Résumé: Nudnik is the well-intentioned, kind, cheerful but bumbling soul, inspired by such archetypal characters as Charlie Chaplin's Champ and Schulz's Charlie Brown. He never gets a break, can't do anything right, but somehow muddles through dignity more or less intact. Inspired by a real-life incident - getting his tie caught in a moving Moviola editing machine - Gene Deitch, cartoonist, animator and all round renaissance man, created Nudnik. The star of 12 Paramount animation shorts, Nudnik was one of Deitch's most creatively personal and successful creations.