O parádivé Sally (About Dressy Sally) is a short animated film that was produced in Communist era Czechoslovakia in 1976. An English dub was made in the U.S. two years later.
It allegedly aired as one of the animated inserts on Pinwheel, a puppet-driven show on Nickelodeon in the 1980s, under the name Sally.
For a long time, the short’s existence was a mystery, and was colloquially referred to as “Clock Man”/”Clockman”.
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In 1976, AAA studio (or Art And Animation studio) produced an animated short for Krátký film. This short, titled O parádivé Sally was based upon the Jan Vladislav story of the same name. It was seen in his 1971 book, O kočičím králi a devět dalších hrůzostrašných pohádek.[1] Jan Vladislav’s version was heavily influenced by an old English folktale, titled “The Old Man at the White House”, which was first featured in a book published in 1897.[2]
The animation was photographed by Jasoň Šilhan and directed by female director Dagmar Doubkova.[3] It was exported around the world, yet none of the creators knew exactly where their films would end up, due to Czechoslovakia being a Communist nation at the time. The film received an honourable mention at the Gottwaldov Film Festival in 1977.[4]
It was then picked up by The Learning Corporation of America (or LCA for short) who dubbed it into English and retitled it Sally, for educational use in 1978. The English narration was credited to Pearl Peterson.[5] It is speculated that it ended up on Pinwheel after being picked up by Coe Films, who then licensed the short to them.
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