1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,073 Commissioned by the USSR State Committee on Television and Radio 2 00:00:05,094 --> 00:00:08,160 Sverdlovsk Film Studio 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:11,679 The Little Sparrow 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,480 Based on the story by A.M. Gorky 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:30,879 Once upon a time, there lived a yellow-beaked sparrow named Pudik. 6 00:00:31,056 --> 00:00:33,079 He had not yet tried to fly, 7 00:00:33,079 --> 00:00:37,542 but already he was flapping his little wings and poking his head out of the nest. 8 00:00:37,642 --> 00:00:41,680 He was very impatient to know what the outside world was like 9 00:00:41,679 --> 00:00:45,000 and whether it was good enough for him. 10 00:00:47,740 --> 00:00:50,364 Peeping at the ground, he chirped, 11 00:00:53,363 --> 00:00:55,039 "It's ch-err-ibly dark!" 12 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:30,200 "What, what?" asked Mother Sparrow. 13 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,605 "Ch-err-ibly dark!" 14 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:41,640 Then Father Sparrow came home with insects for Pudik and started boasting, 15 00:02:42,090 --> 00:02:45,560 Well, am I the chief or not? 16 00:02:49,159 --> 00:02:54,079 "The chief, the chief!" Mother Sparrow chirped approvingly. 17 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,089 But Pudik just swallowed the insects and thought to himself, 18 00:03:03,092 --> 00:03:08,640 "What're they boasting about? They gave me a leggy worm." 19 00:03:14,259 --> 00:03:16,000 "What a miracle!" 20 00:03:31,039 --> 00:03:33,599 "My child, my child" his mother chirped at him, 21 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:35,850 "Mind you don't fall out!" 22 00:03:35,849 --> 00:03:37,159 "Why, why?" 23 00:03:40,156 --> 00:03:42,319 "If you fall to the ground," 24 00:03:42,319 --> 00:03:44,609 "The cat will go - 'Chik'!" 25 00:03:45,606 --> 00:03:47,610 "and gobble you up!" 26 00:03:51,372 --> 00:03:54,120 his father explained, flying off on another hunt. 27 00:04:08,814 --> 00:04:10,680 And so the days went by. 28 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:15,120 Yet Pudik's wings were in no hurry to grow. 29 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,400 One day a strong wind sprang up. 30 00:04:19,500 --> 00:04:21,759 "Twee-ee-eet! Twee-ee-eet! What's this?" 31 00:04:21,759 --> 00:04:23,360 Pudik wanted to know. 32 00:04:23,439 --> 00:04:25,149 "It's the wind," 33 00:04:26,149 --> 00:04:27,680 "It might blow on you - chirik!" 34 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,980 "and you could fall to the ground, to the cat!" 35 00:04:37,379 --> 00:04:39,839 "Why are the trees swaying?" 36 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,029 "Let them stop swaying, and the wind will go away." 37 00:04:52,060 --> 00:04:54,889 His mother tried to explain that it wasn't like that, 38 00:04:54,892 --> 00:04:57,119 but he would not believe her. 39 00:05:01,019 --> 00:05:04,180 He had his own answer for everything. 40 00:05:10,269 --> 00:05:13,680 A man walked past the bath-house, swinging his arms. 41 00:05:18,028 --> 00:05:21,040 "The cat must have torn his wings off," 42 00:05:21,139 --> 00:05:23,269 "Only the bones remain." 43 00:05:31,259 --> 00:05:36,019 "That's a man. None of them have wings!" 44 00:05:36,024 --> 00:05:37,639 "But why?" 45 00:05:37,204 --> 00:05:39,759 "That's how they are." 46 00:05:39,759 --> 00:05:45,279 "All they can do is hop about on two legs, see?" 47 00:05:45,786 --> 00:05:47,899 "What twaddle!" 48 00:05:48,904 --> 00:05:51,059 "Everyone ought to have wings." 49 00:05:51,062 --> 00:05:53,449 "It can't be as fun on the ground as it is in the air!" 50 00:05:56,754 --> 00:06:00,000 "When I'm big and grown up," 51 00:06:00,761 --> 00:06:06,560 "I'll see to it that everyone can fly!" 52 00:07:02,033 --> 00:07:04,079 "An honor to meet you, an honor!" 53 00:07:05,661 --> 00:07:07,449 "Scram, scram!" 54 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:09,660 "Fly, Pudik, fly!" 55 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:14,079 cried the Mama bird as she was chased by the cat 56 00:07:16,220 --> 00:07:18,480 Fear lifted the little sparrow off the ground. 57 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,830 He took one jump, flapped his wings, and there he was on the window ledge. 58 00:07:25,322 --> 00:07:27,519 And after him came Mother. 59 00:07:27,259 --> 00:07:29,379 "Are you alive?" 60 00:07:29,675 --> 00:07:32,000 "Barely alive." 61 00:08:07,220 --> 00:08:10,220 So it came out all right in the end. 62 00:08:10,220 --> 00:08:12,450 Pudik learned how to fly, 63 00:08:12,639 --> 00:08:16,329 And learned he should always listen to his mother, 64 00:08:16,418 --> 00:08:20,139 and everything would be okay. 65 00:08:20,535 --> 00:08:25,400 Screenwriter: I. Alexandrova, Director: A. Karayev, Art director: V. Kurochkina 66 00:08:25,399 --> 00:08:30,810 Cinematographer: N. Gribkov, Composer: A. Nimenskiy, Animators: A. Karayev, V. Petkevich 67 00:08:31,814 --> 00:08:35,860 Artists: O. Minnebaeva, A. Petrov, N. Portnova, Sound engineer: L. Erykalova 68 00:08:35,855 --> 00:08:39,440 Editor: R. Shamrai, Narrator: V. Larionov, Script editor: I. Boguslavskiy 69 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,000 Production director - L. Slepneva 70 00:08:42,581 --> 00:08:44,820 The End.