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On Tuesday, the famous animated film director Ivan Ufimtsev, the author of the famous cartoons 38 Parrots and Losharik, died in Moscow.

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AT last years the creator of popular puppet characters was seriously ill. After a stroke, he did not leave the house at all, Interfax reports. A few days ago, Ufimtsev fell into a coma. Animated film director dies at 83 The date and place of the funeral has not yet been specified.

Recall that Ivan Ufimtsev graduated from the Sverdlovsk film actor school, after which he tried his hand on stage and on the set. In the early 50s of the twentieth century, he went to the capital and entered the directing department State Institute theatrical art named after Lunacharsky.

Since 1963, Ufimtsev worked at the Soyuzmultfilm film studio, where he made about 40 animated films., reports the business newspaper "Vzglyad". His most popular work is the tape "38 Parrots", as well as other series about the adventures of the Monkey, Elephant, Boa and Parrot. Ufimtsev's other famous cartoons were "Beware the Pike!", "Cuckoo Clock", "Hedgehog plus Turtle", "Three Frogs", "Losharik". For the animated film "Whose cones are in the forest?" the director received a Silver medal at the International Film Festival in Romania.

From time to time Ivan Ufimtsev also acted in films. He played roles in the films "Working Life", "Daytime Stars", "Experts are investigating. Shepherd with a cucumber", "In love of his own accord", "According to Lopotukhin", "Visit of a lady", "The Tale of the Unextinguished Moon", " A man for a young woman" and others. The audience also appreciated the appearance of Ufimtsev in the image of Alexander Suvorov in an advertisement for one of the banks.


The first part of a cycle of 10 short puppet cartoons "38 parrots" was released in 1976, more than one generation of children grew up on it, and Monkey, Parrot, Boa constrictor and Elephant are still among the most popular cartoon characters. When their creator was asked about the secret of such popularity, he replied that all these heroes have features of his acquaintances. And the most amazing thing was that one of these cute characters was a caricature of ... Lenin!



Once a children's writer Grigory Oster brought to the Soyuzmultfilm studio a script about the adventures of four funny characters - Monkey, Parrot, Boa constrictor and Baby Elephant. He himself believed that in every child there is something from each of these heroes, and the author had every reason to say so - after all, he himself was a father of many children. However, at the studio, none of the directors wanted to take on this script.



Director Ivan Ufimtsev admits that only a couple of phrases, at first glance, unremarkable, decided the fate of the script: “ I read one phrase: “Where are you crawling?” asked the Monkey. "Here. I’m crawling here, ”the Boa constrictor grumbled ...“ It would seem that nothing special, but I liked it so much! Just stunned how! And made a movie". Later, many phrases from this cartoon became winged, for example: “ Let's not say who, although it was an Elephant».



The production designer Leonid Shvartsman worked on the creation of the cartoon characters. The baby elephant seemed to him a smart, intelligent and absolutely positive hero, an excellent student, "the first student who diligently completes all tasks." There were no problems with the mischievous and cheerful Monkey, but with the Boa and the Parrot, I had to tinker. The artist said: Actually, I do not like snakes - neither live nor drawn. Therefore, he fought over the Boa constrictor for a terribly long time and unsuccessfully. The boa constrictor turned out to be angry and unattractive. Almost every day I went to the zoo and, no matter how unpleasant it was, I drew, painted and painted from nature. I learned a lot about snakes. Even this particular snake bite - when the lower lip comes over the upper one. But the image took shape only when I forgot about reality. He pulled out the boa constrictor's face, made a nose, painted freckles and eyebrows with a house. And also - I bloomed it with flowers ... That's when this character came out, a boa-thinker, a boa-philosopher, whom I consider my great luck».



In all the characters of the cartoon, human features were guessed, but if in the Elephant the audience could easily guess an exemplary excellent student, then it would hardly have occurred to any of them to compare the Parrot with ... Lenin! Of course, in the 1970s. no one knew about these parallels - otherwise the censorship simply would not have released the cartoon on the screens. But the resemblance was not obvious, and neither the censors nor the audience noticed it. And only in 2015, the production designer Leonid Shvartsman admitted that he conceived this character as a parody of the leader of the world proletariat and deliberately endowed him with “Leninist habits”: he is just as energetic, just as prone to demagogy, actively gesticulates and paces back -forward during a conversation, does not burr, but stutters on the letter "r", and its coloring creates the illusion that he is wearing a vest.





However, the scandal around Parrot flared up not at all because of his resemblance to Lenin. The fact is that initially he had a long tail, which really interfered when the character moved. The cartoon was puppet, and this created additional difficulties for the animators. Therefore, the tail was proposed to be removed. Leonid Shvartsman recalled: “ Since all alterations require money, a scandal erupted. And our director of the puppet association, long gone Iosif Yakovlevich Boyarsky, was simply hysterical, but this had to be done. As a result, the Parrot turned out to be on legs and began to pace and gesticulate very energetically. At first, he reminded us of our director Joseph Boyarsky. And then we saw in the gestures of the Parrot ... the energetic gestures of Lenin. And our multipliers began to play with him, as with a leader, a leader, a tribune. Hence such a complete image».





All the cartoon characters were voiced by well-known actors: Monkey - Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Elephant - Mikhail Kozakov, Boa constrictor - Vasily Livanov, Parrot - Vsevolod Larionov. True, in the series "The Great Closing" the Monkey spoke in the voice of Raisa Mukhametshina - Nadezhda Rumyantseva at the time of the cartoon's dubbing lived abroad with her diplomat husband Willy Khshtoyan.





The cartoon "38 Parrots" was such a success with the audience that it grew into a series that received many awards, among them were the first prizes at international festivals in Croatia and Portugal. However, Leonid Shvartsman still called the very first cartoon from this cycle the most successful: “ For me, that movie is the most interesting. The rest of the series follows him. Alas, this is the fate of the series. Everything that has been accumulated spills into the first film».




A lot of interesting facts left behind the scenes of the cartoon.

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38 parrots (This is me crawling) - a story by Grigory Oster

Known History about how a parrot, a monkey and a baby elephant measured the height of a boa constrictor. Another name for the work is This is me crawling.

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The boa constrictor bent over the grass and examined something. The monkey very carefully, on tiptoe, approached the boa constrictor and also looked. Something crawled in the grass.

Is it crawling? asked the monkey in a whisper.
“Crawling,” the boa constrictor sighed. - It's crawling. Creeps.
- And what is it crawling? - asked the monkey.
- I'm crawling! - said the boa constrictor.
- You? - the monkey was surprised. - Where are you going?
- Here. I'm crawling here, - the boa constrictor grumbled, pulling his long, long body out of the grass.

The monkey stepped back a little to look at the boa constrictor from the side. She was interested. She'd known the boa constrictor for a long time, but she didn't get to see it in its entirety very often. Usually, when a boa constrictor crawled somewhere or simply rested, it was visible at best most, and the rest lay somewhere in the grass or behind the bushes.
- Oh, boa constrictor! - admired the monkey. - What are you!..
- Which? - the boa constrictor became interested. He lowered his tail to the ground and turned to the monkey. - Which?
- Long! - said the monkey.
“I know this myself,” the disappointed boa constrictor sighed. - How long is it?
- Very long.
- Highly? - Boa thought. - Hmm, very… No. Very - it's not!
- What about something? - asked the monkey.
But the boa did not answer. He was very busy. By yourself. The boa constrictor watched him attentively big body sometimes it curls up into rings, sometimes it unfolds so that fast waves run from the head to the tip of the tail. It was immediately evident that the boa constrictor was very worried.
- What are you so worried about? - asked the monkey.
- Wait, monkey, don't interfere! - answered the boa constrictor. - I make a decision.
- Do you accept? - the monkey was delighted. - Are you taking it right? she immediately became alarmed. - You can take it in different ways, - the monkey chattered. - You can take a teaspoon every two hours, or you can take it twice a day before meals. How do you take it?
- I already accepted! - said the boa constrictor. - I made a decision, I decided... to measure my height.
- Ahh! - said the monkey. - And I thought ... - And then it just dawned on the monkey what the boa constrictor had said.
- Measure your height? - admired the monkey. - What a beautiful, what a wonderful solution! - And from admiration, the monkey even sang:
I decided to find out my height!
And in this, of course, he is right.
After all, this is very important!
It might be the longest one!
Many times longer than all!
- Yes! sighed the boa constrictor. - It's still unknown!
- How will you measure it, your height? - asked the monkey. - How?
“To be honest,” the boa constrictor admitted, “I don’t know any way. All of them, these ways, are unknown to me.
"So you don't know how to measure your height?" - the monkey was upset. And out of chagrin she even sang:
Here is the head, and here is the tail.
And the rest is growth!
There is a lot of growth in the boa constrictor.
But how to measure this growth -
They do not know the head and tail.
Knowing your height is not easy!
- Very difficult! sighed again.
- But no! - suddenly cried the monkey. - I know how to measure your height!
- How? - quickly asked the boa constrictor.
- Very simple! - said the monkey. - You gotta fold it in half! Stack up!
The boa constrictor folded in half and laid its head next to the tail.
- So! - Said the monkey, - Fold again.
The boa folded into four. The monkey walked around the boa constrictor and thought.
- Well? - the boa constrictor asked impatiently.
- Now! - said the monkey. Here is the head, and here is the tail! All clear!
- What is clear? - asked the boa constrictor.
- Everything! - said the monkey. - All clear! Your height will be two of your halves or four halves of your halves.
- Two halves ... four ... halves ... - the boa constrictor tried to figure it out, but did not figure it out. "No," he finally said. - That won't work!
- Why won't it work? - the monkey was surprised.
Because you can't measure me in half!
- Why not!
- Because I'm whole!
“Well, then I don’t know how,” the monkey was offended.
She turned away from the boa constrictor and saw a baby elephant.
- What happened to you here? - asked the baby elephant. - What are you doing here?
- We're measuring me! - explained the boa constrictor. We just don't know how!
- When you don't know how, - the baby elephant said thoughtfully, - you need to ask someone.
The monkey looked at the baby elephant very carefully and suggested:
- Let's ask you.
- I have? - the elephant was confused. - I better not. Let's ask the parrot.
- Let's! - the parrot suddenly shouted, appearing out of nowhere in front of his friends. - Let's ask me! Ask!
- How do I measure? - asked the boa constrictor.
- Well ... - said the parrot. - The growth of boas in most cases, as a rule, is measured ... er ... from the tail. What do you have?
- It's his head! - explained the monkey.
We don't need a head! the parrot waved. - Come here tail!
The boa extended its tail to the parrot.
“And now,” the parrot said to the boa constrictor, “leave the tail here, and crawl yourself, crawl until you stretch out to your full length.”
The boa constrictor crawled into the thickets, and his tail remained in front of the parrot. The parrot looked at this tail for a very long time.

The baby elephant and the monkey were afraid to interfere with the parrot. So they were very quiet. They stood side by side and also looked at the tail. Then they got tired of it.
- What do you think, - the baby elephant asked the monkey, - is he already measuring it?
Are you already measuring it? - the monkey asked the parrot.
- Eh ... eh ... eh ... - said the parrot. - The fact is that usually boas are measured from the tail. And our boa constrictor is measured the other way around. From the head. It's his tail, right?
- Yes! - said the monkey. - It's his tail. And the head is there! - and the monkey waved his hand towards the thickets.
- Call the head! - said the parrot.
- Useless! - said the monkey. - The head will not hear us. She is far away now. Boa constrictor, you know how long!
“Now I’m running after her,” suggested the baby elephant.
- Don't! - said the parrot. - Walk far. Better let's pull his tail, and the head itself will crawl.
The baby elephant, the monkey and the parrot grabbed the tail of the boa constrictor, and all at once pulled this tail.

We waited a bit and pulled again. Then a little more and pulled again. The boa constrictor's head did not crawl.
Why doesn't she crawl? - asked the baby elephant.
- What if ... What if ... - the monkey closed his eyes in fear. - But what if!..
- What "what if"? - asked the baby elephant.
- What if he broke? - shouted the monkey.
- Who?
- Boa constrictor! We pull it here, but it broke there!
- Ouch! - said the elephant.
- Exactly! - exclaimed the parrot. - Well, of course! We pull it, but it is torn - and the head knows nothing about its tail! Need to check!
The monkey, without saying a word, rushed into the thicket and rushed along the boa constrictor.
The baby elephant and the parrot rushed after her.
- Here he is whole. And here too, they said to each other. - And there. And here. And here is the whole.
- Here! - shouted the monkey. - Look! This place is quite fragile!
The baby elephant and the monkey grabbed the boa constrictor and began to pull it in different directions.
- No, - said the parrot. - This place is strong, probably, it was torn in another place. Let's move on.
And the boa constrictor's head lay in the bushes and listened to its feelings. The sensations were strange. Rather, at first there were no sensations.
“When will they start measuring me? thought the boa constrictor impatiently. “Why don’t they measure everything and don’t measure it?”
Finally, the boa constrictor felt that his tail was being pulled.
“Aha! thought the boa constrictor. - Start measuring!
Then the boa constrictor was satisfied with the fact that his tail was being pulled harder and harder.
"They're trying!" thought the boa constrictor.
Soon the boa constrictor noticed that it was no longer being pulled by the tail, but a little closer to the head.
“The tail has already been measured! thought the boa constrictor. - Moving on. Oh well!"
And then the boa constrictor began to feel that it was being pulled in different directions.
- Wow! - the boa constrictor raised his head. - Well, they got down to business!
While the boa constrictor was pulled, pulled, pushed and pinched in different places, he endured, but when the boa constrictor discovered that they began to tickle him, he could not stand it.
- Hee hee! he said to himself. - Ouch! Haha! Hee hee hee! Ho-ho-ho! Ho-ho-ho! Wow! Oho-ho! Looks like they got a little carried away! Ouch! Ouch! Oyo-yo!
The boa constrictor was terribly afraid of tickling. Since childhood. So he quickly turned around and crawled towards the monkey, the baby elephant and the parrot.
And the baby elephant, the monkey and the parrot were looking for and still could not find where the boa constrictor had broken. They had already reached the very middle, when a boa constrictor's head appeared from the thickets.
- Hee hee! - said the head. - What are you tickling?
We don't tickle, we check! - waved the monkey.
- What are you checking? - the boa constrictor was surprised.
- You, - said the parrot. - Suddenly you broke?!
- I? Torn? Where?! - the boa constrictor was horrified.
- In the middle, - the baby elephant sighed.
The boa constrictor rushed to its tail so quickly that it knocked the parrot off its feet a little.
We already checked there! the parrot called after him.
The boa rushed to the other side. He carefully examined himself up to the very neck and only then breathed a sigh of relief:
- Ugh! Whole!
- Whole! - the monkey was delighted. The baby elephant and the parrot were also very happy.


When everyone calmed down a little, the boa constrictor reminded that he did not at all ask to be checked, he asked to be measured.
- Now! - said the parrot. - I'm already starting. Now, boa constrictor, I will measure your height in parrots.
- In parrots? - the elephant and the monkey were surprised in chorus.
- Like this? - the boa constrictor was confused.
- Yes, - said the parrot. - How many parrots will fit in you, such is your height!
- Wow! - the monkey was horrified. - How much will fit!
- Really needed! - the boa constrictor was offended. - I won't swallow so many parrots.
- Why swallow! Firstly, you don’t need to swallow anyone, and secondly, one parrot is enough. Me.
“Well,” the boa constrictor said incredulously, “if you don’t need to swallow, then measure in parrots!”
The parrot took a step and stepped on the boa constrictor's tail.
- Ouch! - the boa constrictor said softly.
But the parrot took another step and followed the boa constrictor from tail to head.
The parrot walked and counted the steps. He said:
Once! Two! Left! Right!
Two by two! Very simple
Boas are measured -
Five five - Any height!
Having reached the head, the parrot jumped to the ground and told the boa constrictor:
- Your height will be exactly thirty-eight parrots! That's how tall you are!
- Wow! - admired the boa constrictor. - Thirty eight!
What else can be used to measure height? - the monkey asked the parrot.
- Everyone! - said the parrot.
- And monkeys can be?
- Can!
The monkey jumped up to the boa constrictor and began to tumble along it.
- One, two! - shouted the monkey, somersaulting. - Left, right! Twice ... - And then the monkey, which began to somersault from the head, did somersaults to the tail.
- Everything! - the monkey said disappointedly. - It's all over!
- Five monkeys! the parrot announced.
- And now ... let's baby elephants! - suggested the elephant.
The baby elephant stood near the tail of the boa constrictor, took a step and said: “One!”. Then he took another step and said, "Two." And when he said: "Two", he was already near the head of the boa constrictor.
- Two! - the elephant sighed. - Only two…
- Two baby elephants! the parrot announced.
- Hooray! - whispered a happy boa constrictor. - Hooray!!! he shouted at the top of his lungs. - Hooray!!! Wonderful! Just great! Thank you! Thank you friends! You, parrot! You, monkey! And you, baby elephant! Well, how would I measure my height, if not for you?!
- You would simply have absolutely nothing to measure it, your height! - said the parrot.
- And now, - said the boa constrictor, - now I know that my height ...
- Two baby elephants! - said the elephant.
- Five monkeys! - said the monkey.
- Thirty-eight parrots! - said the parrot.
- Ege! - the boa constrictor suddenly thought. - And in parrots, I'm much longer.

- Still would! - confirmed the parrot.
“Now,” exclaimed the boa constrictor, “when my grandmother arrives and says: Well, granddaughter, you seem to have grown up!” - I will answer her: "Yes, grandmother, I have grown." And I'll tell her my height in parrots!
- Wait, - the monkey was surprised, - what kind of grandmother are you talking about?

- About mine! - said the boa constrictor.
- Your grandmother will come to us here in Africa? asked the parrot.
- Will arrive!
- When will she arrive? - asked the baby elephant.
- Very soon! - said the boa constrictor.

(Illustr. E. Zapesochnaya)

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