Uiser:Ziranet/Pat & Mat

Pat & Mat wis a Czechoslovakian bairns' e'enin cartoon aboot twa haiverin, fouterin bidies tryin tae be naebbut hamelt haunymen. Lubomír Beneš an Vladimír Jiránek fair wrocht it up. Thair first fillum “The Tinkers” wis filmit doon at Jiří Trnka’s Bothy. Syne, 28 episodes wrocht oot – cried "An Braw! It’s duin!" – wi CS Telly Bratislava. Six mair fillums eftir, bapteest Pat & Mat, got papped oot streek fae Shairt Films Prague.

Ziranet/Pat & Mat
Pat an Mat logo (in VAG Rounded)
Genre	Animation Guffie (Comedy) Skelp-guffie
Creautit bi	Lubomír Beneš Vladimír Jiránek
Written bi	Lubomír Beneš Vladimír Jiránek Jiří Kubíček Vendulka Čvančarová Marek Beneš ithers
Directit bi	Lubomír Beneš Marek Beneš ither heid-bummers
Theme muisic componer	Petr Skoumal
Componer(s)	Petr Skoumal (ep. 2–91) Zdeněk Zdeněk (ep. 92–130) Luboš Fišer (ep. 1)
Kintra o oreegin	Czechoslovakie (episodes 1–35) Czech Republic Slovakia (ainly episodes 2–29) Germany (ainly episodes 30–35) Netherlands (episodes 92–130) China (episodes 92–130)
Oreeginal leid(s)	Nane Ollanders' gab (dub)
No. o episodes	129 (+1 unkytled)
Production
Lenth	6–9 min.
Production company(s)	Krátký film Praha aiF Studio Patmat film Ateliéry Bonton Zlín ither howfs
Release
Oreeginal release	12 August 1976 (1976-08-12) – Julie 2020 (2020-07)

Come 1990, the heid-bummers biggit thair ain howf, AIF Studio, in Smíchov (wi a furrin airt in Zurich), whaur they wrocht oot 14 mair tales. Marek Beneš (Lubomír’s lad) taen up the tang at Studio Patmat, haudin’ tae his auld man an Jiránek’s trade. Wi 130 episodes hingin on the string, it’s the muckle-maist, langest-rinnin bairns' e'enin cartoon i the televisual kist, an naethin comes nigh it fur episodes starrin the same twa glaikit, weel-hained loons!

Historie

The twa kytlers first kytlt up in a shairt fillum fae 1976, cried Kuťáci (The Tinkers). Syne, mair episodes wis wrocht as pairts o saison 2: ... a je to! (... An Braw! It's duin!), whaur the chiels gat thair final fettle. The twa kytlers gat thair names Pat an Mat in 1989, an fae than on, that wis the name o the pictur-show.

The scrievers had grown-fowk in mind when they wrocht up the series, but it sune becam a fawvourite amang aw ages. In auld Czechoslovakie, the first 35 episodes o the series wis wrocht in bairn-frienly shairt bits o 7 meenits.

The series becam weel-kent in mony kintras, an wis shawn in amang ithers Czechoslovakie (noo Czech Republic an Slovakia), Swaden, Poland, Yugoslavie, Iceland, Germany, Swisserland, Brazil, Finland, Netherlands, Croatia, Norawa, Spain an Iran.

In 1990, Lubomír Beneš (dee'd 1995) stertit his ain aiF Studio in Prague (wrocht) an Zurich (sellin, siller), whaur he an his team wrocht oot 14 new episodes. They pappit aw 49 episodes on the warld market.

Eftir, Lubomír Beneš' son, Marek Beneš, teuk ower an has wrocht mair episodes o the series. In 2019, thare wis 117 episodes in aw, an mony o them cam oot on DVD anaw.

Teepical Elements o the Series

In the series, some elements aye come back that thegither mak the style o the haill series.

Teepical Haun-shakkin

When Pat an Mat win success, they shak hauns an than at the same time mak a sharp gesture wi thair elbae bent at a richt angle. This thair hail is a teepical gesture o the series.

Surprisin Turn for the Waur Insted o a Guid End

At the meenit, when efter lang tryin bad weys, aw is weel sorted in a gey oreeginal an maistly nae-effeckive wey, an the viewer naiturally expecs a happy end, than a sudden turn for the waur comes.

Blythe Approach tae Mishanters

Pat an Mat, even in the maist desperate oors o the biggest catastrophes, aye, tho aften hamelt an nae-effeckive, try tae sort the situation. They react tae nae maitter hoo waur a situation wi nae anger nor sadness. Thair maist negative reaction is siclike thochtfu ponderin, or tappin thair heid, but even that is aften mair a gesture o a new notion.

Ettle tae Sort Things Maks Them Waur

The muckle pairt o Pat an Mat's ettles, hoo tae sort some mishanter, leads tae its waukenin.

Close-up o Onessential Happnin + Surprise When the View Widens

It's a aften repeated principle o the shot, that is ower detailed for us tae ken whit's exactly gaun on. The wee chiels either juist flit by the shot, or we see some onessential pairt o the wark, or ane o the freens that's juist watchin, an nae the ane that's daein the wark. When the shot expands, than we see the consequence o the previous wark (aften surprising).

Niver Get Angry at Ilk Ither

The chiels aye watch ilk ither attentively durin the wark an niver express doots even at clearly wrang attempts o the ither tae solve the mishanter. When it turns oot that the situation has waukrned insteid o bein sorted, they niver get angry, juist shake thair heids, an even that seems mair like a statin o an obvious failure nor a negative judgin o the ither's ettle. But thaur are exceptions when the chiels get angry at ilk ither, for example in the episode The Hut, whaur Pat is angered at Mat efter cuttin the table (he snatches aff his bunnet an chucks it on the grund an wants tae chuck a bit o widd at him), but they sune mak it up.