Pilot Moscow Animation Studio
(subtitles by Niffiwan)
I Can Hear You
based on the motives of Dr. Seuss's tale
Pardon, I don't follow. Did someone call me?
I say... I've never heard tell Of a small speck of dust that is able to yell.
I hear a voice down there. A person, though she may be small as a hair.
And you know what's more, Quite likely there's two. Even three. Even four.
That dust speck is small, a person could never have lived there at all.
And why, to be frank and fair, should anyone chance to live there?
Let an ant's eye be bigger than you,
yet a person's a person, I think that is true.
Feed them.
Enough, enough! To the windmill!
Go! Go!
Yes, yes.
Let an ant's eye be bigger than you,
if that really is true, I still won't leave you.
Right...
Just between us, here's the word:
Elephant Horton's gone mad! Have you heard?
His trunk holds a clover.
What an unseemly look!
He walks with a dusk speck...
and talks to it too!
But that's not just a plant, that's no simple creation,
There are people down there! A whole population!
It scares me to think that an entire nation
will fall to the ground from such great elevation!
Try and find it now!
After a year, I'll come visit you.
My friends... where are you?
Are you here... or not?
Do you live? Are you well?
I await your reply!
My friends! Are you well? Have you not fallen sick?
They wanted to separate us with that trick.
What unthinking animals we come across.
I would not have recovered from such a great loss!
I ran after you all day and all night.
That terrible eagle would not help my plight.
But that's all in the past. Let's go home; we've pulled through.
I'll put on some spring water tea just for you.
What, is our company so appalling?
You've thought to restart your ridiculous calling?
Why've you gone through that unpleasant trek,
just so that you can converse with a speck?
And I, Kangaroo, will tell you once more,
that our peace-loving jungle won't withstand any more.
Stop this ridiculous game of yours.
Or we'll make you fall!
Tie you up!
Cage you in.
And show you clearly just what we mean.
And since you refuse to admit to your foil,
your speck must boil in a pot of nut oil.
Must boil in a pot of nut oil? For shame.
You'll hear them soon; see that this is no game.
Make noise, make clatter, holler and yell
or real misfortune will visit your land
to boil this dust speck these others demand.
I hope you have heard the sound of that horde.
Not at all.
Not a sound!
Company, for-ward!
It's not quite enough for their thick ears.
But I ask you not to give up, my dears!
Just raise your voices a little bit higher, and they wouldn't dare boil you over a fire.
Please look around, check all your boys,
Are doing their best? Are they ALL making noise?
Or maybe someone over there is shirking? Not yelling, not banging, not...
In order to rule out this worst of all ends,
I beg of you: find the loafer, friends.
There are people!
There are persons!
A whole population!
Let an ant's eye be bigger than you,
yet a person's a person, I think that is true.
Screenplay and director A. Karayev
Russian translation T. Makarova
Art director V. Olshvang
Artist T. Volkova
Camera operators S. Reshetnikov N. Gribkov
Composer V. Belov
Animators: S. Aynutdinov, N. Belikova A. Yevladov, A. Karayev
In-betweeners: D. Geller T. Danilenko, E. Pasumanskaya
Voices: Yu. Alekseyev, L. Gritsaychuk L. Teplova, D. Shilko
Sound operator N. Shestakova
Script editor L. Putyatina
Music recorded at "Studio 8" in Yekatenburg
Production managers V. Khizhnyakova V. Cheremnykh
THE END (C) Moscow animation studio "Pilot" 1992