Pat & Mat: Playing Cards – in good quality!

Hello, all!

As I'm busy with professional and personal obligations (amongst others, I'm finishing my first book, which has nothing to do with animation), this blog has been on pause for a couple of years now. I sometimes get the bug to go back to it, but the fire quickly gets extinguished by all the other things waiting for their turn. However, sometimes life throws a curveball (or, dare I say, plays its card?) and stops you in your tracks. This is one of those cases. 

Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a pristine copy of the final Pat & Mat episode produced by aiF, Playing Cards (frequently known as Karty):

UPDATE: Unfortunately, my original YouTube channel got banned due to circumstances which were never justified or explained by YouTube. Therefore, I am linking the video forwarded by TymekGry (explained below).

What, how, and why?! These are probably some of the questions you are thinking about, but I'll try to, as briefly as possible, explain the story behind this post.

Exactly 10 days ago, this copy of the film was unveiled to the digital world by a Polish fan who goes by the handle TymekGry. He uploaded it to YouTube via another fan, and also notified me by writing several comments on this blog.

I did not approve those comments. For reasons explained below, my reaction was not astonishment, but rather circumspection. I had to consider the whole situation. Indeed, some days later, the video with the copy disappeared, perhaps never to be seen again?

Of course, this is not how the Internet works. Once it's out there, it's out there. There's no going back to the bunker. Indeed, with just a simple search you could find it even without this post. So, where do I come into all of this?

I was not surprised to see this copy of the film. I had seen it before, many a time, the first of which happened on August 21, 2020. That was the day I met with František Váša in Split. It was a strange time – the summer Split sun made the weather sweltering, and the city was bustling with tourists, but everything was a bit subdued due to COVID-19.

Our meeting was anything but subdued, however. I was really glad to meet a great animator and director of the series, while it also pleased him to meet such a superfan. We didn't have a chance to communicate much via email, so I was thrilled and ready to bombard him with questions. However, as soon as we sat down on the Pjaca square, Mr Váša reached into his bag and took out this:

You can imagine my excitement then! Váša's words were something along the lines of "This is something for you. It's from the original." Of course, I ran home as fast as I could and inserted the DVD into my computer (which is by now long out of use). Before pressing play, I invited my sister in to share this, for me, historic moment. The opening "New Door" intro rolled out in amazing quality, followed by a never-seen credits sequence, then the rest of the episode. The 12 minutes and 40 seconds whizzed through in a blur. Finally, I had seen the entirety of the so-called "missing" or "lost" episode.

The beautiful lettering, one of the last to be done on film

The digital copy of the episode was made from original materials, presumably the original negative. I don't know what the exact purpose was, but this happened many years ago. Judging from the files on the DVD, back in 2009.

Naturally, I wanted to share this with my fellow ajetologists, but it wasn't to be. When he handed me the DVD, Mr Váša also told me not to share it in the open. Lest some old spirits be disturbed. As you might remember, the film was a collateral victim of the conflict between several members of the aiF studio, which made it go extinct. These conflicts were escalated into years-long lawsuits, so there was no point to add fuel to the fire.

I alluded to why in the introduction to my published interview: "As you can imagine, aiF’s break-up was not the most idyllic of splits (on the contrary, lawsuits sprung up) and there is no point in possibly opening old wounds with certain people through my blog."

In the end, I shared this copy with only a handful of people, who were gracious enough to never spill the beans. One of them is an animation pen pal who lives in Texas. He showed it to some kids in a daycare centre he was working in. It was a bit of a silly prank – I joked that the film finally reached its target audience, the USA!

That was that. As agreed, I never made any suggestion that this copy existed, apart from a buried clue. My Pat & Mat filmography page has for years contained the full credits for the episode. Nobody thought of asking me where I got them from, though.

I have to admit I toyed with the idea of releasing the copy online, but I would never do such a thing without previously consulting the people who worked on it, thereby betraying their trust. 

That's how we get to 2024.

When Tymek put this online, he did it rashly, without consultation and by explicitly describing how he obtained it. The person who provided him with the copy did not expect the upload to happen. This is why they later requested its removal.

This is where I felt I had to step in. I had been in contact with the person (who, I should mention, is not the director) before, and we discussed the situation through several emails. The conclusion was the following: what's done cannot be undone. The film is now out there, and let the world enjoy it. However, this will have to be done anonymously. I politely call on Tymek and his pals to remove all the references to the person who sent the copy and how it happened. This is all they ask in return of giving you the episode. Thank you for all you have done.

There was only one thing left to do – have a quick chat with the director, František Váša. He gave his okay for the film to be presented here and beyond. If anything, it's his most singular take on the series (in spite of the fact that he was pressured to include many elements he did not intend to, like the voices). He, along with a crew of a handful of people, worked on it tirelessly for more than a year. 

This was, now, 26 years ago. It's nice that we can finally put the whole story to rest and enjoy the fruit of their labour in a proper way.

This whole story could have been handled a bit better, but feelings were hurt only briefly and now it's time to move on. And by that I mean, of course, that we should be seeing the older episodes in such good quality as well! Until some other time, ciao :)

František Váša interview (2020)

František Váša working on B. Pojar's Hiroshi

After a long pause, I'm today finally showing you something very interesting: my interview with František Váša!

What? How? When did this happen? Quite a long time from now, actually, August 21st, 2020. Some months before, I was able to reach Mr Váša by email (big thanks to Dan cz for help) and introduce him to the blog, which he very much enjoyed. He is often difficult to reach by email, though, so I was especially pleased to hear he would be visiting Split, my hometown! This was, in fact, nothing unusual. Dalmatia is often a summer destination for Czechs and his family is no exception. I had a chance to meet him and ask him what I wanted.

Our meeting took place almost in transit. Mr Váša had just arrived to Split and had a ferry to catch to the island of Vis, so we were able to talk only for less than an hour in Split’s center. Our exchanges were a bit comical; Mr Váša speaks little English – I understand Czech well but can only speak half-broken sentences with intrusive Croatian vocabulary. However, I came prepared with translated questions and they quickly set us off. I spent the next 50 or so minutes getting to talk about most of the stuff which went on in the aiF Studio with one of its leaders! In Czech, of course. It was, as you can imagine, an exhilarating experience, only compounded when I accompanied Mr Váša to the ferry, met his lovely wife (who speaks perfect English!) and then got to chat with an even bigger name in Czech stop motion animation, director Jiří Barta, who was also going to Vis! It was wonderful to meet all of them and, hopefully, this was just the first of our encounters. Very much a day to remember!

Still, the interview! I must apologize to my faithful readers for posting it very late, but the delay was caused by multiple factors, from troubles with faithfully translating certain remarks to lack of time, but also not being able to reach Mr Váša afterwards for months at a time. I should also mention that, per his request, I will not be sharing certain small portions of the interview. As you can imagine, aiF’s break-up was not the most idyllic of splits (on the contrary, lawsuits sprung up) and there is no point in possibly opening old wounds with certain people through my blog. I hope you can respect that, as I have. The majority of the story is still here, I can assure you.

Before continuing, I must again thank František Váša not only for agreeing to meet with me and answer my questions, but also for providing some images which have further enriched this post!

 

The interview

MP: How did you react when you first saw that there is a blog devoted to Pat and Mat?

FV: [laughs] Ha, I thought to myself, and forgive me, is it possible that somebody can show this much interest in Pat and Mat, is everything fine with that person? 

MP: Hahaha, well somebody must exist somewhere!

What's in a name?

This is the first post to be published after the corona virus has spread through Europe and its pandemic has been declared. I wish all of you good health. Please follow the advice of medical experts and protect yourselves and your loved ones. Only together can we beat the virus in this difficult time. Stay safe!

Pat & Mat is a show famous all over the world. However, the official name of the series as it is today only came about after the series had already been sold to more than 40 countries. Here is a list of names of the show in different countries, taken from Wikipedia. Users from all over the world have amended it with titles from their respective countries.

Language(s)	Title(s)
Arabic	"زينغو و رينغو" (Zingo and Ringo)
Catalan	"En Pat i en Mat"
Croatian	"A je to! (I to je to!) Pat i Mat"
Danish	"Naboerne Per & Mads (The Neighbors Per & Mads)"
Dutch*	"Buurman en Buurman" (Neighbour and Neighbour), formerly "De twee stuntels" (The two klutzes)
English	"Pat and Mat"
Estonian	"Meistrimehed Pat ja Mat" (Handymen Pat and Mat)
Finnish	"Hupsis!, Pat ja Mat" (Oops!, Pat and Mat)
German	"… und fertig!" (... and that's it!), "Pat und Mat", "Peter und Paul", "Sepp und Heiri" (in Switzerland), "Mack und Macke (in DDR)
Hungarian	"Kétbalkezesek" (Fumblers) (literally "2 Left Handers"), Pat és Mat
Icelandic	"Klaufabárðarnir" (The clumsy guys)
Japanese	"パットとマット"
Korean	"패트와 매트"
Macedonian	"Пат и Мат"
Norwegian	"To gode naboer" (Two Good Neighbours)
Persian	"!همینه " (This is it!) also "پت و مت" (Pat & Mat)
Polish	"Sąsiedzi (The Neighbours), Pat i Mat"
Portuguese	"Zeca e Joca"
Romanian	"Asta e! Pat și Mat"
Russian	"Тяпа и Ляпа" (Tlyapa and Lyapa), "Пат и Мат", "Соседи" (Neighbours)
Slovenian	"A je to! Pat in Mat"
South-Africa	"Hans en Mans"
Spanish	"Los Chapuceros", "Pat y Mat"
Swedish	"Två snubbar (Two dudes)
Welsh	"Now a Ned"

The international titles can be divided into four groups: 1) ... a je to! and its translations (... und fertig!),  2) distinctive, native names for the two characters (Zingo & Ringo), 3) variations of Pat and Mat after 1989 and 4) usually one-word titles referring to both of the characters, mostly pointing out that they are neighbours (Sąsiedzi). Some of these are also combinations of one of the above, like the Dutch Buurman en Buurman.

This post is, however, primarily concerned with how the original names came to be in the first place.

As explained by his son Marek, the genesis of the handymen duo were comic strips by Lubomír Beneš published in local newspapers. They featured two characters named pan (Mr.) Ouholíček and pan Sedlec. The names were borrowed from two villages near Roztoky, where Beneš lived, Úholičky and Sedlec, which you can easily find on Google Maps these days. Unfortunately, no other details about these comic strips were ever put forward by Marek. We don't know what the characters looked like or where and when were the strips published.

In 1976, our heroes were truly born when Beneš and dramaturge Jiří Kubíček, who had worked together since 1974, were joined by cartoonist Vladimír Jiránek. In an interview, Beneš stated that he and Jiránek "locked themselves in the studio and drew and designed until they came to the look of the two figures". Below, you can see Marek Beneš holding the first page of the technical screenplay for the premiere short, Kuťáci. The cover reveals that its working title was Podařené dopoledne (A Nice Morning) and projected length 197 meters. You can see the names I previously mentioned, with additions next to them: Ouholíček became Červeňák (Red), while Sedlec became Žluťák (Yellow).

photo: ČT show Gejzír

What does Kuťáci even mean, you ask? Well, it's not that easy to explain. The official translation used in the 1990s was The Tinkers and it's mostly there. Kuťáci (pronounced coo-tyah-tsee for all you non-Czechs) is the plural form of the noun kuťák - notice the rhyming analogy to Žluťák and Červeňák; a common name for the two characters in Czech is also ajeťáci, derived from the name of the series I discuss down below. Kuťák in itself seems to be a bit of an obscure expression, as I couldn't find it in any Czech online dictionary, while it also appears as a surname. I've been informed by a Czech speaker that kuťák is, as I suspected, a colloquial term for handyman, obviously related to the formal designation kutil.

Lubomír Beneš interview (1994)

Lubomír Beneš, February 1995 (photo: ČTK)

Lubomír Beneš died in 1995, so there aren't many interviews with him around. However, I was able to find two newspaper articles which feature interviews with Beneš from 1994, a year before his death. They were conducted when seven new Pat & Mat episodes were completed and premiered. My thanks for these articles go to Tereza Hunkařová from the Masaryk University of Brno, who included them in her bachelor thesis titled Večerníček jako dramaturgické specifikum v televizní tvorbě pro děti a mládež, or Večerníček as a dramaturgical specifics in television production for children and youth, which is available at this link. She in turn got the newspaper clippings from Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, so my thanks go to them as well. I've translated the articles from Czech, so if there are any mistakes, feel free to comment on them.

The first article is from Blesk magazín:

“What is: ... and it is!” - Blanka Kubíčková’s interview with Lubomír Beneš

The clumsy, inventive egghead screwball pair: puppet do-it-yourselfers Pat and Mat. But first, a word from director Lubomír Beneš and artist Vladimír Jiránek. In a studio where seven episodes were recently filmed, the two did not want to talk to me. Lubomír Beneš did so for them instead.

When were these two handymen born and how did they get together?

Vladimír Jiránek and I started inventing hijinks in 1976 because we wanted to let off steam from what was happening around us, from totalitarianism. We drew and designed until we came to the look of the two figures. They were a little different than the audience knows them today ― without caps and more plump. The first part was called Kuťáci. We wanted to continue shooting, but Krátký film did not allow us to do so. The reason given was that Kuťáci are just ordinary entertainment and not appropriate for the cultural policy of the time. However, Slovak Television showed interest in further episodes, and in the end we filmed twenty-eight episodes for them.

Repurposed sets

Pat & Mat's 1984-85 cottage on exhibition - or is it? (source: unknown)

Constructing the scale models used in filming of stop motion animation, as well as making all the props, is an elaborate and time-consuming process. The drill Pat & Mat use, as we've already mentioned, is as old as the characters themselves. If it works and looks good, there's no need to change it. As such, some of the sets used for the series are actually repurposed sets from other shorts or series.

A certain part of Lubomír Beneš's Král a skřítek (The King and the Goblin), his version of the King Midas tale, revolves around a fountain with a golden dragon on top. Here's what it looks like in that 1980 short:

Four years later, the fountain resurfaced in a short scene from the opening of Klavír, ...a je to! episode #25. This time, the top was changed to a statue of Mat (?) ― yes, I don't really understand it either.

Interestingly, an iconic set of the 1979-85 series had also been repurposed.

an intruder at the house?

DVNR disfigurement

"Where the hell is half of my hand?!"

The 2002-04 Pat & Mat episodes are a bit of a technological hybrid. They were the last episodes to be shot with analog cameras on 35mm film. Those films were then transferred digitally and (not counting the pilot, Puzzle) opening and closing titles were added on to the digital copies. The results were not satisfying. The first batch of episodes (especially those from the Patmat studio) have somewhat washed out colors and the transfers are full of dirt, which made the episodes look older than they were and they were, in fact, brand new. The results improved from episode #63 onward, but the digital processing team at Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, the producer of the series, obviously still had  reservations. They tried to fix the situation with a pretty bad solution: DVNR.

As Anime News Network writes, DVNR or Digial Video Noise Reduction is a digital filter that's applied to video to remove video noise, film dirt, and other undesirable artifacts from the image. DVNR mostly combines two methods: comparing each pixel to its neighbors to figure out if that pixel is a tiny speck that's standing out too much and comparing the same pixel location in neighboring frames to see if it disappears. DVNR can have beneficial effects on live-action films, but using it for animation is not recommended. In animation, many things move faster than they would in real life, leading the program to think that they are in fact dirt. The program then tries to remove those items as it believes they are obstructions to a clearer picture.

DVNR was applied to four episodes, #72-75. Those four episodes are: Fax, Jahody, Hrají golf and Někam to zapadlo. I first noticed something was wrong with the video while watching Jahody. There seemed to be something wobbly with the animation and I couldn't figure out why. A slower playback discovered that the episodes suffered from bad DVNR. Whenever there was rapid movement, the computer thought it was actually excessive dirt and tried to correct it, ruining many frames in the process. The most affected were Pat & Mat's hands, with parts of them obliterated when they moved in quick succession. See the results for yourselves:

Fax

Mat's kulich missing its top

 DVNR does not just take away, but also adds where it shouldn't.

Here Mat receives an extra limb:

Unreleased episode Karty and the dissolution of aiF Studio

Introduction

Pat & Mat's history is full of great stories and tidbits. Marek Beneš, the current director of the series, often tells the story of how he went to a market in Iran while promoting the series there and stumbled upon a seller with unofficial Pat & Mat merchandise. The vendor repeatedly tried to assure him that Mat was in fact the one with the yellow shirt, completely unaware of who he was talking to. However, there is one story that captures the imagination of anyone who even superficially looks at the history of the series and it's the story of the would-be 50th episode of the series, Karty (or Playing Cards in English), a fully completed episode from 1998 which never officially saw the light of day. It is like one of the duo’s ridiculous inventions ― prepared, animated, completed and then never seen, making it completely dysfunctional. 

our heroes playing cards in the eponymous episode

Naturally, as soon as word got out to that this blog exists, a request to cover the history of the episode was requested. This text will cover the episode’s history and the dissolution of aiF Studio that produced it. But first, let’s take a closer look at the mythology built around this episode in the preceding years.

How did we get here? Info about the episode online

Karty’s existence would have probably been mostly unheard of before 2014 had it not been mentioned on the aiF Studio’s official website back in the day. According to the website, Karty was supposed to have been the first in a series of 52 new episodes which would also have been dubbed. This was an insanely ambitious project and would have taken several years to complete. However, the website, available to this day, but on a different address, also contained an important remark: the episode was not authorized for release or distribution. 

aiF Studio's mention of Karty

The Pat & Mat fansite, which served as the most informed website about the series during the early 2000s, also found the episode to be a complete mystery, except for the fact that two snippets of it could be seen on a Korean website. We’ll get to that later. 

Info about the episode on the fansite

The official website of the Patmat studio, opened in 2001 by Marek Beneš, ignored the episode’s existence completely, as it does to this day, which is given the episode’s status completely logical. This was how things remained until sometime around 2006 the website of the studio animation people uploaded these four screenshots of the episode. 

Marek Beneš interview (2017)

A neat interview with Marek Beneš was posted on the Croatian website express.hr in September of 2017. Available here, this interview by Paula Bobanović is one of the better interviews with Marek posted online, so I'll translate it here. The images also come from that interview unless noted otherwise.

When did you get the idea to make a feature film with Pat & Mat?

The idea to bring Pat & Mat to the movie theaters was born in 2016, when the duo celebrated their 40^th birthday. Actually, they had originally appeared in cinemas, as the first episode was made to be distributed in movie theaters.

How did you find the team which made the whole movie and were production companies interested in financing the project?

This time everything happened in reverse. The movie was actually supposed to be a series made for television, but we released it in cinemas for the 40^th anniversary as well. All the work was done by one animator, while myself and my production company financed the movie on our own, without anyone's help.

in the Patmat film studio, 2014

In how many countries has the show been broadcast by now and in which countries is it currently airing?

My father said that the series was, around 30 years ago, bought by more than 80 countries, while my movie is currently being shown in 20, which include Croatia, South Korea, the Scandinavian countries, France and, of course, Czechia and Slovakia.

How old were you when your father started working on the series with his colleague, illustrator Vladimír Jiránek? Were you even interested in what they were doing since the show was actually meant for adults?

Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly: animator profile

Animators are one of the unsung heroes of Pat & Mat and probably every stop motion series. They are the ones who spend the most time actually creating the action we see on the screen, which makes their work vitally important.

While they have mostly stuck to similar principles throughout the years, each animator on this series has some quirks and differences which make their style unique. One of these animators, and definitely a legendary one, is Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly.

at work in 2019 (photo: ČT)

Biography

Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly was born on January 9, 1948 in České Budějovice. He is originally from a known aristocratic family whose roots are in Czechia, France and Austria. Actually, Alfons is a count, which makes him probably the only count to have worked on Pat & Mat. ČT produced a documentary about his family as part of their Blue Blood series. It can be viewed here, but only if you access it from Czechia.

He joined the Jiří Trnka studio in 1969 and started animating sometime in the 1970s, working on many important films, with different directors such as Stanislav Látal and Jiří Barta. When Lubomír Beneš opened his aiF Studio, Alfons followed him there and worked up to the 1997 Jája a Pája series. When aiF went to pieces in 1998, he joined Hafan Film, while also working on some episodes for Patmat. In the next decades he again worked on some feature films, most notably Toys in the Attic and Fimfárum 2.

Even though he is about to turn 72, Mensdorff-Pouilly is still working on Pat & Mat, animating some of the episodes of the new 39 episodes due for TV release 2018-2020. Along with puppet armature maker Ondřej Zika, he is the only member of the current production team who had some involvement on the original ...a je to! series.

Pat & Mat career

His Pat & Mat career spans four decades. After animating on the 1982 episode Mal'ovanie, he worked on the episodes made in aiF, three from 1992 and four from 1994. He handled the episodes which took place outside, while František Váša worked on the indoor sets. Interestingly, in one recent interview Váša stated that a mishap happened to one of his colleagues, presumably this animator, when during the replicating process a negative cutter severely damaged the negative on which a Pat & Mat episode had been filmed, which meant that the whole short had to be reshot from scratch. I wonder which episode was affeceted by that.

at work on ep. #45 in 1994 (photo by I. Vít)

Credits for Pat & Mat episodes in chronological order

 Credits for every Pat & Mat episode produced so far

this list by Marin Pažanin, with special thanks to Jiří Kubíček and Jan Klos

most recent update: September 19, 2020

1976

#001
Kuťáci (KUŤÁCI)
English title: The Tinkers

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek (appears on all episodes)
Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek, Jiří Kubíček
Animation: Karel Chocholín
Music: Luboš Fišer
Camera: Jiří Šafář
Editing: Helena Lebdušková
Production Management: Tomáš Formáček
Studio Management: Miroslav Kubricht
Assistants*: Augustin Bezděkovský, Ladislav Bartoš, Viktor Fixl, Jiří Janeček, Kateřina Hladká, Dagmar Müllerová, Marie Netrvalová, Věra Petzoldová, Gustav Polášek, Pavel Šimák, Jan Tippmann
Direction: Lubomír Beneš
Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio, 1976
Working title: Podařené dopoledne (A Nice Morning)
Premiered in cinemas 12.08.1976.
NOTE: The assistants' full names are included in this list in place of their initials.

...a je to!
(...and that's it!)

 

1979

#002

Tapety

English title: The Wallpapers

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek, Jiří Kubíček
Design: Vladimír Jiránek, Lubomír Beneš

Animation: Vlasta Pospíšilová, Xenie Vavrečková

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production Management: Věra Henzlová

Camera: Jiří Šafář

Assistants: Miroslav Kubricht, Ladislav Bartoš, Viktor Fixl, Kateřina Hladká, Jiří Janeček, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Müller, Marie Netrvalová, Pavel Šimák, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Shown on ČST 23.11.1982.

#003

Dielňa 

Czech title: Dílna 

English title: The Workshop

Story and Screenplay: Vladimír Jiránek
Design: Vladimír Jiránek, Lubomír Beneš

Animation: Karel Chocholín, Xenie Vavrečková

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production Management: Věra Henzlová

Camera: Jiří Šafář

Assistants: Miroslav Kubricht, Ladislav Bartoš, Viktor Fixl, Kateřina Hladká, Jiří Janeček, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Müller, Marie Netrvalová, Pavel Šimák, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Shown on ČST 24.11.1982.

#004

Koberec 

English title: The Carpet

Story and Screenplay: Jiří Kubíček

Design: Vladimír Jiránek, Lubomír Beneš
Animation: Xenie Vavrečková, Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production Management: Věra Henzlová

Camera: Jiří Šafář

Assistants: Miroslav Kubricht, Ladislav Bartoš, Viktor Fixl, Kateřina Hladká, Jiří Janeček, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Müller, Marie Netrvalová, Pavel Šimák, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Shown on ČST 25.11.1982.

#005 
Hojdacie kreslo

Czech title: Houpací křeslo

English title: The Rocking Chair

Story and Screenplay: Vladimír Jiránek

Design: Vladimír Jiránek, Lubomír Beneš
Animation: Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production Management: Věra Henzlová

Camera: Jiří Šafář

Assistants: Miroslav Kubricht, Ladislav Bartoš, Viktor Fixl, Kateřina Hladká, Jiří Janeček, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Müller, Marie Netrvalová, Pavel Šimák, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Shown on ČST 26.11.1982.

#006

Obraz

English title: The Painting

Story and Screenplay: Vladimír Goldman

Design: Vladimír Jiránek, Lubomír Beneš
Animation: Xenie Vavrečková

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production Management: Věra Henzlová

Camera: Jiří Šafář

Assistants: Miroslav Kubricht, Ladislav Bartoš, Viktor Fixl, Kateřina Hladká, Jiří Janeček, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Müller, Marie Netrvalová, Pavel Šimák, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Shown on ČST 27.11.1982.

 #007

Garáž 

English title: The Garage

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš

Design: Vladimír Jiránek, Lubomír Beneš
Animation: Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production Management: Věra Henzlová

Camera: Jiří Šafář

Assistants: Miroslav Kubricht, Ladislav Bartoš, Viktor Fixl, Kateřina Hladká, Jiří Janeček, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Müller, Marie Netrvalová, Pavel Šimák, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Shown on ČST 28.11.1982.

 #008

Svetlo

English title: The Light

Story and Screenplay: Vladimír Goldman

Design: Vladimír Jiránek, Lubomír Beneš
Animation: Xenie Vavrečková

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production Management: Věra Henzlová

Camera: Jiří Šafář

Assistants: Miroslav Kubricht, Ladislav Bartoš, Viktor Fixl, Kateřina Hladká, Jiří Janeček, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Müller, Marie Netrvalová, Pavel Šimák, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST
Shown on ČST 29.11.1982.

1981

 #009

Gramofón 

English title: The Gramophone

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vendulka Čvančarová
Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek
Animation: Karel Chocholín
Music: Petr Skoumal
Editing: Věra Benešová
Production Management: Viktor Mayer
Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug
Camera: Vladímir Malík
Assistants: Margit Červená, Eva Jirsová, Miroslav Kuchař, Vladimír Nevosad, Ivan Vít, Jitka Zvirocká
Direction: Lubomír Beneš
Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST
Premiered on ČST 30.11.1982.

 #010

Grill  

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vendulka Čvančarová
Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek
Animation: Jan Klos
Music: Petr Skoumal
Editing: Věra Benešová
Production Management: Viktor Mayer
Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug
Camera: Vladímir Malík
Assistants: Margit Červená, Eva Jirsová, Miroslav Kuchař, Vladimír Nevosad, Ivan Vít, Jitka Zvirocká
Direction: Lubomír Beneš
Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST
Premiered on ČST 1.12.1982.

1982

  

#011

Sťahovanie  

Czech title: Stěhování

English title: Moving Day

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš 

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Jan Klos

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Magda Sandersová

Production Management: Václav Strnad

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Vladímir Malík

Assistants: Pavel Šimák, Margit Červená, Eva Jirsová, Miroslav Kuchař, Vladimír Nevosad, Darina Plichtová, Ivan Vít, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Premiered on ČST 2.12.1982.

#012

Voda  

English title: Water

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš 

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Magda Sandersová

Production Management: Václav Strnad

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Vladímir Malík

Assistants: Pavel Šimák, Margit Červená, Eva Jirsová, Miroslav Kuchař, Vladimír Nevosad, Darina Plichtová, Ivan Vít, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Premiered on ČST 3.12.1982.

 #013

Záhradka 

English title: The Garden

  

Story and Screenplay: Vladimír Jiránek, Vendulka Čvančarová 

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Věra Benešová

Production Management: Václav Strnad

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Vladímir Malík

Assistants: Pavel Šimák, Margit Červená, Eva Jirsová, Miroslav Kuchař, Vladimír Nevosad, Darina Plichtová, Ivan Vít, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Premiered(?) on ČST 6.10.1986.

 #014

Maľovanie 

English title: The Painting Job

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vendulka Čvančarová 

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Věra Benešová

Production: Věra Henzlová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Ladislav Bartoš, David Fílcik, Viktor Fixl, Kateřina Hladká, Jiří Janeček, Dagmar Müllerová, Marie Netrvalová, Ondřej Zika, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Shown on ČST 5.02.1989.

 #015

Skokani 

English title: The Jumpers

Story and Screenplay: Jiří Kubíček 

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Jan Klos

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: David Fílcik, Viktor Fixl, Jiří Janeček, Dagmar Müllerová, Marie Netrvalová, František(?) Slabý, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Premiered on ČST 4.12.1982.
NOTE: The production order of this episode is disputed. See here for more details.

 #016 

Krížovka  

English title: The Crossword Puzzle

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vendulka Čvančarová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: David Fílcik, Viktor Fixl, Jiří Janeček, Dagmar Müllerová, Marie Netrvalová, František(?) Slabý, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST
 

1983

 #017

Búdka 

English title: The Birdhouse

Story and Screenplay: Vladimír Jiránek

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Jan Klos

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

 #018

Veľké pranie 

Czech title: Velké prádlo

English title: The Big Laundry

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vendulka Čvančarová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Shown on ČST 6.02.1989.

 #019

Telocvičňa 

English title: The Gym

Story and Screenplay: Vendulka Čvančarová, Lubomír Beneš

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production Management: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Viktor Fixl, Jiří Janeček, Dagmar Müllerová, Marie Netrvalová, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST
Shown on ČST 7.02.1989.
NOTE: The production order of this episode is disputed. See here for more details.

 #020

Raňajky v tráve 

Czech title: Snídaně v trávě

English title: Breakfast in Grass

Story and Screenplay: Vendulka Čvančarová, Lubomír Beneš

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

 #021

Práčka 

English title: The Washing Machine

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vendulka Čvančarová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Jan Klos

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

 #022

Dážď 

Czech title: Déšť

English title: Rain

Story and Screenplay: Vendulka Čvančarová, Lubomír Beneš

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

 

1984

 #023

Výlet 

English title: The Trip

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vendulka Čvančarová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Chocholín, Jan Klos

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST 

 #024

Vinári 

English title: The Winemakers

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vendulka Čvančarová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Jiří Janeček, Vít Lebeda, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Vladimír Vimmer, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

 #025

Korčule 

Czech title: Brusle

English title: The Skates

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vendulka Čvančarová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Ján Keks*

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Jiří Janeček, Vít Lebeda, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Vladimír Vimmer, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Premiered on ČST 5.10.1986.

*pseudonym for Jan Klos, more here.

 #026 

Klavír  

English title: The Piano

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vendulka Čvančarová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Jiří Janeček, Vít Lebeda, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Vladimír Vimmer, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST
Premiered on ČST 7.10.1986.
NOTE: The production order of this episode is disputed. See here for more details.

 

1985

 #027

Hrnčiari

Czech title: Hrnčíři

English title: The Potters

Story and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vendulka Čvančarová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Chocholín, Ján Keks*

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Jiří Janeček, Vít Lebeda, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Vladimír Vimmer, Jitka Zvirocká

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Premiered on ČST 9.10.1986.

*pseudonym for Jan Klos, more here.

 #028

Porucha

English title: The Malfunction

Story and Screenplay: Vendulka Čvančarová, Lubomír Beneš

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Klos*

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Jiří Janeček, Vít Lebeda, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Vladimír Vimmer, Jitka Zvirocká, Viktor Fixl

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Shown on ČST 8.02.1989.

*pseudonym for Jan Klos, more here.

 #029

Jablko 

English title: The Apple

Story and Screenplay: Vendulka Čvančarová, Lubomír Beneš

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Karel Chocholín

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Helena Lebdušková

Production: Klára Stoklasová

Sound: Ivo Špalj, Benjamin Astrug

Camera: Jan Müller

Assistants: Vladimír Nevosad, Jiří Janeček, Vít Lebeda, Dagmar Müllerová, Jan Tippmann, Ondřej Zika, Vladimír Vimmer, Jitka Zvirocká, Viktor Fixl

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio for ČST

Shown on ČST 12.02.1989.

NOTE 1: For unknown reasons, the final scene of this episode is cut in current releases by Bonton.
NOTE 2: The production order of this episode is disputed. See here for more details.

Pat & Mat 

1989

 #030

Klíč

English title: The Key

Story, Design and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Marek Beneš

Music: Petr Skoumal

Dramaturgy: Hana Stibralová

Assistants: The collective of Jiří Trnka Studio

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Editing: Jan Sládek

Production: Bedřich Strnad

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio and Megatrend

 #031

Nábytek 

English title: The Furniture 

Story, Design and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Animation: Xenie Vavrečková

Music: Petr Skoumal

Dramaturgy: Hana Stibralová

Assistants: The collective of Jiří Trnka Studio

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Editing: Jan Sládek

Production: Bedřich Strnad

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio and Megatrend

1990

 #032

Sekačka 

English title: The Lawnmover

Story, Design and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Marek Beneš

Music: Petr Skoumal

Dramaturgy: Hana Stibralová

Assistants: The collective of Jiří Trnka Studio

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Editing: Jan Sládek

Production: Bedřich Strnad

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio and Megatrend

 #033

Generální úklid 

English title: General Cleaning

Story, Design and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek Animation: Xenie Vavrečková

Music: Petr Skoumal

Dramaturgy: Hana Stibralová

Assistants: The collective of Jiří Trnka Studio

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Editing: Jan Sládek

Production: Bedřich Strnad

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio and Megatrend

 #034

Střecha 

English title: The Roof

Story, Design and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Animation: Marek Beneš

Music: Petr Skoumal

Dramaturgy: Hana Stibralová

Assistants: The collective of Jiří Trnka Studio

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Editing: Věra Benešová

Production: Bedřich Strnad

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio and Megatrend
NOTE: Incorrectly listed as #35. Filmový přehled issues from 1990 clearly list it as No.5 in the series, with Dveře No.6.

 #035

Dveře 

English title: The Door

Story, Design and Screenplay: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Animation: Xenie Vavrečková

Music: Petr Skoumal

Dramaturgy: Hana Stibralová

Assistants: The collective of Jiří Trnka Studio

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Editing: Věra Benešová

Production: Bedřich Strnad

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by Krátký Film Praha, Jiří Trnka Studio and Megatrend

1992

 #036

Sušenky 

English title: The Biscuits

Story, Design and Screenplay*: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Animation: František Váša

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Věra Benešová (A.F.T.S.)
Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Production: Michal Podhradský

Camera: Ivan Vít

Assistants: Jan Tippmann, Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmannová

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by aiF

Shown on ČT 5.04.1994.

*The credit shown on top is a generic Námět, scénář, výtvarníci. In this interview, Marek Beneš says: "I wrote the 14 episodes with Vladimír Jiránek. I used to write them at home and then I'd meet with
Jiránek, who would give me his thoughts. It was difficult as we met in a bar and he had hearing problems. He often made me rewrite the episodes completely. In the end, people usually didn't believe me when I mentioned I thought of the ideas for an episode, as all that was written was authors: Beneš, Jiránek." The Story and Screenplay credits should, by that claim, actually read: Marek Beneš,
Vladimír Jiránek, as they did in 1994.

 #037

Vrata 

English title: The Garage Door

Story, Design and Screenplay*: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Marek Beneš

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Věra Benešová (A.F.T.S.)
Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Production: Michal Podhradský

Camera: Ivan Vít

Assistants: Jan Tippmann, Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmannová

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by aiF

Shown on ČT 6.04.1994.

 #038

Cyklisti 

English title: The Cyclists

Story, Design and Screenplay*: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Věra Benešová (A.F.T.S.)
Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Production: Michal Podhradský

Camera: Ivan Vít

Assistants: Jan Tippmann, Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmannová

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by aiF

Shown on ČT 7.04.1994.

 #039

Dlaždice 

English title:  The Tiles

Story, Design and Screenplay*: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: František Váša

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Věra Benešová (A.F.T.S.)
Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Production: Michal Podhradský

Camera: Ivan Vít

Assistants: Jan Tippmann, Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmannová

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by aiF

Shown on ČT 8.04.1994.

 #040

Parkety 

English title: The Parquet

Story, Design and Screenplay*: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Marek Beneš, František Váša

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Věra Benešová (A.F.T.S.)
Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Production: Michal Podhradský

Camera: Ivan Vít

Assistants: Jan Tippmann, Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmannová

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by aiF

Shown on ČT 9.04.1994.

 #041

Okap 

English title: The Gutter Pipe

Story, Design and Screenplay*: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Animation: František Váša

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Věra Benešová (A.F.T.S.)
Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Production: Michal Podhradský

Camera: Ivan Vít

Assistants: Jan Tippmann, Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmannová

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by aiF

Shown on ČT 10.04.1994.

 #042

Kabriolet 

English title: The Convertible

Story, Design and Screenplay*: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

Music: Petr Skoumal

Editing: Věra Benešová (A.F.T.S.)
Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group

Production: Michal Podhradský

Camera: Ivan Vít

Assistants: Věra Tippmannová, Mirek Kuchař, Jan Bouzek, Jan Tippmann

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by aiF

Shown on ČT 11.04.1994.

1994

 #043

Nehoda  

English title: The Accident

Story and Screenplay: Vladimír Jiránek, Marek Beneš

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Editing: Věra Benešová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Design assistant: Jan Tippman

Production: Michal Podhradský

Assistants: Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmanová

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by aiF

#044

Kulečník 

English title: Billiards

Story: Mirek Kuchař

Screenplay: Vladimír Jiránek, Marek Beneš

Animation: František Váša

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Editing: Věra Benešová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design assistant: Jan Tippman

Production: Michal Podhradský

Assistants: Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmanová

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by aiF

#045

Živý plot  

English title: The Hedgerow

Story and Screenplay: Vladimír Jiránek, Marek Beneš

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Editing: Věra Benešová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design assistant: Jan Tippman

Production: Michal Podhradský

Assistants: Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmanová

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by aiF

#046

Trezor 

English title: The Safe

Story and Screenplay: Vladimír Jiránek, Marek Beneš

Animation: František Váša

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Editing: Věra Benešová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design assistant: Jan Tippman

Production: Michal Podhradský

Assistants: Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmanová

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by aiF

#047

Blatník 

English title: The Fender

Story and Screenplay: Vladimír Jiránek, Marek Beneš

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Editing: Věra Benešová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Design assistant: Jan Tippman

Production: Michal Podhradský

Assistants: Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmanová

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by aiF

#048

Modeláři 

English title: Model Builders

Story and Screenplay: Vladimír Jiránek, Marek Beneš

Animation: František Váša

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Editing: Věra Benešová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design assistant: Jan Tippman

Production: Michal Podhradský

Assistants: Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmanová

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by aiF

#049

Windsurfing 

Story and Screenplay: Vladimír Jiránek, Marek Beneš

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Editing: Věra Benešová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design assistant: Jan Tippman

Production: Michal Podhradský

Assistants: Jan Bouzek, Mirek Kuchař, Věra Tippmanová

Camera: Ivan Vít

Direction: Lubomír Beneš

Produced by aiF

1997

 #050

Playing Cards (no Czech title!)

  

Voices: David Nykl, Peter Alton
Sound effects: Jitka Zvirocká's group
Sound engineer: Ivo Špalj
Production: Michal Podhradský
Editing: Boris Machytka
Music: Petr Skoumal
Camera: Ivan Vít A.C.K.
Assistants: Darina Vítová, Jaroslav Bezděk, Miroslav Kuchař
Special thanks to: Barbora Dlouhá, Anna Vášová
Special guest star: Tomáš Hanák (bad Cheyen's sidekick on the TV)
Story, animation and direction: František Váša
Produced by aiF Studio, ©1997
NOTE: This episode was never officially released or distributed. More here!

Pat a Mat se vracejí 

(Pat & Mat Return)

2002

 #051

Puzzle 

Story: Marek Beneš, Karel Žalud

Screenplay: Marek Beneš

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Věra Benešová, Ondřej Zika

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Gaia Vítková

Production: Petr Vali

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 20.05.2003.

2003

 #052

Opékají špekáčky 

English title: Roasting Sausages

Story: Edgar Dutka

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Ladislav Pálka

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Ladislav Pálka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Michal Baránek, Bohuš Blecha, Petr Janotka, Silvie Pacalová, Markéta Pinkavová, Ladislav Vlk

Camera: Zdeněk Krupa

Editing: Ivan Matouš

Production: Jana Raková

Direction: Ladislav Pálka

Produced by Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 9.05.2003.

#053

Opravují střechu 

English title: Repairing the Roof

Story: Jiří Kubíček

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Ladislav Pálka

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Ladislav Pálka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Kamil Mareš, Petr Robek, Bohuš Blecha, Petr Janotka, Silvie Pacalová, Markéta Pinkavová, Ladislav Vlk

Camera: Zdeněk Krupa

Editing: Ivan Matouš

Production: Jana Raková

Direction: Ladislav Pálka

Produced by Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 10.05.2003.

#054

Černá bedýnka 

English title: The Black Box

Story: Jiří Kubíček

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: David Fílcik

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Scenery and Props: David Filcík, Jan Müller, Eva Frázová, Petr Janotka

Camera: Jan Müller

Editing: Marie Zemanová

Production: Jana Raková, Milan Halousek

Direction: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Produced by Anima s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 11.05.2003.

#055 

Kolečka 

English title: The Wheels

Story: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: David Fílcik, Pavel Rak

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Scenery and Props: David Filcík, Jan Müller, Eva Frázová

Camera: Jan Müller

Editing: Marie Zemanová

Production: Jana Raková, Milan Halousek

Direction: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Produced by Anima s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 12.05.2003.

#056

Psí bouda 

English title: The Dog House

Story: Karel Žalud

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Milan Šebesta

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Milan Šebesta, Cyril Podolský

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Bohuš Blecha, Petr Janotka, Silvie Pacalová, Markéta Pinkavová, Ladislav Vlk, Kamil Mareš, Michal Baránek

Camera: Vladimír Kolář

Editing: Ivan Matouš

Production: Jana Raková

Direction: Milan Šebesta

Produced by Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 13.05.2003.

#057

Natírají podlahu  

English title: Lacquering the Floor

Story: Břetislav Pojar

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Ladislav Pálka

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Animation: Ladislav Pálka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Bohuš Blecha, Petr Janotka, Silvie Pacalová, Markéta Pinkavová, Ladislav Vlk, Kamil Mareš, Michal Baránek

Camera: Vladimír Kolář

Editing: Ivan Matouš

Production: Jana Raková

Direction: Ladislav Pálka

Produced by Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 14.05.2003.

#058

Skleník 

English title: The Greenhouse

Story: Jiří Kubíček

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Bedřich Glaser

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Ondřej Zika, Věra Benešová

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Gaia Vítková

Production: Petr Vali, Jana Raková

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 15.05.2003.

#059

Houpačka 

English title: The Swing

Story: Marek Beneš

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Bedřich Glaser

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Ondřej Zika, Věra Benešová

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Gaia Vítková

Production: Petr Vali, Jana Raková

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 16.05.2003.

#060

Nezvaný návštěvník 

English title: The Unwanted Guest

Story: Marek Beneš

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Bedřich Glaser

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Ondřej Zika, Věra Benešová

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Gaia Vítková

Production: Petr Vali, Jana Raková

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 17.05.2003.

#061

Bodygárdi   

English title: The Bodyguards

Story: Marek Beneš

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly (credited as Mensdorf)

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Ondřej Zika, Věra Benešová

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Gaia Vítková

Production: Petr Vali, Jana Raková

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 18.05.2003.

#062

Natírají okna 

English title: Painting Windows

Story: Marek Beneš, Jan Chvojka

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Bedřich Glaser

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Ondřej Zika, Věra Benešová

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Gaia Vítková

Production: Petr Vali, Jana Raková

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 19.05.2003.

#063

Velikonoční vajíčko 

English title: The Easter Egg

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Karel Žalud

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Animation: David Fílcik

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Vladimír Jiránek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Scenery and Props: David Filcík, Jan Müller, Eva Frázová

Camera: Jan Müller

Editing: Marie Zemanová

Production: Jana Raková, Milan Halousek

Direction: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Produced by Anima s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 31.08.2004.

#064

Štíhlá linie 

English title: The Slim Figure

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Animation: David Fílcik

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Vladimír Jiránek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Scenery and Props: David Filcík, Jan Müller, Eva Frázová

Camera: Jan Müller

Editing: Marie Zemanová

Production: Jana Raková, Milan Halousek

Direction: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Produced by Anima s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 1.09.2004.

#065

Automat 

English title: The Vending Machine

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Jan Chvojka

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Jan Smrčka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Gaia Vítková

Production: Zdeňka Čermáková

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 2.09.2004.

#066

Autodráha 

English title: The Autodrome

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Marek Beneš, Jan Chvojka

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Jan Smrčka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Gaia Vítková

Production: Zdeňka Čermáková

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 3.09.2004.

#067

Akvárium 

English title: The Aquarium

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Karel Žalud

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Jan Smrčka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Gaia Vítková

Production: Zdeňka Čermáková

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 4.09.2004.

#068

Zavařují 

English title: Canning

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Ladislav Pálka

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Ladislav Pálka

Animation: Ladislav Pálka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Vladimír Jiránek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Michal Baránek, Bohuš Blecha, Petr Janotka, Silvie Pacalová, Radek Pluhař

Camera: Zdeněk Krupa

Editing: Ivan Matouš

Production: Jana Raková

Direction: Ladislav Pálka

Produced by Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 5.09.2004.

#069

Rogalo 

English title: The Hang Glider

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Ladislav Pálka

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Ladislav Pálka

Animation: Ladislav Pálka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Vladimír Jiránek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Michal Baránek, Bohuš Blecha, Petr Janotka, Silvie Pacalová

Camera: Zdeněk Krupa

Editing: Ivan Matouš

Production: Jana Raková

Direction: Ladislav Pálka

Produced by Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 13.03.2005.

#070

Vánočka 

English title: The Christmas Cake

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Milan Šebesta

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Milan Šebesta

Animation: Cyril Podolský

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Vladimír Jiránek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Kamil Mareš, Bohuš Blecha, Petr Janotka, Silvie Pacalová, Radek Pluhař

Camera: Zdeněk Krupa

Editing: Ivan Matouš

Production: Jana Raková

Direction: Milan Šebesta

Produced by Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 14.03.2005.

#071

Stůňou 

English title: The Flu

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Ladislav Pálka

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Ladislav Pálka

Animation: Ladislav Pálka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Vladimír Jiránek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Michal Baránek, Bohuš Blecha, Petr Janotka, Silvie Pacalová

Camera: Zdeněk Krupa

Editing: Ivan Matouš

Production: Jana Raková

Direction: Ladislav Pálka

Produced by Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 15.03.2005.

#072

Fax

English title: The Fax Machine

 

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Pavel Marek

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Josef Lamka

Animation: David Fílcik, Pavel Rak

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Vladimír Jiránek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Scenery and Props: David Filcík, Jan Müller, Eva Frázová

Camera: Jan Müller

Editing: Marie Zemanová

Production: Jana Raková, Milan Halousek

Direction: Josef Lamka

Produced by Anima s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 16.03.2005.

#073

Jahody 

English title: The Strawberries

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Pavel Marek

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Animation: David Fílcik

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Vladimír Jiránek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Scenery and Props: David Filcík, Jan Müller, Eva Frázová

Camera: Jan Müller

Editing: Marie Zemanová

Production: Jana Raková, Milan Halousek

Direction: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Produced by Anima s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 17.03.2005.

2004

 #074

Hrají golf 

English title: Playing Golf

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Ladislav Pálka

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Ladislav Pálka

Animation: Ladislav Pálka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Vladimír Jiránek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Assistants: Michal Baránek, Bohuš Blecha, Petr Janotka, Silvie Pacalová, Michal Pančoška

Camera: Zdeněk Krupa

Editing: Ivan Matouš

Production: Jana Raková

Direction: Ladislav Pálka

Produced by Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 18.03.2005.

#075

Někam to zapadlo 

English title: Somewhere It Fell

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: David Fílcik (credited as Roman Fílcik on Polish titles)

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Animation: David Fílcik

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Vladimír Jiránek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Scenery and Props: David Filcík, Jan Müller, Eva Frázová, Petr Janotka

Camera: Jan Müller

Editing: Marie Zemanová

Production: Jana Raková, Milan Halousek

Direction: Vlasta Pospíšilová

Produced by Anima s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 19.03.2005.

#076

Kopají bazén 

English title: Digging the Swimming Pool

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Jiří Kubíček

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Jan Smrčka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Gaia Vítková

Production: Zdeňka Čermáková

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 20.03.2005.

#077

Věší krajinu 

English title: Hanging the Landscape

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Jiří Kubíček, Marek Beneš

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Jan Smrčka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Gaia Vítková

Production: Zdeňka Čermáková

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 21.03.2005.

#078

Vánoční stromeček 

English title: The Christmas Tree

Production (ABZ): Katarína Morvai

Story: Marek Beneš

Dramaturgy: Jiří Kubíček

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Jan Smrčka

Music: Petr Skoumal

Design idea: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Sound: Robert Slezák, Ladislav Procházka

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Gaia Vítková

Production: Zdeňka Čermáková

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat s.r.o. for Ateliéry Bonton Zlín, a.s.

Premiered on ČT 22.03.2005.

Pat a Mat na venkově 

(Pat & Mat in the Country)

2009

#079

Postele

English title: The Beds

Story and Screenplay: Marek Beneš

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Animation: Bedřich Glaser

Editing: Pavel Lopolo Jirák

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Ondřej Zika, Vendula Pluhařová

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat film s.r.o.
premiered on the 50th Zlín Film Festival in 2010

2011

NOTE: The following credits apply to episodes #080-086. See more on the ordering here.

Story and Screenplay: Marek Beneš

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Animation: Jan Smrčka

Editing: Lucie Haladová

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Ondřej Zika, Vendula Pluhařová

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat film s.r.o.


#080

Vodovod

English title: Water Pipes

see credits above

#081

Papírový servis

English title: Paper Plates
see credits above

#082
Promítačka
English title: The Projector

see credits above

2012

#083
Vysavač
English title: The Hoover

see credits above

#084
Bazén
English title: The Pool

see credits above

#085
Podlaha
English title: The Floor

see credits above

2013

#086
Suchý strom
English title: The Dry Tree
see credits above

2014

#087
Pomerančová šťáva
English title: Orange Juice

Story and Screenplay: Marek Beneš

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Animation: Jan Smrčka

Editing: Lucie Haladová

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Ondřej Zika, Vendula Pluhařová, Lubomír Beneš Jr.

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat film s.r.o. 

#088
Rotoped
English title: The Exercise Bike

Story and Screenplay: Marek Beneš

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Animation: Jan Smrčka

Editing: Lucie Haladová

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Ondřej Zika, Vendula Pluhařová, Lubomír Beneš Jr.

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat film s.r.o.

2015

#089

Kaktus
English title: The Cactus

Story and Screenplay: Marek Beneš

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Animation: Jan Smrčka

Editing: Tomáš Píšek

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Ondřej Zika, Vendula Pluhařová, Lubomír Beneš Jr.

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat film s.r.o. 

#090

Obkladačky
English title: The Tiles

Story and Screenplay: Marek Beneš

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects:  Zdeněk Dušek, Andrea Veselková

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Animation: Jan Smrčka

Editing: Tomáš Píšek

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Ondřej Zika, Vendula Pluhařová, Lubomír Beneš Jr.

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat film s.r.o.

#091

Sluneční clona
English title: The Sun Shield

Story and Screenplay: Marek Beneš

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek 

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Music: Petr Skoumal

Sound: Ivo Špalj

Sound Effects:  Zdeněk Dušek, Andrea Veselková

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Animation: Jan Smrčka

Editing: Tomáš Píšek

Assistants: Jaroslav Bezděk, Ondřej Zika, Vendula Pluhařová, Lubomír Beneš Jr.

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat film s.r.o. 

Pat a Mat nás baví 

(Pat & Mat Entertain Us)

2018

Several episodes produced in 2018 were outsourced to Steamworks Studio in China. For that reason, the animation and "props and scenery" credits are the same on every episode, even though some episodes were animated solely in Prague. Martin Kublák, who worked for aiF in 1997, is the only name which appears sporadically in animation credits and my episode order is based on him being credited or not. He seems to have left the studio before completing work on the episode Plot. As the other credits are also more or less the same, here is a view of the credits which are identical in every episode, with specific credits for each episode (mostly concerning the stories) listed separately. The animation credits, which are not official, but are my own notes are listed in Italic. More about the animator credits here.

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková

Dramaturgy for ČT: Kateřina Krejčí

Music: Zdeněk Zdeněk

Animation: Jan Smrčka, Martin Kublák (only on #092-098), Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Wang Peipei, Xiang Weiwei, Li Xiangyuan, Yu Huagong, Xiao Xieliang

Video post-production: Petr Miškovský

Assistants: Ondřej Zika, Václava Pluhařová, David Zámečník, Lubomír Beneš Jr.

Sound production: Petra Bičíková

Sound effects: Andrea Veselková, Marika Novotná

Sound mixing: Karel Štulo

Props and scenery: František Douda, Wang Xiyi, Wu You, Zhao Mengting

Assistant Directors: Jan Chvojka, Jaroslav Baran

Head of ČT production: Patrik Stanko

Editing: Marek Beneš (except for #104)

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Producer: Tomáš Eiselt

Executive producer for ČT: Veronika Trčková

Creative producer for ČT: Barbara Johnsonová

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat film s.r.o. in co-production with JUST Productions, B.V. and Česká televize

#092

Včely

English title: Bees 

Story: Jan Chvojka

Script: Marek Beneš
Animation: Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of 2018 section

#093 

Sekačka (2) 

English title: The (Solar) Lawnmover

Story: Jan Chvojka

Script: Marek Beneš

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of 2018 section

#094 

Krtek

English title: The Mole

Story: Marek Beneš

Script: Marek Beneš

Animation: Jan Smrčka, Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of 2018 section

#095 

Plot 

English title: The Fence 

Story: Jan Chvojka

Script: Marek Beneš

Animation: Martin Kublák, Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Jan Smrčka

for further credits see top of 2018 section

#096

Ucpaný komín 

English title: Clogged Chimney 

Story: Tomáš Hartman

Script: Marek Beneš

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of 2018 section

#097 

Elektrárna

English title: The Power Station 

Story: Tomáš Hartman

Script: Marek Beneš
Animation: Steamworks Studio
for further credits see top of 2018 section

#098 

Skalka

English title: The Rock Garden 

Story: Marek Beneš

Script: Marek Beneš

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

for further credits see top of 2018 section

#099 

Rodeo

Story: Štefan Martauz

Script: Marek Beneš
Animation: Steamworks Studio, Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly
for further credits see top of 2018 section

#100 

Kolotoč 

English title: The Carousel 

Story: Jan Chvojka

Script: Marek Beneš

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of 2018 section

#101 

Myčka 

English title: The Dishwasher

Story: Marek Beneš

Script: Marek Beneš

Animation: Jan Smrčka

for further credits see top of 2018 section

#102 

Odpad 

English title: The Waste

Story: Jan Chvojka, Marek Beneš

Script: Marek Beneš

Animation: Steamworks Studio, Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

for further credits see top of 2018 section

#103 

Schody 

English title: The Stairs 

Story: Marek Beneš

Script: Marek Beneš

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of 2018 section

#104 

Kamera 

English title: The Cameras 

Story: Jan Chvojka, Marek Beneš, Jana Kubičková

Script: Marek Beneš

Editing: Martin Petro

Animation: Steamworks Studio, Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

for further credits see top of 2018 section

Pat & Mat ve zimě 

(Pat & Mat in the Winter)

As with the previous series, several episodes produced for the series taking place in the winter were outsourced to Steamworks Studio from China. For that reason, the animation and "props and scenery" credits are the same on every episode, even though some episodes were animated solely in Prague. As the other credits are also more or less the same, here is a view of the credits which are identical in every episode, with specific credits for each episode (mostly concerning the stories) listed separately. The animation credits, which are not official, but are my own notes are listed in Italic. More about the animator credits here.

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková (except for #107)

Dramaturgy for ČT: Kateřina Krejčí

Music: Zdeněk Zdeněk

Animation: Jan Smrčka, Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Wang Peipei, Xiang Weiwei, Li Xiangyuan, Yu Huagong, Xiao Xieliang

Video post-production: Petr Miškovský

Assistants: Ondřej Zika, Václava Pluhařová, David Zámečník, Lubomír Beneš Jr.

Sound production: Petra Bičíková

Sound effects: Andrea Veselková, Marika Novotná

Sound mixing: Karel Štulo

Props and scenery: František Douda, Wang Xiyi, Wu You, Zhao Mengting

Head of ČT production: Patrik Stanko

Editing: Marek Beneš (#105-112)

Design realization: Jan Bouzek

Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek

Camera: Jan Chvojka

Producer: Tomáš Eiselt

Executive producer for ČT: Veronika Trčková

Creative producer for ČT: Barbara Johnsonová

Direction: Marek Beneš

Produced by Patmat film s.r.o. in co-production with JUST Productions, B.V. and Česká televize

2018

#105

Kalamita

English title: Calamity

Story: Štěpán Gajdoš

Script: Štěpán Gajdoš

Assistant director: Jan Chvojka

Storyboard: Tomáš Vlasák

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of this section

#106

Vánoční světýlka

English title: Christmas Lights

Story: Štěpán Gajdoš

Script: Štěpán Gajdoš

Assistant directors: Jan Chvojka, Jaroslav Baran

Storyboard: Jaroslav Baran

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of this section

#107

Sauna

Story: Jana Kubičková

Script: Marek Beneš

Dramaturgy: Jan Chvojka

Assistant director: Jan Chvojka

Storyboard: Jan Chvojka

Animation: Jan Smrčka, Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

for further credits see top of this section

#108

Betlém

English title: The Nativity Scene

Story: Adam Mensdorff-Pouilly

Script: Marek Beneš

Assistant director: Jan Chvojka

Storyboard: Jan Chvojka

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Jan Smrčka

for further credits see top of this section

#109

Stromeček

English title: The Christmas Tree (2)

Story: Jana Kubičková

Script: Štěpán Gajdoš

Assistant directors: Jan Chvojka, Jaroslav Baran

Storyboard: Jan Chvojka, Tomáš Vlasák

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of this section

#110

Dárky

English title: The Gifts

Story: Štěpán Gajdoš

Script: Jaroslav Baran

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková

Assistant directors: Jan Chvojka, Jaroslav Baran

Storyboard: Jaroslav Baran

Animation: Steamworks Studio, Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

for further credits see top of this section

#111

Silvestr

English title: New Year's Eve

Story: Štěpán Gajdoš

Script: Štěpán Gajdoš

Assistant director: Jan Chvojka

Storyboard: Tomáš Vlasák

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of this section

 

2019

#112

Novoroční přání

English title: New Year Greetings

 

Story: Jana Kubičková

Script: Štěpán Gajdoš

Assistant directors: Jan Chvojka, Jaroslav Baran

Storyboard: Jaroslav Baran

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of this section

#113

Bramborový salát

English title: The Potato Salad

 

Story: Jana Kubičková

Script: Jan Chvojka

Assistant directors: Jan Chvojka, Jaroslav Baran

Editing: Martin Štěpánek

Storyboard: Tomáš Vlasák

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of this section

#114

Kapr

English title: The Carp

 

Story: Štěpán Gajdoš

Script: Štěpán Gajdoš

Assistant directors: Jan Chvojka, Jaroslav Baran

Editing: Jan Chvojka

Storyboard: Tomáš Vlasák

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of this section

#115

Perníková chaloupka

English title: The Gingerbread House

 

Story: Marek Beneš

Script: Marek Beneš

Assistant directors: Jan Chvojka, Jaroslav Baran

Editing: Marek Beneš

Storyboard: Jaroslav Baran

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for further credits see top of this section

#116

Ledovka

English title: The Glaze

 

Story: Jana Kubičková

Script: Jaroslav Baran

Assistant directors: Jan Chvojka, Jaroslav Baran

Editing: Martin Štěpánek

Storyboard: Jaroslav Baran
Animation: Steamworks Studio
for further credits see top of this section

#117

Iglú

English title: The Igloo

 

Story: Marek Beneš, Ladislav Pálka

Script: Marek Beneš

Assistant directors: Jan Chvojka, Jaroslav Baran

Editing: Martin Štěpánek

Storyboard: Jan Chvojka

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Jan Smrčka

for further credits see top of this section

Pat a Mat kutí 

(Pat and Mat Adventures)

As with the previous series, several episodes from the series were outsourced to Steamworks Studio from China. For presumably contractual reasons, the animation and "props and scenery" credits are the same on every episode, even though some episodes were solely animated in Prague. As the other credits also differ mostly in the script and story credits, here is a view of the credits which are identical in every episode, with specific credits for each episode listed separately. More about my ordering of the episodes in this post. The animation credits, which are not official, but are my own notes are listed in Italic. More about the animator credits here.


Dramaturgy for ČT: Kateřina Krejčí
Music: Zdeněk Zdeněk
Animation: Jan Smrčka, Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Wang Peipei, Xiang Weiwei, Li Xiangyuan, Yu Huagong, Xiao Xieliang
Video post-production: Petr Miškovský
Assistants: Ondřej Zika, Václava Pluhařová, David Zámečník, Lubomír Beneš Jr.
Sound production: Petra Bičíková
Sound effects: Andrea Veselková, Marika Novotná
Sound mixing: Karel Štulo
Props and scenery: František Douda, Wang Xiyi, Wu You, Zhao Mengting

Assistant direction: Jan Chvojka
Head of ČT production: Patrik Stanko
Design realization: Jan Bouzek
Design: Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek
Camera: Jan Chvojka
Producer: Tomáš Eiselt
Executive producer for ČT: Veronika Trčková
Creative producer for ČT: Barbara Johnsonová
Direction: Marek Beneš
Produced by Patmat film s.r.o. in co-production with JUST Productions, B.V. and Česká televize

2019

#118

Palačinky

English title: Pancakes

Story: Tereza Benešová

Script: Marek Beneš

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková

Editing: Marek Beneš

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Jan Smrčka

for more credits see top of this section

#119

Létající stroj

English title: Flying Machine

Story: Marek Beneš

Script: Marek Beneš

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková

Editing: Marek Beneš

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Jan Smrčka

for more credits see top of this section

#120

Popcorn

Story: Štěpán Gajdoš

Script: Štěpán Gajdoš

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková

Editing: Jan Chvojka

Storyboard: Jaroslav Baran

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for more credits see top of this section

#121

Nábytek (2)

English title: Furniture (2)

Story: Štěpán Gajdoš

Script: Štěpán Gajdoš

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková

Editing: Martin Štěpánek

Storyboard: Jaroslav Baran

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for more credits see top of this section

#122

Automyčka

English title: The Car Wash

Story: Kees Prins

Script: Marek Beneš

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková

Editing: Marek Beneš

Storyboard: Jan Chvojka

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

for more credits see top of this section

#123

Sklizeň

English title: The Harvest

Story: Jana Kubičková

Script: Jan Chvojka

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková

Editing: Jan Chvojka

Storyboard: Tomáš Vlasák

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for more credits see top of this section

#124

Fotopast

English title: The Phototrap

Story: Jan Chvojka

Script: Jan Chvojka

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková

Editing: Jan Chvojka

Storyboard: Tomáš Vlasák

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for more credits see top of this section

2020

#125
Barbecue

Story: Jana Kubičková

Script: Štěpán Gajdoš

Dramaturgy: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Jan Chvojka

Storyboard: Jaroslav Baran

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for more credits see top of this section

#126

Potrubní pošta

English title: Tube Post

Story: Marek Beneš

Script: Marek Beneš

Dramaturgy: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Marek Beneš

Storyboard: Jaroslav Baran

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, Jan Smrčka

for more credits see top of this section

#127

Výroba ledu

English title: Ice Making

Story: Štěpán Gajdoš

Script: Jaroslav Baran

Dramaturgy: Jan Chvojka

Editing: Jan Chvojka

Storyboard: Jaroslav Baran

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for more credits see top of this section

#128

Pizza

Story: Tereza Benešová

Script: Marek Beneš

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková

Editing: Marek Beneš

Storyboard: Marek Beneš

Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

for more credits see top of this section

#129

Chleba

English title: The Bread

Story: Jana Kubičková

Script: Jan Chvojka

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková

Editing: Jan Chvojka

Storyboard: Jaroslav Baran

Animation: Steamworks Studio

for more credits see top of this section

#130

Garážová vrata

English title: The Garage Door (2)

Story: Jan Chvojka

Script: Jan Chvojka

Dramaturgy: Jana Kubičková

Editing: Jan Chvojka

Storyboard: Jaroslav Baran

Animation: Jan Smrčka

for more credits see top of this section

... that does it!