Soyuzmultfilm presents
"Winnie-the-Pooh" after the tale by A. Milne
Screenwriters: B.Zakhoder, F. Khitruk
Director: F. Khitruk Composer: M. Vaynberg
Art directors: V. Zuykov, E. Nazarov
Camera: N. Klimova Sound operator: G. Martynyuk
Script editor: R. Frichinskaya
Assistants: V. Gilyarova, T.Dombrovskaya Editor: N. Mayorova
Animators: N. Bogomolova, S. Zhutovskaya
V. Kolesnikova, M. Motruk, G. Sokolskiy
Artists: O. Vorobyova, T. Kazantseva O. Kuprach, S. Mitrofanova
Voice artists: Winnie-the-Pooh - Y. Leonov
Piglet - I. Savvina Narrator - V. Osenev
Production director L. Butyrina
Chapter 1 - In Which We Meet Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Suspicious Bees
Long ago, I think last Friday,
lived a bear by the name of Winnie-the-Pooh
Why "by the name"?
Because over his door was a sign saying "Winnie-the-Pooh",
and he lived by it.
Once, Winnie-the-Pooh went into the forest to get a bite to eat.
He never objected to getting a bite to eat.
Besides this, he was a poet who composed poems in his free time.
and even songs... not unlike these ones:
If I scratch my head at times, it's no fright.
I have sawdust in my head, that's quite right.
But though sawdust's all that's there,
cry- and wail-poems very fair
(and noise-, huff- and bawl- poems, also fair)
with some skill I sometimes can write.
Right.
Winnie-the-Pooh's life right now is very sound!
That is why he sings all of these songs out loud!
And he'll always be a winner
as long as he gets no thinner
and of course he'll get no thinner...
as long as he gets his bite to eat on time.
Right.
Ridiculously High Oak
This "buzz" is no accident.
The tree itself cannot "buzz".
So the buzz must be someone else's.
Yet why would you buzz if you're not a bee?
I think that's so.
And why do bees exist?
For making honey.
I think that's so.
And why does honey exist?
For me to eat it.
I think that's so.
Never, not for any reason, Would we bears, if we were bees,
Even in the finest season, Build our homes in such high trees
Bears like honey quite a lot.
What a riddle! Someone ought
To find out exactly why
They so love a good supply.
Mommy!
And so, Winnie-the-Pooh went to his best friend Piglet,
who lived in a house with a sign saying "Trespassers Will".
But the question of who exactly was Trespassers Will
was puzzling even to Piglet.
Good morning, Winnie-the-Pooh!
Good morning, Piglet.
I wonder... if you've got a balloon about you?
A balloon?
Yes.
I was just walking by and thinking:
Would Piglet happen to have a balloon about him?
What do you need a balloon for?
Honey.
What?
Honey.
Who goes to get honey with balloons?
I go.
Well, it just happened that Piglet had been visiting Rabbit
and there he had been given two wonderful balloons:
a green one and a blue one.
Which one do you like better?
It's like this:
when you go after honey,
the main thing is for the bees not to notice you.
If the balloon is green, they might think it's a leaf,
and not notice it.
And if the balloon is blue,
they might think it's just a part of the sky
and also not notice anything.
Do you think they might notice you underneath the balloon?
They might or they might not.
I shall try to look like a small black cloud.
That will deceive them.
Then you had better have the blue balloon.
We're on our way with Piglet; it's a secret where we'll go!
And we won't tell a living soul, oh no, oh no, oh...
yes.
Have you an umbrella?
An umbrella?
You see, I was just thinking:
should we not grab an umbrella just in case?
You never can tell with bees.
We're on our way with Piglet; it's a secret where we'll go!
And we won't tell a living soul, oh no, oh no, oh...
yes. Hold this.
There. Now I really do look like a small black cloud.
We're on our way with Piglet; it's a secret where we'll go!
And we won't tell a living soul, oh no, oh no, oh...
Yes?
No.
Inflate the balloon.
Let go!
Hurrah!
Isn't that fine?
Well, who do I look like now?
Like a bear flying under a balloon.
Not like a small cloud?
No. Not really.
Well, maybe from up here it looks different.
Who can tell what these bees will think?
Piglet!
What?
I think the bees suspect something!
What sort of thing?
I don't know. But they seem suspicious!
Perhaps they think that you're after their honey?
Piglet!
I think they don't see me as a small black cloud.
What shall we do?
Open the umbrella and walk up and down with it.
I shall sing a Little Cloud Song,
And you look at me and remark:
"Tut-tut, it looks like rain."
Tut-tut, it looks like rain.
A little, little cloud am I, and not at all a Bear!
How sweet to be a cloud floating in the air!
Piglet!
What?
I've been thinking, and I now understand everything!
These are actually the wrong sort of bees.
Completely wrong!
And they probably make the wrong sort of honey!
I... I'm coming down.
But how?
I haven't thought about that yet.
Piglet!
What?
Have you got a rifle at home?
Yes.
Bring it quick!
It's so peaceful in the sky; The troubles don't last long.
And that's why every little cloud Sings such a joyful song.
Ow, Piglet!
I'm here!
Shoot!
What are you shooting at?
At the bees, of course!
No, forget the bees! You must shoot the balloon!
But... if I shoot the balloon... it will be spoiled.
And if you don't, I shall be spoiled.
Did I miss?
You didn't exactly miss,
but you missed the balloon.
I'm very sorry.
Perhaps this is why, though I would not vouch for it,
he was named "Winnie-the-Pooh".
Isn't it time for us to get a bite to eat?
I think it is.
Well, that's the end of the tale.
Or rather that's the end of this one.
But there are others.
About Pooh and Rabbit,
about Piglet and that old grey donkey, and about all the others.
The End Subtitles by Niffiwan