THE MAGIC SPECTACLES
Based on Lilian Moore's story "The Owlet and the Spectacles"
Creative Collective for Fictive Animation of the Kiev Studio of Popular Science Films, 1970
Grandpa Owl!
Grandpa Owl, grandpa Owl!
Grandpa Owl!
Hush, hush... one at a time.
I don't know what's going on.
Grandpa Owl.
I saw the nuts first, they're mine.
But I was the first to run up to them.
So they're mine.
And did you find many nuts?
Many, many.
All right, then, here's what you should do:
You, redhead, take one nut.
And you, greyhair, take another.
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 if I make that house, I won't be able to see anything,
but I must see everything in the world,
Because we magpies are very, very curious.
I know.
I know you magpies.
Build it on the highest branch,
then you'll see everything in the world.
Why are you so sad, sparrow?
I'm not sad, really.
I'm just bored.
And really, I want strawberries.
So fly to the vegetable garden!
And the scarecrow?
Are you afraid?
I'm not really afraid.
I just don't want to get involved.
But you know, eh... that scarecrow
isn't real.
Peck it,
and you'll see for yourself.
Ha, that's what I thought, really!
If the scarecrow was real,
it would have eaten all the strawberries itself!
How does grandpa know everything?
Maybe, his spectacles are magic!?
Oh, it's true.
They're magic.
Now I'll know everything too!
Now I've got magic spectacles on me, la la la la.
You squirrels and you beetles, envy me.
I'll put them on and say: "Hup-two, hup-two!"
Like Grandpa Owl, I'll know just what to do!
I've got fab magic spectacles on me!
I've...
Hey you,
why are you fighting?
I found the apple first.
No, I did!
Come on, you guys, this is really simple.
You've got to split the apple.
And how do you know that?
Heh.
I have my grandfather's magic spectacles.
Go ahead then, split it.
This one's for you.
And this...
And... and this one's for you.
But that's mine!
No, it's mine!
Now I've got magic spectacles on me, la la la la.
You squirrels and you beetles, envy me.
I'll put them on and say: "Hup-two, hup-two!"
Like Grandpa Owl, I'll know just what to do!
I've got fab magic spectacles on me!
I've got... oh.
What are you falling here for?
And what are you digging here for?
I'm digging a burrow.
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?
All right, come on, I'll help.
Hey, you! Why are you trembling?
Don't go that way, a wolf is sleeping there.
Ha-ha, you're all scared... but he's not real.
He's artificial.
Come on, let's give him what for!
With a fist?
With a fist!
You'll see for yourself.
Grandpa,
your spectacles have br... br... broken.
No you won't know anything.
Calm down, kid.
The spectacles have nothing to do with it.
But aren't the spectables ma... magic?
screenwriter Vladimir Kapustyan director Yefrem (Ram) Pruzhanskiy art director Galina Babenko
composer Aleksandr Kanershteyn camera S. Nikiforov
sound I. Moyzhes script editor Svetlana Kutsenko
animators Konstantin Chikin, Yefrem Pruzhanskiy, N. Bondar, Ye. Peretyatko, Ya. Berezovskaya, A. Karbovnichiy
voices L. Ignatenko, N. Molchanova, B. Brondukov, V. Korshun production director Ivan Mazepa
assistants R. Lumelskaya, O. Deryazhnaya, Zh. Pokulita, A. Korolyov
production director Ivan Mazepa
The End
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