Reporter from Overseas

Reporter from Overseas (1961) is a short Soviet animated satire you can watch online on iFILM. Sixteen minutes, directed by Grigory Lomidze, a hand-drawn jab at the Western press straight out of the Cold War.

A green reporter named Bob Sketch is hired by the Strykoroba Corporation to cover Moscow. Short on experience and long on imagination, he files sensational, wildly inaccurate stories that drag him through one mishap after another — and earn him a dressing-down from the boss back home. The voice cast is a roll call of Soviet comic talent: Georgy Vitsin, Anatoly Kubatsky, Pavel Pankov and Oleg Anofriev. The fun here is double: the gags themselves, and watching how Soviet animation pictured an "overseas" newsman. Stream Reporter from Overseas (1961) online on iFILM.