Soviet hand-drawn 2D animation still from the late 1970s, painterly gouache and watercolor backgrounds on textured paper, soft edges, almost no black outlines, muted palette of ochre, umber, grey-blue and warm white, gentle film grain, flat lighting with soft atmospheric haze, characters drawn simply with expressive silhouettes, no 3D rendering, no glossy surfaces. An elderly man with a full grey beard in a dark formal coat walks alone through a grand columned hall of a 19th-century academy of sciences, tall windows, pale morning light on the floor, portraits on the walls. Wide shot from behind and slightly to the side, vertical 9:16, no text.
