THE MAGIC SPECTACLES.
Based on Lilian Moore's story "The Owlet and the Spectacles"
Kievnauchfilm 1970
Grandpa Owl!
Grandpa Owl, grandpa Owl!
Grandpa Owl!
Hush, hush, hush... one at a time.
I'm not going to understand anything.
Grandpa Owl.
I saw the nuts first, they're mine.
But I was the first to run up to them.
That's why they're mine.
And how many nuts did you find?
A lot, a lot.
All right, all right, here's what you'll do:
You, redhead, take one peanut.
And you, greyhair, take the other.
And keep on doing that
until the nuts are all gone.
Oh, that's so simple.
Thank you, Grandpa Owl.
Well, and what are you after,
magpie?
I want to make myself a house.
And when I make that house,
I won't be able to look anywhere, but I need to see everything in the world.
Because magpies are very, very curious.
I know.
I know you magpies.
Build where the highest branch is,
then you'll see everything in the world.
Why are you sad, sparrow?
I'm not sad.
I'm just bored.
And actually, I want strawberries.
So fly to the vegetable garden!
And the scarecrow?
Are you afraid?
I'm not afraid.
I just don't want to get involved.
But the scarecrow isn't real.
Peck him,
and you'll see for yourself.
Ha, that's what I thought.
If the scarecrow was real,
it would have eaten all the strawberries itself.
How does grandpa know everything?!
Maybe his glasses are magic?!
Oh, indeed.
They're magic.
Now I'll know everything too!
Now I've got magic glasses, la la la la.
Envy me, envy me.
Pa-ba, pa-ba.
Take heed: whatever I take on,
I'll know everything, just like my grandpa.
Hey you, what are you fighting about?
I found the apple first.
No, I did!
Come on, you two, it's quite simple.
We've got to split the apple.
And how do you know that?
Ahh.
I have my grandfather's magic glasses.
Go ahead, split it.
This one's for you.
Here.
And this is for you.
But that's mine!
No, it's mine!
I have magic glasses, la la la la.
Envy, envy me.
Take heed: whatever I take on,
I'll know everything, just like my grandpa.
Wonderful magic glasses.
Wonderful magic glass... oops.
What are you falling here for?
What are you digging here for?
I'm digging a burrow.
Heh-heh.
Does one really dig a burrow?!
Burrows are built.
High up in a tree.
You can see everything up there.
But how do I get up there?
Let me help you out.
Don't go over there, that's where a wolf is sleeping.
You're scared... but he's not real.
He's a toy.
Come on, let's give him what for!
With a fist?
Yeah, with a fist.
You'll see for yourself.
Your glasses are broken.
And now you don't know anything?
Calm down, kid.
That has nothing to do with glasses.
Aren't the glasses magic?
director Yefrem (Ram) Pruzhanskiy screenwriter Vladimir Kapustyan art director Galina Babenko
composer Aleksandr Kanershteyn camera S. Nikiforov
sound I. Moyzhes script editor Svetlana Kutsenko
animators Yefrem (Ram) Pruzhanskiy, S. Berezovskaya, A. Karbovnichy, Ye. Peretyatko, Konstantin Chikin, N. Bondar
voices V. Bezruchko, Mihail Yanshin, A. Korolyov, Zhanna Pokulitaya, A. Mihailov, O. Deryazhnaya, Nina Gulyayeva
The End Subs by Eus (2024.12), rev. Niffiwan (2025.08), based on earlier Russian subs