Soyuzmultfilm production 1962 Creative Collective for puppet films
Vladimir Mayakovsky
The Flying Proletarian (1925) & Screenplay "How are you?"('26-'27): ^, March of the shock brigades('30): +,
Proletarian, strangle the war in the bud ('24): #, Poems à la Mayakovsky (A. Galich, '62): *
Script writer Aleksandr Galich Directors Iosif Boyarsky, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Art director Vadim Kurchevsky
Camera Teodor Bunimovich Music Revol Bunin Sound Boris Filchikov
Animators B Meyerovich, P Petrov, V Shilobreyev, script editor N Abramova Art assistant D. Gorbachyov, montage T. Sazonova
Text read by B. Popov, puppets & decor Roman Gurov, Oleg Massainov Executive producer Natan Bitman
[Mayakovsky] [Pravda] [Izvestiya]
In "Pravda", the truth is written.
In "Izvestya", there is news.
Facts. You can take them and put them on the table.
But a poet is also interested in what will happen in two hundred years
or in a hundred.
For decades the pages of all newspapers,
are stuffed with death, mutilation, grief...
But insignificant will these slaughterhouses seem
in comparison to future phantasmagoria.
#In the present, the Great War has been summed up.
#Memoirs are written by history's scribes.
#But the pain of our loved ones,
#is still screaming out to us from the dry figures.
#30 million under arms are but a molehill,
#compared to hundreds of millions moaning and howling.
#Yet this hell will seem to be a child's rattle
#compared to the coming war that is just being prepared.
*Don't do it! Stop! Come to your senses, people!
*I wave, like a banner, this line,
*For a world in which there will be no war...
*Yet I believe, I know - this will happen!
There'll come some year with many zeros.
The last battle-thunder will have died down.
In Moscow, there will be no more alleys & streets -
only airfields and houses.
*Human thought is faster than light!
*And the poet's thought is faster yet!
*Look at this fantasy - a poet's jest
*About a citizen's day in the world of the future!
"Eight o'clock" Screams the radio alarm clock, politely:
"Comrade - get up, Do not sleep again. Work is calling!
No special tasks for this alarm clock?
Well, then goodbye. Cheers!"
Still a little drowsy and not wanting to rush the citizen tried to catch a flight.
[Air-ball: Spartak vs. Dynamo Venus stadium Tickets for sale ----]
Bearing the most polite manner,
The air-police stopped our man.
No report, nor a fine followed...
but just - a polite reprimand.
Fifteen minutes. it took -
and the citizen arrived at his work.
[Central Air Factory]
The factory: A building of 40 floors.
Disembarked 40 men of furious zeal.
It's pure and clean - neither smoke, nor soot.
An elevator takes each man to his floor.
No noises, no crowds!
One keyboard - not unlike an "Underwood"*... (*typewriter company)
...type the letters needed, and everything else is done by motors.
[Central Air Factory]
Their product is compressed air
for interplanetary travels.
A (Maggi like)cube per cabin - of any width,
and one breathes in for 24 hours the essence of pine.
All prepare for the gymnastics!
The Central Milk Factory is at work
Here, they produce from clouds
artificial sour cream and milk.
Soon we will forget what a cow is called.
Do you get this much from a cow's udder anyway?
[Milk]
[Beer] *Non-alcoholic!
*From the shoemaker to the tailor -
*No one can stand the smell of alcohol!
Four hours flash by in an instant.
And each man - has air, has sour cream, has milk...
No chance to get drowsy like sleepy owls.
The working day Is four hours!
- How are you? Good day.
- Well, I've just left my field's fences.
...the wheat is tormented by heat,
so I'm managing the artificial clouds
I need to produce rain,
But.. - without hail. Goodbye!
It's time for dinner! -
No kitchen, no domestic work!
[Coffee & cake shop]
Instead, there are flying public diners, [Dairy kitchen, Eastern kitchen]
[Space kitchen]
Go in, sit; Take and eat.
You can visit 2, You can visit 5 -
For any mood, For any appetite.
Next - onto education.
The citizen flies to the higher learning institute in just a minute.
We have these days - different categories of study, [Academy, Laboratory]
Let's say - the wage class hauls, while poetry's for more noble souls.
But in the future, there will not be more honorable and less honorable...
Shoemakers, and dairy maidens - will all be thought geniuses.
Today at school - there's a practical lesson.
Solve - if there is or there isn't a god.
In our opinion, religion is opium.
We examined God's depictions - divine copies.
Then with the teacher we fly for the heavens. to decide for ourselves!
The heavens we inspected from the inside and from the outside.
No Gods, nor Angels were detected.
^A man put on ice was found.
^We thought to resurrect the individual.
[Militarism. Colonialism. Fascism. Racism.]
- Hello! I couldn't catch the name...
Oh! It's you! Hello, my love!
I'm leaving! Immediately! In five minutes I'll have crossed the sky to its full length.
In this weather the going is easy
Wait for me by the cloud -
under the Great Bear.
"Big Bear" Cultural park
Alley of Astronauts
Alley of Heroes of Communist Labor
Finally - in the future it will be possible -
to dance across the sky
No stamping, no raising dust,
gracefully arching one's wings, they dance up a fantastic quadrille.
[Chaikovsky, Dunaevsky, Brahms, J. Strauss, Gluck] [Shostakovich, Bogoslovsky, Chopin, Lehar, Haydn] [Prokofiev, Blanter, Ravel, Offenbach, Bach] [Hachaturyan, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Kalman, Beethoven]
Then the radio shouts: - Citizens! I remind you - it's time to sleep!
Turning to his side is the satisfied citizen,
yawning and closing his eyelids.
--- Like this will spend his days the citizen of the end of the XX century -
*once the poet imagined this for fun!
*But now, each of his fantasies proves even more beautiful.
*Over the horizon of fast-running years
*Our future has already risen!
[Vladimir Mayakovsky 1925 The Flying Proletarian]
+Enthusiasm, spreads and expands. (program communist party) - [PEACE]
+Victory shines more radiantly. (Follow-up report comrade Khrushchev) [WORK] - [FREEDOM]
+Today communism is being built [SACRIFICES] - [BROTHERHOOD]
+Alive, Real, Joyful. [HAPPINESS]
The End Subs by Lemicnor, Eus & Niffiwan, 2021