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Subtitles for New Year's Eve (1948)

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December 29 2021 13:12:01
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Novogodnyaya noch.1948.en.2.24fps-niffiwan.1640783521.srt ⭳
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Translated by Niffiwan in Dec. 2021. It follows the original rhyme meter and meaning as closely as possible. The timings are based on the 2012 subtitles by Eus, but almost none of the earlier translation is retained. Also, this is for the 24 frames-per-second version of the film.

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1 00:00:00,083 --> 00:00:02,625 Soyuzmultfilm 1948 2 00:00:02,667 --> 00:00:08,167 NEW YEAR'S EVE 3 00:00:08,417 --> 00:00:11,894 directed & written by Olga Hodatayeva & Pyotr Nosov 4 00:00:11,995 --> 00:00:14,380 words (poems) Mihail Volpin, art director Pyotr Nosov 5 00:00:14,509 --> 00:00:17,050 composer G. Lobachyov camera Mihail Druyan, sound S. Renskiy 6 00:00:17,151 --> 00:00:19,501 technical assistant K. Apestin montage assistant A. Firsova 7 00:00:19,625 --> 00:00:21,225 animators Yelena Khludova, Lidiya Reztsova, L. Popov, 8 00:00:21,326 --> 00:00:22,526 Nikolay Fyodorov, Tatyana Fyodorova, Lev Pozdneyev, N. Dragunov, A. Birulin, 9 00:00:22,627 --> 00:00:23,627 Lev Zhdanov, M. Kuprach 10 00:00:23,717 --> 00:00:25,092 backgrounds N. Vereshchagina, N. Holmogortsev 11 00:00:25,193 --> 00:00:26,093 production director N. Tsofnas 12 00:00:54,583 --> 00:01:02,167 Yes? New Year! Grandson! Hello! 13 00:01:02,333 --> 00:01:07,700 Don't worry, we're all set to go. What's that? 14 00:01:07,792 --> 00:01:12,908 Hey, hares, stop making noise!.. Am I to take you seriously? 15 00:01:13,350 --> 00:01:16,725 Dear Grandpa Frost, place on the tree 16 00:01:16,926 --> 00:01:20,826 Gold pine-cones for the girls and boys! 17 00:01:20,967 --> 00:01:23,750 Get on the job, old man, right now - 18 00:01:23,851 --> 00:01:27,351 Gold pine-cones I am demanding! 19 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:34,250 So all the kids in Moscow town Would shout as one: "outstanding!" 20 00:01:34,417 --> 00:01:41,100 D'you hear? No normal pine-cones, I am told - Make sure that they are made of gold! 21 00:01:41,251 --> 00:01:42,651 "Get on the job"! 22 00:01:43,008 --> 00:01:45,900 And if those sorts of trees don't grow in my domain? 23 00:01:45,901 --> 00:01:47,501 I've never seen them anywhere! 24 00:01:47,967 --> 00:01:52,583 And there is little time to spare. Just 15 minutes now remain! 25 00:01:53,067 --> 00:01:59,708 Well, grumbling won't do any good. Let's have a look; let's search the wood. 26 00:02:02,517 --> 00:02:05,767 It's this old man's unlucky day... 27 00:02:05,958 --> 00:02:07,992 Oh where am I to find it, pray? 28 00:02:08,125 --> 00:02:12,825 Why don't you ask the Crescent Moon? There is no doubt he will agree. 29 00:02:12,926 --> 00:02:16,626 He'll swing down from a small cloud soon And look around attentively. 30 00:02:17,133 --> 00:02:22,708 I think you're right! Hare, I'm in awe! Thank you, my dear, give me your paw! 31 00:02:25,083 --> 00:02:29,391 Crescent, with your horns so curved, Tell the paths that you've observed. 32 00:02:29,883 --> 00:02:34,808 Perhaps you can see from yonder, Or perhaps have you been told, 33 00:02:34,909 --> 00:02:40,209 Of where one may find this wonder, This fir tree with pine-cones gold? 34 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:45,066 There's the track of a brown bear - Follow it, and you'll be there. 35 00:02:45,208 --> 00:02:52,167 Veer not from where the beast's passed, And you'll reach the tree at last. 36 00:02:52,700 --> 00:02:57,425 Thanks a lot! For your directions, Your good will and recollections! 37 00:02:57,908 --> 00:03:03,383 Glad to help, but have a care: Of the Wood Spirit beware! 38 00:03:04,167 --> 00:03:08,375 <i>A steel bird is flying Across the starry skies!</i> 39 00:03:08,476 --> 00:03:12,076 <i>At 12 o'clock exactly, I must materialize.</i> 40 00:03:12,408 --> 00:03:16,291 <i>Upon the clock's 12th chiming, The New Year will appear.</i> 41 00:03:16,392 --> 00:03:19,892 <i>And that is why my motors Are going at full gear!</i> 42 00:03:20,183 --> 00:03:23,933 <i>Go at full speed, My motors, hear?</i> 43 00:03:24,034 --> 00:03:27,684 <i>Into Moscow Flies the New Year!</i> 44 00:03:28,183 --> 00:03:34,009 Now that is an amazing sight! 45 00:03:34,100 --> 00:03:37,150 Yet something here does not feel right... 46 00:03:37,325 --> 00:03:43,158 Don't be afraid, you scaredy-hare! I think we will pull through. 47 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:48,125 Who plays these games? I'm well aware! 48 00:04:02,992 --> 00:04:08,175 - You're such a coward, Grey... - And you're so brave, I hear... 49 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:12,375 No coward... so they say... But you're all white from fear. 50 00:04:25,717 --> 00:04:34,092 Oh wood spirit, you thought you could Foil Grandpa Frost's design? 51 00:04:34,634 --> 00:04:37,567 Confound you, get lost in your wood! 52 00:04:37,709 --> 00:04:41,875 It's now my turn to shine! 53 00:04:42,117 --> 00:04:45,892 Well, grey-beard, tell it to me plain: 54 00:04:45,984 --> 00:04:48,834 Why have you entered my domain? 55 00:04:48,925 --> 00:04:55,125 I have no time to play your game... You know precisely why I came. 56 00:04:55,250 --> 00:04:58,542 Oh yes, I know just what you want. 57 00:04:58,675 --> 00:05:00,584 - Then give it! - Nope. 58 00:05:00,667 --> 00:05:01,284 Give! 59 00:05:01,375 --> 00:05:02,542 I won't! 60 00:05:02,734 --> 00:05:06,025 You're one odd wood spirit, I see. 61 00:05:06,150 --> 00:05:08,900 We don't just want the tree for free! 62 00:05:09,092 --> 00:05:13,034 For this fine tree, you'll get a treat - Frost brought you something very neat. 63 00:05:13,250 --> 00:05:19,292 Give me a break, and go away... What I've got's better, any day! 64 00:05:19,534 --> 00:05:26,083 Please get my lacquered box, good bear, From underneath that log right there! 65 00:05:26,375 --> 00:05:30,017 Old man, let's have a brawl! 66 00:05:30,218 --> 00:05:33,718 Old man, let's have a quarrel! 67 00:05:33,809 --> 00:05:36,875 Whose wonder is more wondrous? 68 00:05:36,976 --> 00:05:40,376 Whose marvel is more marvellous? 69 00:05:40,817 --> 00:05:46,100 The winner, you or me, Shall own the magic tree! 70 00:05:46,209 --> 00:05:49,308 You game? - I'm game! 71 00:05:50,650 --> 00:05:56,858 So now come here, And look, grey-beard! 72 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,584 A marvel, right? What say you, lad? 73 00:06:02,075 --> 00:06:05,117 It's so-so, neither good nor bad... 74 00:06:05,259 --> 00:06:12,042 Now, woody brother, it's my turn. Who will come out on top, we'll learn. 75 00:06:15,909 --> 00:06:20,275 All right, wood chum, Don't look so glum. 76 00:06:20,567 --> 00:06:25,350 You said yourself, "let's have a brawl"... You said yourself, "let's have a quarrel"! 77 00:06:25,584 --> 00:06:29,784 So you've just yourself to blame - Give me that for which I came! 78 00:06:29,925 --> 00:06:34,084 Wait, you old man, not so fast... I will fight until the last! 79 00:06:34,525 --> 00:06:40,758 I have more to show to you, Look at wonder number two! 80 00:06:40,859 --> 00:06:47,709 See? A stove, with chimney tall, Travels swiftly, fire and all! 81 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:54,492 Travel by stove's quite the trick, One's back's warmed by heated brick! 82 00:06:54,684 --> 00:06:58,858 It is good, but out of style... 83 00:06:58,959 --> 00:07:02,159 Cars are better by a mile! 84 00:07:02,550 --> 00:07:05,983 And much genius is found In the metro underground, 85 00:07:06,875 --> 00:07:12,542 Trains electric, trains that steam, Frost says: an ingenious scheme! 86 00:07:13,034 --> 00:07:18,542 Too soon joy comes to your eyes. There is more I have to share! 87 00:07:18,784 --> 00:07:25,083 Look, the young Prince Ivan flies On that flying carpet there. 88 00:07:25,325 --> 00:07:30,708 On a carpet? 'Neath the sky? What a wonder, my-oh-my... 89 00:07:31,350 --> 00:07:34,100 Though I really should not feud... 90 00:07:34,442 --> 00:07:37,158 But I can't help but conclude... 91 00:07:37,300 --> 00:07:43,292 ...it just looks absurd Next to that fine bird! 92 00:07:51,817 --> 00:07:56,325 Get thee away, and take with you That awful bird that's just come through! 93 00:07:56,517 --> 00:08:02,125 I'll cut that tree myself, I swear, And give a ruble to each hare. 94 00:08:02,467 --> 00:08:08,167 This tree really is marvellous! 95 00:08:12,767 --> 00:08:18,958 Oh, you fairy tale, you fable, It seems no one needs you now... 96 00:08:19,850 --> 00:08:25,875 To the new fairy tale-fable The old fairy tale must bow... 97 00:08:26,317 --> 00:08:31,367 Oh, wise Leshy, don't feel helpless - What you say is just not true. 98 00:08:31,459 --> 00:08:38,500 No, the fable old must help us To create the fable new! 99 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:39,708 I've brought you these toys and fir tree - 100 00:09:39,809 --> 00:09:43,109 From the land of fairy-tales they've crossed. 101 00:09:43,300 --> 00:09:46,958 Happy New Year, my dear children! 102 00:09:47,250 --> 00:09:50,625 Happy New Year, Grandpa Frost! 103 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:31,209 Translation - Niffiwan Original subs, minor translation - Eus 104 00:10:31,401 --> 00:10:34,126 THE END