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Pat & Mat
Pat a Mat
1979 · TV series · 8 min episodes · 8 seasons
Created by Lubomír Beneš, Vladimír Jiránek
Pat & Mat is a Czech stop-motion animated series featuring two handymen, Pat and Mat. It was created by Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek.
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Czechoslovakian animation was indeed famous abroad even though communist regime regulate everything they could. Good to mention:
- Krtek (Little mole) by Z. Miler - its never dying cartoon that basically every kids since 1y still watching in Czechia https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ZKvF049Iku9y41WpIUUCA
- animated feature films by Karel Zeman (I was a student at school that is located in ateliers where he was making his films) https://youtu.be/fP7T9J6AiHM
- Broučci by J. Trnka https://youtu.be/8Apo0tj5Rso
- Bob a Bobek (one of director was my teacher at high school) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhvvA2ar-wN0PRnQVxaEsre4J8StDLF
- Pat a Mat (one of animator was my teacher as well) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhvvA2ar-w9QewRWADbr6DW2h_01fA6
- surrealist animation films by J. Švankmajer https://youtu.be/tK_l74cSPGY
- many more
distraction as a form of creativeness.. very interesting.
almost off-topic - re: Bouvard and Pécuchet - i wonder, how much films like Pat & Mat [1] are influenced by this book..
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_%26_Mat
> "Pat & Mat" is silent-duo home-improvement slapstic comedy that we kinda like :)
Did you know that Pat and Mat became a very popular export product of the Czech Republic? You might be surprised to learn that most Dutchmen know who Pat and Mat are (though not their names).
Something odd happened when it got imported into the Netherlands in the eighties: a soundtrack with spoken voices was added, and it gradually became a cult hit. Blasphemous as this may sound, the dialogue is as silly as the episodes themselves, and actually works.
The popularity of the show in the Netherlands actually helped create the demand for the new episodes made in this century.
Have a look at 'Buurman en Buurman' (neighbour and neighbour) on Youtube to see the Dutch rendition of Pat and Mat.