 ", a popular Russian nightly show for young children to watch before they go to bed (his segment was taken off the air in the summer of 2001; the show moved to another channel while the copyright for the sequence stayed with the old one).He also spent nine months working on a 2-minute sequence for the Japanese collaborative film "Winter Days" (released in 2003).Norstein said that this sequence required as much work as a 10-minute film, and that his work on it influenced "The Overcoat" and vice versa (the sequence contains a scene with Bashō searching for ticks in his cloak which is similar to a scene in "The Overcoat").