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Subtitles for The Little Sparrow (1984)

English
June 02 2010 18:11:08
Created by Allie, Dennis Keen, Niffiwan₂
Vorobyishko.1984.en.1..1275502268.srt ⭳
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Subtitles made by Dennis Keen, using the 2003 translation by "Allie" from here), further edited by Niffiwan.

The original text cleverly makes the birds speak largely with "chee" sounds, which was only partially possible to reproduce in the translation.

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1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,073 Commissioned by the USSR State Committee on Television and Radio 2 00:00:05,094 --> 00:00:08,160 Sverdlovsk Film Studio 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:11,679 The Little Sparrow 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,480 Based on the story by A.M. Gorky 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:30,879 Once upon a time, there lived a yellow-beaked sparrow named Pudik. 6 00:00:31,056 --> 00:00:33,079 He had not yet tried to fly, 7 00:00:33,079 --> 00:00:37,542 but already he was flapping his little wings and poking his head out of the nest. 8 00:00:37,642 --> 00:00:41,680 He was very impatient to know what the outside world was like 9 00:00:41,679 --> 00:00:45,000 and whether it was good enough for him. 10 00:00:47,740 --> 00:00:50,364 Peeping at the ground, he chirped, 11 00:00:53,363 --> 00:00:55,039 "It's ch-err-ibly dark!" 12 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:30,200 "What, what?" asked Mother Sparrow. 13 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,605 "Ch-err-ibly dark!" 14 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:41,640 Then Father Sparrow came home with insects for Pudik and started boasting, 15 00:02:42,090 --> 00:02:45,560 Well, am I the chief or not? 16 00:02:49,159 --> 00:02:54,079 "The chief, the chief!" Mother Sparrow chirped approvingly. 17 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,089 But Pudik just swallowed the insects and thought to himself, 18 00:03:03,092 --> 00:03:08,640 "What're they boasting about? They gave me a leggy worm." 19 00:03:14,259 --> 00:03:16,000 "What a miracle!" 20 00:03:31,039 --> 00:03:33,599 "My child, my child" his mother chirped at him, 21 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:35,850 "Mind you don't fall out!" 22 00:03:35,849 --> 00:03:37,159 "Why, why?" 23 00:03:40,156 --> 00:03:42,319 "If you fall to the ground," 24 00:03:42,319 --> 00:03:44,609 "The cat will go - 'Chik'!" 25 00:03:45,606 --> 00:03:47,610 "and gobble you up!" 26 00:03:51,372 --> 00:03:54,120 his father explained, flying off on another hunt. 27 00:04:08,814 --> 00:04:10,680 And so the days went by. 28 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:15,120 Yet Pudik's wings were in no hurry to grow. 29 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,400 One day a strong wind sprang up. 30 00:04:19,500 --> 00:04:21,759 "Twee-ee-eet! Twee-ee-eet! What's this?" 31 00:04:21,759 --> 00:04:23,360 Pudik wanted to know. 32 00:04:23,439 --> 00:04:25,149 "It's the wind," 33 00:04:26,149 --> 00:04:27,680 "It might blow on you - chirik!" 34 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,980 "and you could fall to the ground, to the cat!" 35 00:04:37,379 --> 00:04:39,839 "Why are the trees swaying?" 36 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,029 "Let them stop swaying, and the wind will go away." 37 00:04:52,060 --> 00:04:54,889 His mother tried to explain that it wasn't like that, 38 00:04:54,892 --> 00:04:57,119 but he would not believe her. 39 00:05:01,019 --> 00:05:04,180 He had his own answer for everything. 40 00:05:10,269 --> 00:05:13,680 A man walked past the bath-house, swinging his arms. 41 00:05:18,028 --> 00:05:21,040 "The cat must have torn his wings off," 42 00:05:21,139 --> 00:05:23,269 "Only the bones remain." 43 00:05:31,259 --> 00:05:36,019 "That's a man. None of them have wings!" 44 00:05:36,024 --> 00:05:37,639 "But why?" 45 00:05:37,204 --> 00:05:39,759 "That's how they are." 46 00:05:39,759 --> 00:05:45,279 "All they can do is hop about on two legs, see?" 47 00:05:45,786 --> 00:05:47,899 "What twaddle!" 48 00:05:48,904 --> 00:05:51,059 "Everyone ought to have wings." 49 00:05:51,062 --> 00:05:53,449 "It can't be as fun on the ground as it is in the air!" 50 00:05:56,754 --> 00:06:00,000 "When I'm big and grown up," 51 00:06:00,761 --> 00:06:06,560 "I'll see to it that everyone can fly!" 52 00:07:02,033 --> 00:07:04,079 "An honor to meet you, an honor!" 53 00:07:05,661 --> 00:07:07,449 "Scram, scram!" 54 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:09,660 "Fly, Pudik, fly!" 55 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:14,079 cried the Mama bird as she was chased by the cat 56 00:07:16,220 --> 00:07:18,480 Fear lifted the little sparrow off the ground. 57 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,830 He took one jump, flapped his wings, and there he was on the window ledge. 58 00:07:25,322 --> 00:07:27,519 And after him came Mother. 59 00:07:27,259 --> 00:07:29,379 "Are you alive?" 60 00:07:29,675 --> 00:07:32,000 "Barely alive." 61 00:08:07,220 --> 00:08:10,220 So it came out all right in the end. 62 00:08:10,220 --> 00:08:12,450 Pudik learned how to fly, 63 00:08:12,639 --> 00:08:16,329 And learned he should always listen to his mother, 64 00:08:16,418 --> 00:08:20,139 and everything would be okay. 65 00:08:20,535 --> 00:08:25,400 Screenwriter: I. Alexandrova, Director: A. Karayev, Art director: V. Kurochkina 66 00:08:25,399 --> 00:08:30,810 Cinematographer: N. Gribkov, Composer: A. Nimenskiy, Animators: A. Karayev, V. Petkevich 67 00:08:31,814 --> 00:08:35,860 Artists: O. Minnebaeva, A. Petrov, N. Portnova, Sound engineer: L. Erykalova 68 00:08:35,855 --> 00:08:39,440 Editor: R. Shamrai, Narrator: V. Larionov, Script editor: I. Boguslavskiy 69 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,000 Production director - L. Slepneva 70 00:08:42,581 --> 00:08:44,820 The End.