THE FIRST LESSON Soyuzmultfilm Moscow 1948
written by Vladimir Nemolyayev directed by Lamis Bredis art director Syuzanna Byalkovskaya
music Mihail Starokamodsky text author Mihail Volpin camera Anatoliy Velikohatko
animators Faina Yepifanova, Nadezhda Privalova, L. Popov, Tatyana Taranovich, Boris Meyerovich, Vadim Dolgikh, Boris Titov
sound Nikolay Prilutskiy Assistant director V. Shilina executive producer N. Tsofnas
Well, for today, my dear furballs,
we are finished with your math lessons.
So now we'll get down to learning about honey...
and its role and importance in nature.
I will draw here on the board an insect,
that you're probably all familiar with.
I will draw another wing on him. - Done!
Toptygin, what is it in your opinion?
- I think ... this is... - drgfl-u-u -what? -A Dragonfly.
Don't give me hints!
It's a goat.
A goat?!
But then it would have no antennae.
And the wings?
Which beast has wings?
Oh, you deaf black grouse!* - What? * [= Deaf as a post]
On the blackboard is drawn, Mihailo Potapych, a deaf black grouse.
Sit down, that's nonsense - a worthless answer.
An F-minus!
Mishutkin? Well, speak if you know the answer!
What is drawn here? What do you think?
On this board with chalk is drawn...eh... With chalk is drawn... something alive.
With whiskers, a head, legs and a body!
A fine answer, but let us not go too fast.
On its wings it has no feathers or fluff,
No fluff... so it's not a bird, but a little bug called a "fly"!
That's not correct, furballs - it is a bee!
She is always at work,
and extracts honey for bears.
Guys, look, it's a bee!
Fluffy sweetness the honey-carrying bee
carefully stores in cells of wax.
One needs a lot of skill and cunning,
to, while staying friendly with the bee-carrying folk,
shake out the contents of their hive,
and get some delicious honey for breakfast!
If one throws oneself too rough on the beehive...
The bee is sure to painfully sting.
A poisonous bullet will stick into you, and...
What is this? Where are they? Did they all run away?
Come on! Keep going after her! There, there!
But this water here... it's just... ugh...
Come on, Toptyzhka, get up there and you, take him on the shoulders... come on!
Now we'll start to learn about honey...
Its role and significance in nature...
Well, kids, shall we continue our conversation about honey?
and its role and significance in nature?
You can see here on the board, an insect that probably all of you, uh-are...
...very well familiar with!
Not a bird, not a fish, not a mammal,
And they can, as one knows...
...painfully sting!
If you do not take advantage of what you're taught
You can get punished for that harshly.
And that, friends, is the lesson for us...
In the future we won't run away from lessons.
We won't run away from lessons.
The End Subs by Chapaev, Eus & Niffiwan (2021)