Merry-Go-Round No. 7 A children's animated magazine
On the merry-go-round, storytelling's begun.
On it, stories, songs and cheers abound!
On the merry-go-round we will feel joy and fun,
Take a ride upon our merry-go-round!
camera Mihail Druyan
sound Vladimir Kutuzov
montage Lyubov Georgiyeva
ass. director O. Apanasova ass. art director Nina Nikolayeva ass. camera I. Peterson
animators Elvira Avakyan, Olga Novoselova, Aleksandr Mazayev,
Nataliya Bogomolova, Yuriy Batanin, Vladimir Palchikov, Inna Zaruba
script editor Arkadiy Snesarev
production director Lyubov Butyrina
The Silly Horse
song by Vladimir Shchukin based on the poem by Vadim Levin
director & art director Galina Barinova
There was a horse once who bought four galoshes.
A horse? Bought four galoshes?
A pair of nice ones, and a pair of worse ones.
A pair of nice ones, and a pair of worse ones?
There was a horse once who bought four galoshes.
Well, well!
If the day's weather was sunny and pleasant,
The horse would walk in galoshes... - The horse in galoshes?
The horse in galoshes.
The horse would walk in the nicer galoshes. - Oho!
Well, well!
When the first snow would fall down from the heavens -
The horse would go out...
- ...in the nice galoshes! Yes? - No!
The horse would go out in the worse galoshes.
When the streets filled with big puddles to splash,
The horse would wear...
- ...would wear its galoshes! Yes? - No.
The horse would wear not a single galosh!
What?
Just so.
Why, silly horse, do you spare your galoshes?
Shouldn't you value your health a bit more?
"The Little Hippo" based on the story by Emma Moshkovskaya
screenwriter, director, artist Eduard Nazarov
art director Vladimir Palchikov composer Oleg Yanchenko
voice artist Lev Lyubetskiy
There walked a little hippo.
[Elephant]
[Caterpillar]
All by his lonesome.
Completely alone.
And when he met many many ants,
and saw how merrily they bustled about, he thought:
"Why, of course; there are so many of them.
But little hippos...
imagine if there were as many little hippos as there are ants!
If they were all together, in one pile,
just imagine what sort of crash and clatter it would be!
And roaring and racket! And wham and ker-whallop!
and a terrible to-do!"
And, having thought about that, and having imagined what that would be like,
the little hippo moved on.
All by his lonesome. Completely alone.
A bit further on, there were bees.
There were very many of them as well.
There was only a wee bit fewer of them than there were ants.
They merrily buzzed,
and they were all together, and they were afraid of no-one!
"Ah, if only there were as many little hippos, as there are bees..."
thought the little hippo.
"No! This is impossible.
This would be crash and clatter!
And roaring and racket! And a big ker-whallop!"
And the lonesome little hippo, all alone, moved on.
Then he saw bunnies.
There were, perhaps, not so many of them: only a hundred!
Ah, how merry they were! How merry they were!
But a hundred little hippos? No.
And the little hippo sadly moved on.
One little hippo. All by his lonesome.
Completely alone.
Further on there were chicks.
15 fuzzy chicks, who were having the time of their lives!
They chirped together, pecked together, hopped together,
and bounced together!
But 15 little hippos...
Imagine the crash and clatter, and roaring, and racket!..
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
And just then, there appeared another little hippo.
All by his lonesome, completely alone.
But one little hippo plus one little hippo
makes two little hippos!
Two friends!
And this was so nice, so nice,
that it was simply wonderful!
And yet... very, very quiet.
Only sometimes,
only rarely,
only just seven days in a week
would there be crash and clatter, and roaring and racket,
And a big ker-whallop, and hair standing on end!
And thunder and lightning! And quaking of the earth!
But it would be so wonderful!
The End
Subtitles by Niffiwan (2025.12) @ animatsiya.net, intro song partly from LalaHeb on lyricstranslate