who worked on them (especially the animators) and, chiefly, production details, for instance, the look of the sets and shooting errors. You can see all of the posts (starting from the most recent) by clicking on the minutiae label.
Production details
Home video releases
Filmography
For a complete list of the episodes, along with credits for each of them, click here. *to see why a couple of episodes are listed differently in this list, look up the episode order label.
General history
- The unreleased episode Playing Cards and aiF Studio's dissilution
- Newly-discovered opening sequence of Playing Cards
- On the names of the characters and the series throughout the decades
- The history of the episode Maľovanie
- Commercials from the Patmat studio
Interviews
Own work
Translated interviews
Animators
posts highlighting the works of certain animators on the series or the animation work on particular episodes:
- Jan Klos: pseudonyms on 1984-85 episodes
- Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly's work on the series
- Uncredited animation work in 1980s episodes
- Animation credits for 2018-20 episodes
- Animator switch: Maľovanie (more about: The history of the episode Maľovanie)
- Animation in Parkety and Vrata
Minutiae series (ongoing)
In this series of posts, I discuss details from the ... a je to! series (1979-85), one episode at a time. These posts are an amalgamation of most other categories on this list, featuring information about the history of the episodes, the people who worked on them (especially the animators) and, chiefly, production details, for instance, the look of the sets and shooting errors. You can see all of the posts (starting from the most recent) by clicking on the minutiae label.
Production details
- Repurposed sets: parts of older sets reused
- DVNR disfigurement: the overuse of noise reduction filters in 2003
- Currency mismatch: money props in episode Kolečka (2003)
- Post-production errors in the Pat a Mat kutí series (2020)
- A Hand in Dlaždice (1992)
Reviews and news
Home video releases
- Pat & Mat DVD by aiF Studio: first DVD release of the series (1999)
- On how the 1979-85 episodes are presented on home video (Záhradka as an example)
- Pat & Mat collection by TDK Deep Impression (2001), which features excellent masters
- Pat & Mat in Japanese cinemas: the predecessor to the TDK collection
Other
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