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Velryba Abyrlev
14 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1977
Puppet animation
Audience: family
Commentary: off screen

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Bretislav Pojar
Designer: Miroslav Stepanek

The fifth episode of the "Garden" series based on the book of the same title by Jiri Trnka. It is a story about four schoolboys looking for a highly-educated whale that should be living in the garden. They would like to be quizzed by the whale as they will have school exams the next day. However, the whale is a book worm and they do not learn anything practical from it.

All films of the series Garden:
(About the) Thick Fog • (About) Mice In Tinfoil • Animal Lover • Elahw the Whale • How to Catch a Tiger

All films directed by Bretislav Pojar:
(About the) Thick Fog • (About) Mice In Tinfoil • And Don't Tell Me, Wendy • Animal Lover • The Apple Maiden • Billiards • The Butterflies Time • Cats' School • Elahw the Whale • The Ginger-bread House • Hello, Kohlrabi • Hold Your Hat • How the Bears Went Swimming • How They Ate The Soup Of Wit • How They Met At Kolin • How They Went to Bed • How to Catch a Tiger • If • The Lion and the Song • The Midnight Adventure • Misbehaving • On A Cat's Word • One Glass Too Many • The Opening Speech Will Be Delivered By • Painting Is For the Cats • The Panther Who Smelt Good • Princesses Are Not To Be Sniffed At • The Romance from the Darkness • Umbrella • What the Rain Worm Did Not Have Any Idea About • What Went Bang?

All films designed by Miroslav Stepanek:
(About the) Thick Fog • (About) Mice In Tinfoil • And Don't Tell Me, Wendy • Animal Lover • The Apple Maiden • Billy the Tough And His Amazingly Strong Lasso • Billy the Tough And the Cheeky Hares • Billy the Tough And the Giant Mosquitoes • Black and White • Cats' School • Elahw the Whale • Forty Grandfathers • Hello, Kohlrabi • Hold Your Hat • How the Bears Went Swimming • How They Ate The Soup Of Wit • How They Met At Kolin • How They Went to Bed • How to Catch a Tiger • Misbehaving • On A Cat's Word • Painting Is For the Cats • The Panther Who Smelt Good • Princesses Are Not To Be Sniffed At • The Revenge • The Shooting Gallery • The Sword • The Town In Black • What the Rain Worm Did Not Have Any Idea About • What Went Bang?