"Soyuzmultfilm" Artistic collective for puppet films
Our Pencil Firefly No. 4
screenwriter Vladimir Suteyev
director & artist Vladimir Degtyaryov camera Mihail Kamenetskiy
composer Roman Ledenyov sound Georgiy Martynyuk
puppet animators Vladimir Puzanov, Pavel Petrov
voices Rina Zelyonaya, Klara Rumyanova, Sergey Tseyts
puppets & decor Roman Gurov (head), V. Kuranov, Oleg Masainov, Boris Karavayev
PIONEER No. 2
I am a plain old, ordinary #2 pencil.
All of you, of course, know me well,
you use me to write, and to draw,
but you are unaware of many amazing, even fantastical stories
that have happened to me.
The first story is called...
"The Capricious Cat".
She came up to me, once, just at the moment
when I was engaged in my favourite activity.
What are you doing, eh?
I'm drawing a house.
Look, here's the roof.
Here's the chimney on it.
This is the door.
And who are you drawing this house for?
For you, of course.
Yeah? But what will I do there?
You'll fire up the stove,
cook porridge.
And where's the window?
A cat needs a window to jump through.
Hm?
By all means:
here's a window for you.
One,
two,
three.
And where will I go on outings?
Right here:
This will be a garden.
Ooh!
What sort of garden is this?
There's nothing here!
Wait, wait...
Here's a flower bed with flowers.
Here's an apple tree with apples.
And here's a kitchen garden.
Here grow carrots,
and here grow cabbages.
Cabbages... do I look like a hare?
And where will I catch fish?
Huh?
- Fish? - Yes.
Right here.
And will there be birds?
I love birds.
There will be birds, yes.
Here's a hen for you,
and here's a rooster.
And who will guard my house?
Who will guard it?
Well...
...it will be guarded by...
...Bobik here.
- Woof! - Mew!
I do not like your house.
I don't want to live there, and that's that.
She left! Heh..
She left, as if someone offended her.
What a capricious cat!
And the second story is called...
"The Mouse and the Pencil"
In the evening, when everyone was already asleep,
in the room appeared...
Ah!
Right... everything's calm and quiet...
She's asleep.
They're also asleep.
Is that a wind-up, mechanical toy?
No, silly! That's a common mouse.
How lovely!
He appreciates it!
Oh!
And that was when he noticed me.
Hey, listen,
I'm now gonna drag you into my hole,
and there, I'm gonna...
Let me go, please.
I'm made of wood.
I can't be eaten.
I'm not going to eat you!
I'm going to gnaw you!
My teeth are always itching,
and I have to gnaw something, anything, all the time!
Oh!
Well then, uh...
...I ask, then...
...please let me draw something for the last time.
And then, then you can do what you like!
Well, okay, then...
...let it be so.
You draw something,
but afterwards, I shall still
gnaw you into tiny pieces!
That's a cheese!
Maybe...
....it's a cheese.
But of course it's a cheese!
Those are the holes in it!
Ah, cheese. A fine thing!
And that's an apple.
Yum. They're pretty tasty, they say...
Maybe.
I know what that is!
That's a sausage!
Ah, I've eaten that a thousand times...
Oh...
That looks so much like a c-c-c...
Oh-oh-oh, don't draw any more!
Don't you draw any more!
That's a real c-c-c...
...cat!
Mew!
Help!
Thank you so much!
You did your drawing!
Ever since, the mouse in that hole
hasn't even shown his nose in here!
The End
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