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Springman and the SS (Czech: Pérák a SS) is a 1946 Czechoslovak animated short film directed by Jiří Brdečka and Jiří Trnka featuring Pérák, the Spring Man of Prague. The film is also known as The Chimney Sweep in the United States.

Plot
A chimney sweep disguises as a Spring-heeled Jack-like figure during the Nazi occupation. The heroic and mischievous black-clad "Springer," with a mask fashioned out of a sock and defying the curfew, is capable of performing fantastic leaps due to having couch springs attached to his shoes. He taunts the occupying German army sentries and the Gestapo before escaping in a surrealistic, slapstick chase across the darkened city.

Credits

 * A Republic Release
 * Stanley Carls presents
 * The Spring-man and the SS
 * Copyright MCMXLVI Stanley Carls Productions, Inc.
 * All Rights Reserved
 * Story: Ota Šafránek
 * Screenplay: Jiří Trnka, Jiří Brdečka
 * Music: Jan Rychlík
 * Played by: the Film Symphony Orchestra
 * Conducted by: Milivoj Uzelac
 * Sound effects: AR Studio, Lucerna, Prague
 * Made under the artistic management of: Jiří Trnka
 * Head of Production: Jaroslav Jílovec
 * Animation: Čeněk Duba, Josef Kábrt, Miloslav Krejčí, Stanislav Látal, Karel Mann, Jan Műller, Bohuslav Šrámek, Karel Štrébl, Zdeněk Miler
 * Made with the collaboration: Zbyněk Bláha, Blahout, Rudolf Holan, Vojen Masník, Jaroslav Možíš, Bořivoj Novák, and a hundred others
 * During the German occupation tales were told of a mysterious man who jumped about on springs and brought terror to the occupants with his jumps and springs. Our film is dedicated to this good ghost.
 * THE END
 * A Stanley Carls Production
 * Made in Hollywood, U.S.A. and Czechoslovakia

Soundtrack

 * Sung by bird - "Yankee Doodle"

Cultural impact
Trnka's postwar interpretation of Pérák as a quasi-superhero formed the basis for sporadic revivals of the character in Czech science fiction and comic book stories.

DVD releases
Pérák a SS is featured in a DVD anthology of World War II propaganda cartoons, Cartoons for Victory, which was released on May 2, 2006.