Soyuzmultfilm Moscow 1950
The Little Pipe and the Little Jug Scenario V Kataev Lyrics V Kataev and M Volpin
directed by Viktor Gromov, music Antonio Spadavekkia, art director V. Degtyaryov, camera Yelena Petrova sound Boris Filchikov, montage V. Yegorova
animators Lamis Bredis, Dmitriy Belov, Vladimir Arbekov, I. Staryuk, Renata Mirenkova, Vladimir Danilevich, Gennady Filippov, Igor Podgorsky, Mihail Botov
Background artists Ye. Tannenberg, N. Vereshchagina, G. Nevzorova Aerography K. Malyshev
"We woke up at dawn before all other children in the world,
And when we left - We woke nobody up,
- Let them rest! - Let them rest!
We're not going out to have fun, And not just for a stroll,
We are going out to gather Strawberries for jam
- With a rosy foam! - With a rosy foam!"
- Zhenya!
Zhenya! Here's a great spot!
Start gathering here, while me and Pavlik find ourselves another meadow.
A great spot?!
But where are the berries?
There are no berries there! Nothing but leaves!
- Did you look under the leaves?
Under the leaves?! I didn't!
- Just you look there!
- Oh!
Berries!
- There, you see?
- Look, at how Petya and I do it!
Pluck a berry, Look at the next,
Search for the third, And dream of the fourth!
- Got it? - Got it, got it!
I'll gather them quickly now!
Pluck a berry,
Look at the next,
Search for the third...
And dream of the fourth, the fourth...
Pluck a berry...
Oh, I'm awfully tired!
Ooh! Way too few!
Well! I don't like gathering like this at all!
Oh!
- Hello, little girl! - Hello, little mister!
- I'm no mister, I'm an elder!
I'm Grandpa Boletus, native woodsman,
and chief of all the mushrooms and berries!
- Yeah!
- Why are you crying? Who aggrieved you?
The berries did!
They hide under the leaves and I can't see them at all!
- Oh, that's it... hold on!
Little pipe, play!
- It flies! It flies!
- Little pipe, stop!
- Grandpa, Grandpa, please give me that little pipe!
- I can't just give it away! Let's swap!
- Swap? Swap what?
- I'll give you the little pipe and you give me the jug!
- All right!
Little pipe... start playing!
Faster, little pipe, faster!
Faster, little pipe, even faster!
Phew, silly pipe! I've nothing to put the berries into, and you're still playing.
You be quiet right now!
Grandpa, Grandpa, please give me back my jug - I have nothing to put the berries into!
- All right, but you give me back the pipe! - Here!
Oh! Oh! Oh!
- Well, well!
- Grandpa! Give me the little pipe!
Little pipe... start playing!
Grandpa! The jug!
Grandpa, Grandpa! I absolutely need the jug and the pipe at the same time!
- Look at you, what a sly girl!
You'll manage without the pipe, with just the jug!
I won't manage! I won't manage!
- And how do other people manage it, then?
- Other people bend down all the way down to the ground!
They look under the leaves from the side!
But I don't like to gather like that at all, with all that bending over!
- Oh, that's how it is!
So you're just lazy!
Here, in the meadow, are enough berries To make jam for a year!
My forest has enough similar meadows To make 240 thousand jars!
But without hard work and patience, Yes, without patience and hard work
There will not even be enough berries To fill a saucer with jam!
Yes!
- Yeah!
- Ah! Grandpa!
Grandpa, show yourself!
Mister, am I really lazy?
- Was the old man cross with you? But it's true, this will not do!
Did the old man shout at you? But it's true, you do need to work hard!
You look around carefully: Everyone's working very diligently!
- No, I...
Bees!
Without work and attentiveness You won't fill honeycombs with honey!
- Without work, without labour, You couldn't weave yourself a nest!
- Even a small bite to eat One cannot get without work!
Even water that is clean, even water that is clean, One cannot get without work!"
- Ants!
- [Singing] "We are carrying a tall blade of grass
To build up an anthill,
But, boy, is this tall blade Really, really stubborn!
It does not want to move. It wants to keep lying where it is!
But we're not famed for our strength for nothing,
We can handle any blade of grass!
So, whether it wants to or does not, It will have to make a move!"
Hey, little Zhenya, You stay there in that meadow Just stay a little more!
You have not far to go, And you've not much to carry,
After all, your jug is empty!
- That's not true!
I will fill it up and even add a little heap on top!
Pluck a berry, Look at the next,
Search for a third And dream of the fourth!
- Well, well! Well, well!
- Zhe-ny-a!
Ahoy!!!
- Ahoy!!
Wow! Peter!
- Full! Good for you, Zhenya!
But where is she? - There!
- Zhenya!
Aren't you tired?
- No way, Peter! My jug helped me!
"Strawberry Jam We will have to our tea on Sunday,
But for lazy girls and boys There won't be tea to sit and drink!
- Let them rest! - Let them rest!
Grumpy Mushroom, until next time! I will promise, as we part:
I will not be capricious And I'll stop being lazy.
I will be good! I will be good!"
The End Trans. by Eus (2016) & Niffiwan (2023) Based on Russian subs by Elena (2013)