Creative Association "Ekran" 1981
Plasticine Crow
The film uses drawings by children from the animation studio of the Kiev Central Republican Pioneers' Palace.
About Paintings (Aleksandr Kushner)
Should you see on any painting A blue river, moving fast,
Or a spruce, with white frost covered, Or a yard, sky overcast,
Or a snowfield, good for sleighing, Or a field with tent take shape,
Then the name for such a painting Is undoubtedly...
"Landscape!"
Should a picture framed in amber Have a coffee mug someplace,
Or juice in a large decanter, Or a rose in crystal vase,
Or a bronzed heavy kettle, Or a pear, a cake, or pie,
Or all of those things together, - Know that this is...
"A still life!"
If you see that from this painting, Someone's looking out at us -
Say, a prince in old-time costume, Or a man high on a truss,
Pilot, or a ballet dancer,
Neighbour Kolya, your classmate,
Then you may be sure: this painting Will go by the name...
"Buffet!"
"Not buffet."
"Portrait!"
A Game (Ovsey Driz)
Here, I see a... bush growing my lawn,
Sparrows playing "leapfrog" - and they've gone!
There's my funny dog going on a stroll...
Now we don't see anything at all.
Here, I see a... tall pillar of dust -
Lorry 'round the corner, rushing fast,
I can see a driver in control.
Now we don't see anything at all.
Here we see a... moth in yellow frock,
...swinging itself on a thin, green stalk.
We see, through the...
We see, through the window flies a bumblebee,
And again, again it's all dark around me.
Again, we see: an armchair is de-dusted.
We see thunder approaching in the skies.
It's so really, very interesting! -
Closing and opening one's eyes.
It's so very interesting!
Or Maybe, or Maybe... (Eduard Uspenskiy)
There is a simple folk tale,
OR MAYBE not a folk tale,
OR MAYBE not so simple,
that we'd like you to hear
We know it from our childhood,
or maybe from adulthood,
or maybe we don't know it,
but hope it will appear.
Begin!
One time there was a crow,
or possibly a dog,
or possibly a cow,
who struck a lucky score.
She found a piece of cheese;
about 200 grams
or possibly 300
or maybe even more.
She flew right up a pine,
or maybe didn't fly
or maybe up a palm tree
she ran right up from thence,
and there for some good breakfasting,
or maybe for some dinner,
or maybe even suppertime,
she quietly made her plans.
And then?
But here a fox was running,
or maybe wasn't running,
or maybe a mad ostrich,
or kind, we might presume.
or possibly a sweeper!
who traipsed along the countryside,
to find the nearest hazel tree,
and carve himself a broom!
Oh listen my dear crow,
unless you are a dog,
or possibly a cow
the finest cow of all,
Your feathers are exquisite,
your horns are really something,
your hooves are nice and slim,
and what a kindly soul!
If ever you should sing,
or maybe if you woof
or maybe if you moo
(since cows moo a lot)
then you'll get a big saddle
a carpet and a TV,
nice presents will be gotten
or maybe will be got.
And so, the stupid crow,
or possibly the dog,
or possibly
the hippo!
began to sing and crow...
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
So fell the crow's cheese,
or possibly the dog's,
or possibly the cow's;
on this we are agreed
and right atop the fox
Stop throwing things!
or possibly the ostrich
or possibly the sweeper
it fell with some great speed.
The moral of this tale,
which may not be a tale,
not just a grown adult;
a dwarf should understand:
don't ever stand, don't jump around,
don't sing or even try to dance
in off-limits construction zones
where heavy things might land.
That's all!
Screenwriter and director: Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Art director: Igor Kovalyov Music: Grigoriy Gladkov
Camera operator: Ernst Gaman Sound operator: Nelli Kudrina
Artists: Yelena Kosareva A. Raspopov
Singers: Leonid Bronevoy Aleksandr Levenbuk
L. Shimelov, Grigoriy Gladkov Alyosha Pavlov
Editor: Lyubov Georgiyeva
Script editor: Valeriya Konovalova
Production director: L. Varentsova
THE END
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