There was a small Sundrop that was so playful that he lost his way home. But luckily, a flock of Fireflies discovered him and volunteered to take him back to his Mother, the Sun. This film is reminiscent of the style of Ukrainian film "Water Bubble / Kapitoshka / Капітошка".

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Hochiminh City General Film Studio
The Animation Workshop

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<b>THE SUN DROP FOR THE NIGHT</b>
- Subtitles by Duy Kiền -

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Scenarists : Đỗ Trung Quân, Nguyệt Nga
Director : Hồ Đắc Vũ

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Oh, who's crying ?

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Who's crying ?

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It's me - Sun Drop !

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But why are you crying ?

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Because I don't know the way back.

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O Rosebud, wake up !

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I'm so scared, Sisters.
I don't know the way back.

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Don't be afraid, we'll take you home.
But stop crying, Little Brother !

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Brother Bat, where is the way to the Sun ?

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Looking for the Sun in the night, huh ?

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Where are you going at night, Children ?

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We are Fireflies, Uncle.
Could you show us how to go to the Sun ?

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The Sun ?
It's still far away !

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It's behind that mountain !

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Hold on, we'll take you home.

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Wake up, Children !

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The Sun has risen.

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<b>THE END</b>
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>>2
Yes, I did say that you transcribed them. But I wasn't sure who did the initial translation, as it wasn't credited. I thought maybe it was Dina herself, or else someone she knew.

When I saw story The Orphan Boy, I was surprised at its similarity to The Fairy Gourd 1. In the words of anthropologists, there was some interaction between the Mongols and the peoples of Southeast Asia, but of course it had to be through the very important catalyst of China.

Since the late 1980s, when the government eliminated subsidy plans, Vietnam Animation Studio fell into a very miserable situation and was even at risk of dissolution. However, this problem further stimulates pioneering creative ideas to help the Vietnamese animation industry approach and integrate into the world.

Also in these years, young Vietnamese audiences were quite fond of fairytale films due to receiving the long-term influence of Czechoslovak cinema, therefore, the trend of Vietnamese cinema and television began to produce films in that genre.

This film is based on a very famous folktale in Vietnam. Through the film, cinematographers want to send a message about administrative reform and even criticize seemingly trivial habits that corrupt social morality.

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<b>THE FAIRY GOURD</b>
- Subtitles by Duy Kiền -

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Once upon a time,
in a certain village,

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there was a woodcutter
who lived with his wife.

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They were poor but
their feelings were deep.

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Every day, the husband goes
to the forest to collect firewood.

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While the wife stayed home to take care
of the onion beds to sell at the market.

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One day, the husband was cutting wood.

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He saw a little blue bird which
was chased by a ferocious hawk.

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He went to save the blue bird.

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In return for saving her life,

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the blue bird gave him
a miraculous gourd seed.

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Then the woodcutter went home,

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and gave the fairy gourd seed
to his kind wife.

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The hawk was extremely angry.

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He flew to the royal palace
to plot revenge.

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When the hawk noticed that
the king was evil and lustful,

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he tried to use the king's hand
to harm that couple.

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What a miracle !

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The magic turned her
into a ravishing beauty.

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With her long hair that was
still silky and smooth like velvet.

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Even the onions in beds
became unusually big.

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While the woodcutter was still
ecstatic about his wife's beauty,

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the hawk decided to
carry out his dark plan.

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As soon as the lustful king
saw the beauty in the painting,

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he sent soldiers to take the woodcutter's wife
into the palace to be his concubine.

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Her beauty could bring down
entire countries and citadels,

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so it fascinated the king.

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However, the faithful wife
still stubbornly refused.

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The king tried every way
to seduce and threaten her,

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but her mind still turned night and day
to her beloved husband from the village.

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The woodcutter could not bear
to lose his beautiful spouse.

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He carried onions to the capital
to find any way to save her.

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Stalks as long as the poles,
Bulbs as large as lime pots.

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Whoever buys my onions,
Loves this wandering soul.

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After many hardships along his way,

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he finally reached the royal palace.

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When the wife heard her husband's
familiar voice coming from outside,

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she suddenly turned from gloomy
and melancholy to unusually cheerful.

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Stalks as long as the poles,
Bulbs as large as lime pots.

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Whoever buys my onions,
Loves this wandering soul.

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The lustful king pretended to be an onion seller
who was hoping to buy a smile from the beauty.

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He didn't expect to be punished
by the woodcutter and his wife.

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The woodcutter was honored as the king,

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and his faithful wife was also made queen.

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Under the reign of this wise emperor,

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the country became peaceful and prosperous.

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From then on, all people were
always comfortable and happy.

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<b>THE END</b>
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In the early 2000s, Vietnam Animation Studio began a very drastic generational transition to find resilience for the entire country's animation industry. The most advanced international film production methods have been imported so that the next generation has more opportunities to develop their potential. However, national identity and educational mission were still considered guiding principles in their profession. Film "The Clay Chicken" can be considered the final work of the older generation of artists who experienced the ups and downs of the postwar era and years of economic reform.

The film was made entirely on traditional poonah papers, at the same time, most of the scenes and characters in it were also reproductions of the traditional. The characteristics of this type of paper are gray and rough so it can only be used for painting. However, the artisans added a layer of lime and shell powder to make it more durable, even sparkling in the sun.

The film's story is filled with the sound of a new spring, which is as a belief in the bright future of the country and the young generation. It has folk games, some customs to welcome Lunar New Year, but it also seems to contain sighs of anxiety about the trend of massive industrialization and urbanization, which is gradually narrowing the space of the countryside.

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<b>THE CLAY CHICKEN</b>
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Vietnam Animation Studio produced

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Scenarist : Phạm Sông Đông

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Script editor : Đặng Vũ Thảo

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Motion artist : Hoàng Lộc
Caméra operators : Lê Đức Khôi

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Animators : Phạm Hiển, Thu Hương
Decorative artist : Vũ Hoa

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Montager : Nguyễn Viết Phú
Producer : Lê Nguyên Thủy

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Recording engineer : Bành Bắc Hải
Sound engineer : Mạnh Kiên

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Composer : Đỗ Hồng Quân

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Director & main artist : Phạm Ngọc Tuấn

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Fighting of the jackfruit-leaf buffaloes

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Buffalo herding - Flute blowing - Kite flying

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Clay cracker competition

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Lunar-new-year fair

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The calligrapher are selling his letters

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Clay livestocks

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Let's spread our hands and play !

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In baby's hand, a very lovely chicken,

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Calls the dawn, greets the new day.

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Let's see :

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Which hand has it, which hand doesn't ?

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The hammock turns into
a moon kite in his dream.

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Let's spread our hands for fun !

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In baby's hand, a lovely clay chicken,

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It's colorful :

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Green from leaves, red from flowers,

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Even bright yellow from harvest straw.

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Let's see :

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In baby's hand, a very lovely chicken,

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What a lovely chicken !

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Plowing

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Going to the market in early spring

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Splashing water to catch fish

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Rice cultivation in low-lying fields

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Planting season

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Cockfighting

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Square capturing

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Kite flying

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Blind man's buff

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Dragon dance

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The Powder General

Tò-he (面塑, "toy figures") is a long-standing folk toy of Northern Vietnamese people. These are simply animals or sometimes characters created with rice flour mixed with water paint. Usually, the artist will attach a very small bamboo whistle to this toy so that kids can blow it for fun. However, in this story, because of a little mistake by the artist, the children almost lost a precious game.

The Secret in the Lakebed

A serious mine explosion occurred in the middle of the lake, what accidentally stimulating the terrible growth of pests that harm crops. Faced with that situation, the Pioneer Squad decided to dive in the lakebed for investigation. They discovered a fortified base run by a mad scientist, so the group determined to destroy it to return spring to the primeval forest.

To this day, Well, Just You Wait! (Ну, погоди!) remains the only Russian animated film recalled by generations of Vietnamese people. Folks even use the original Russian sentence as a catchphrase when they need to humorously warn about something. That's probably why a not-so-famous director named Đặng Nhân Lập decided to create a Vietnam version of this series.

Since the early 1980s, the two series Tom & Jerry and Well, Just You Wait! has followed many different paths to dominate the film market in Vietnam. Of course, in Vietnam's economic situation at that time, which was both conservative and extremely poor, the managers quietly allowed them to exist to ensure a certain amount of "GDP" to maintain the entire administration. When the free market economy was officially recognized in 1986, the entire Vietnamese cinema also... fell into free fall. This may explain why as time goes on, Vietnamese animation becomes less developed, with too few hand-drawn films, at the same time the drawings are no longer as spacious and the stories are very rigid.

About ten years ago, I had the opportunity to talk with an animation director from Vietnam Television (central television channel). His company was hired by VTV to make a 2,000-episode historical television series to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the founding of Hanoi city. However, the entire crew only has about a dozen persons and must continuously complete it so that every night there will be a film to show. Since then, that series is still being produced, but is completely unknown. The filmmakers' lack of historical understanding is not to blame, because they are just artists, not researchers ; furthermore, because the budget was too low and the time was too tight, they cannot make them diverse. However, the main problem causing those films to die in the dark is the overuse of digital technology. The drawings and movements don't even compare to cutout films. See : Thousand Years of Pride.

Now we will return to the early 1990s, when the Vietnamese government began implementing cultural revival programs. The Hare and Wolf series can be considered a typical example. In fact, they are not part of a unified series and do not have an official title. Each film is an independent story, although the three characters Hare - Wolf - Wolf's Wife are constantly present. Why so ? The filmmaker's main purpose in creating these films was to form a stable source of funding for Vietnam Animation Studio. Until today, even though it is called a company, there are very few employees and the headquarters is just a few small rooms, let alone a few decades ago. This series of films was made according to purchase orders from the Ministry of Culture and Information of Vietnam. Because if they appear on television or in cinemas, they would definitely lose revenue. At that time, animated films in Vietnamese theaters were mostly from Walt Disney and some Japanese studios ; Vietnamese films, of course, could not compete with them.

I think it's very possible that Vietnamese filmmakers have imitated Soyuzmultfilm filmmakers, not Ekran. However, it is true that the original Well, Just You Wait! nor is it purely entertainment like Tom & Jerry. All episodes are intended to educate civic awareness, of course from a humorous and even satirical perspective. Five volumes of Hare and Wolf were produced sporadically from 1992 to 2003. After that period, perhaps because of the Berne Convention, which Vietnam signed in 2006 ; furthermore, at the beginning of the 21st century, Vietnam Animation Studio was in the process of transferring generations and starting to experiment with computer graphics films, therefore, films with content close to children's age will be given priority.

It can truly be said that, this series has coincidentally shown the innovation process of Vietnamese society through economic measures. The Wolf couple covers almost all the identities of rural people (người nhà quê) in Vietnam, specifically the Northern Delta region, where is the political center of the country. Although Hare is just as cunning as in the original Soviet film, he only appears as an object of bullying. I also note one more thing that, as mentioned before, in Southeast Asia there are no wolves, even hares and rabbits are very rare, so the images of hares and wolves in the minds of Vietnamese people are very faint. I say this jokingly, perhaps Vietnamese filmmakers in the past only imagined wolves through dogs. In addition, in the series there are often scenes of Wolf smoking : It is called as the farmer's pipe (điếu cày) ; this tool is a bamboo tube that applies the same mechanism as a cannon, but to use it, you have to pour some water inside like a Maksim machine gun ; that's why when you smoke, its sound will be almost like the sound of a stream, so many people still call it "cigarette shooting" (bắn thuốc lào).