The Boy and the Cloud
Here between the mountains in a valley
lived a boy, goat kids and a cow.
The cow was kind and thoughtful.
She gave the boy milk.
The goat kids were terrible bullies.
All day long, they competed to see who was stronger.
And the boy...
The boy, more than anything else in the world, loved to watch the clouds.
He could look at the clouds from morning until dusk. Every day.
And he never got tired of it in the slightest.
And he never got bored.
But then one day...
That's how they became friends.
"This is for you,
so you don't get lost in the mountains," said the boy.
"I've got to go,"
said the cloud.
"What?
Are you leaving already?" asked the scared boy.
"I'll be back again tomorrow," said the cloud,
"and the day after tomorrow, too.
From now on, I'll come here every day."
"I now have my own cloud," thought the boy.
And he really wanted to show the cloud to his friends.
After all, it's an awful shame when no one, absolutely no one,
ever sees your triumph.
"Let's go down to the valley," said the boy.
"I'm afraid," replied the cloud.
"Clouds always live high up, in the mountains."
But the boy insisted.
And the cloud agreed.
Is there anything you won't do to avoid upsetting your friend?
"You'll come down for just one little minute,
and then you'll go back up the mountain again," said the boy.
"Look who I've brought," the boy shouted.
"It's my own pet cloud."
And that's how it ended.
But it could have been very, very different.
screenwriter Zhanna Vitenzon director Alla Grachyova art director Nikolay Churilov
composer Boris Buyevskiy
animators Konstantin Chikin, Nina Churilova, M. Briker, S. Berezovskaya
camera Anatoliy Gavrilov sound Igor Pogon script editor Svetlana Kutsenko
assistants R. Lumelskaya, O. Kasyanenko, I. Dotsenko, Yu. Srebnitskaya
narrator Ya. Kozlov production director Ivan Mazepa
Creative Collective for Fictive Animation of the Kiev Studio of Popular Science Films, 1970
THE END Subs by Eus (2025.07), revised by Niffiwan (2026.02) @ animatsiya.net