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TELEPHONE

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A film for little ones based on the
fairy tale by Korney Chukovsky

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director Mihail Tsehanovskiy
composer Leonid Shvarts

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camera N. Sokolov, G. Reysgof

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sound N. Bertran
production director A. Yanovskaya

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assistant director
Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya

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art directors
Vera Tsehanovskaya, Ivan Ivanov-Vano

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animators Roman Davydov,
Boris Dyozhkin, Faina Yepifanova,

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Yelizaveta Kazantseva,
Lidiya Reztsova, Gennadiy Filippov

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background artists
Olga Gemmerling, Vera Rodzhero,

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Irina Troyanova, B. Suteyeva,
(planner) N. Orlova

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artistic supervisor Aleksandr Ptushko
(Distinguished Artist of the Republic)

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A production of film-studio
Soyuzmultfim
1944

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[ Telephone ]

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- Hello.
- Hello?

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- Who's speaking?
- Me.

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I'm listening!

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- Speak louder.
- Yes, yes.

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I'm listening.

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Yes, yes?

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My telephone rings.

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- Who is speaking?
- The elephant.

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Calling from where?

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From the camel's.

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What do you want?

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Chocolate.

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For whom?

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For my son.

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How much should I send?

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Oh, five or six tons.

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"Five or six tons"?!

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He can't eat more than that,

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He's still a little kid!

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"A little kid"!

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[For Elephant: Six tons of chocolate]

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Then comes a call from...

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...Crocodile

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who asks with tears in his eyes:

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My dearest, my precious,

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Please send some galoshes -

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For me, my wife, and son Totosha.

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Wait, was it not to you
That, last week, I sent out two

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Pairs of pretty, beautiful
brand-new galoshes?

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Ah, those that you sent out
To our lot last weekend,

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We've eaten,
We've long ago eaten!

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And we're all impatient

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For you to again send a bunch,

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For supper just enough:
Twelve pairs of

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New, sweet galoshes to munch!

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[For crocodile
A dozen pairs of galoshes]

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Lately, two gazelles called me up
And kept harping on some mess up:

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Was there really a huge mishap

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And all carousels have burned up?

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Hey, gazelles, are your heads messed up?

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All the carousels have burned up?

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Was there really a huge mishap

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And all carousels have burned up?

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Hey, gazelles, are your heads messed up?

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No, the carousels aren't burned up,
And the seesaws have no hang-up!

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Don't they, really? Ah-ah?

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Have they really not been burned up?
Have they really not been burned up?

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You, gazelles, should not speak claptrap,

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You should not, gazelles, speak claptrap,
But come on the week that's next up,

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Sit on them, and stop being hung up
about carousels being burned up.

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Could we really? Ah-ah!

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After that, certain herons called here:

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Please send stomach drops for us all here.

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We've swallowed every frog in the lake,
And are croaking with a stomachache!

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It is us, it is us, the wee hares:

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Could you arrange some gloves
to be sent here?

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Hello, hello, this is Elk. I say!
I have been trying to reach you all day!

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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
It's us, the chimpanzees:

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Would you send us some books to read, please?

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Don't recognize us? It is us,
Tit-mous-es.

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Chirp-chirp, if you are able,

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Please send some matches.

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Hello, hello, this is Elk. I say!
I have been trying to reach you all day!

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Oh, help the sick Walrus, I pray!
He swallowed a live urchin the other day!

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And you know what?! I'll tell you, quickly:
The urchin turned out to be prickly!

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And then Bear rang me up on the phone

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And he grunted, he growled and he groaned.

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Take it easy, now, Bear!
Don't just grumble!

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Please explain what you want,
and don't mumble.

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But he just cried "Moo!" and "Moo!",

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But how come, and for what,
I've no clue!

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If you please, hang up the receiver!

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It's the same silly song,
All day long!

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Ting-a-ling, ding-a-ling,
Ding-a-long!

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Seals, deer, elephants,
all join the throng!

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[ Telephone ]

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- Mayday!
- Mayday!

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- Mayday!
- Mayday!

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- Who is speaking?
- The rhino!

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What's the matter?

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Mayday! Mayday!
You must hurry here right away!

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- What's the fuss?
- Save him!

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- Who?
- The Hippopotamus.

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Our Hippo is sinking in that swamp dismal...

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"Sinking in that swamp dismal?"

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Yes!
He can't move forward or back!

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Oh, if you don't come this instant...

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He will sink, sink in that
swamp dismal!

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He'll die, he'll croak, oh, oh,
Poor Hippo-po.

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All right! Okay! Okay!
I'm coming to help right away!

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Whew! What a job! You need some luck
To help a Hippo when he's stuck!

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The End

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Subtitles - Niffiwan, Eus, partly using
translation by William Jay Smith, 2025