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Soyuzmultfilm production 1962
Creative Collective for puppet films

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Vladimir Mayakovsky

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The Flying Proletarian (1925) &
Screenplay "How are you?"('26-'27): ^,
March of the shock brigades('30): +,

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Proletarian, strangle the war in the bud ('24): #,
Poems à la Mayakovsky (A. Galich, '62): *

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Script writer Aleksandr Galich
Directors Iosif Boyarsky, Ivan Ivanov-Vano,
Art director Vadim Kurchevsky

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Camera Teodor Bunimovich
Music Revol Bunin
Sound Boris Filchikov

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Animators B Meyerovich, P Petrov,
V Shilobreyev, script editor N Abramova
Art assistant D. Gorbachyov, montage T. Sazonova

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Text read by B. Popov, puppets &
decor Roman Gurov, Oleg Massainov
Executive producer Natan Bitman

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[Mayakovsky]
[Pravda]
[Izvestiya]

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In "Pravda", the truth is written.

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In "Izvestya", there is news.

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Facts. You can take them
and put them on the table.

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But a poet is also interested in
what will happen in two hundred years

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or in a hundred.

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For decades
the pages
of all newspapers,

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are stuffed with death,
mutilation,
grief...

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But insignificant will
these slaughterhouses seem

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in comparison to
future phantasmagoria.

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#In the present,
the Great War has been summed up.

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#Memoirs are written by history's scribes.

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#But the pain of our loved ones,

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#is still screaming out to us from the dry figures.

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#30 million under arms
are but a molehill,

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#compared to hundreds of millions
moaning and howling.

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#Yet this hell will seem to be a child's rattle

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#compared to the coming war
that is just being prepared.

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*Don't do it! Stop!
Come to your senses, people!

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*I wave, like a banner, this line,

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*For a world in which there will be no war...

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*Yet I believe, I know - this will happen!

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There'll come some year with many zeros.

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The last battle-thunder
will have died down.

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In Moscow,
there will be no more
alleys & streets -

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only airfields and houses.

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*Human thought is
faster than light!

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*And the poet's thought
is faster yet!

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*Look at this fantasy
- a poet's jest

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*About a citizen's day
in the world of the future!

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"Eight o'clock" Screams
the radio alarm clock,
politely:

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"Comrade - get up,
Do not sleep again.
Work is calling!

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No special tasks for this alarm clock?

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Well, then goodbye.
Cheers!"

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Still a little drowsy
and not wanting to rush
the citizen tried to catch a flight.

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[Air-ball: Spartak vs. Dynamo
Venus stadium
Tickets for sale ----]

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Bearing the most
polite manner,

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The air-police
stopped our man.

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No report, nor a fine
followed...

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but just -
a polite
reprimand.

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Fifteen minutes.
it took -

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and the citizen
arrived
at his work.

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[Central Air Factory]

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The factory:
A building of 40 floors.

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Disembarked 40 men
of furious zeal.

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It's pure and clean -
neither smoke,
nor soot.

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An elevator
takes each man
to his floor.

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No noises, no crowds!

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One keyboard -
not unlike an "Underwood"*...
(*typewriter company)

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...type the letters needed,
and everything else
is done by motors.

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[Central Air Factory]

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Their product is
compressed air

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for interplanetary travels.

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A (Maggi like)cube per cabin
- of any width,

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and one breathes in
for 24 hours
the essence of pine.

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All prepare
for the gymnastics!

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The Central Milk Factory is at work

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Here, they produce
from clouds

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artificial sour cream and milk.

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Soon
we will forget
what a cow is called.

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Do you get this much
from a cow's udder anyway?

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[Milk]

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[Beer]
*Non-alcoholic!

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*From the shoemaker to the tailor -

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*No one can stand the smell of alcohol!

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Four hours
flash by in an instant.

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And each man - has air,
has sour cream, has milk...

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No chance to get drowsy
like sleepy owls.

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The working day
Is four hours!

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- How are you?
Good day.

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- Well, I've just left
my field's fences.

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...the wheat
is tormented by heat,

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so I'm managing
the artificial clouds

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I need to produce rain,

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But..
- without hail.
Goodbye!

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It's time for dinner! -

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No kitchen, no
domestic work!

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[Coffee & cake shop]

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Instead, there are flying
public diners,
[Dairy kitchen, Eastern kitchen]

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[Space kitchen]

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Go in, sit;
Take and eat.

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You can visit 2,
You can visit 5 -

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For any mood,
For any appetite.

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Next -
onto education.

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The citizen flies to the
higher learning institute
in just a minute.

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We have these days -
different categories of study,
[Academy, Laboratory]

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Let's say -
the wage class hauls,
while poetry's for more noble souls.

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But in the future, there will not be
more honorable
and less honorable...

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Shoemakers,
and dairy maidens -
will all be thought geniuses.

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Today
at school -
there's a practical lesson.

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Solve -
if there is
or there isn't a god.

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In our opinion,
religion is opium.

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We examined God's depictions -
divine copies.

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Then with the teacher
we fly for the heavens.
to decide for ourselves!

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The heavens we inspected
from the inside
and from the outside.

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No Gods,
nor Angels
were detected.

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^A man put on ice was found.

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^We thought to resurrect the individual.

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[Militarism. Colonialism.
Fascism. Racism.]

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- Hello!
I couldn't catch the name...

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Oh!
It's you!
Hello, my love!

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I'm leaving! Immediately!
In five minutes I'll have crossed the sky
to its full length.

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In this weather the going is easy

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Wait for me by the cloud -

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under the Great Bear.

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"Big Bear" Cultural park

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Alley of Astronauts

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Alley of Heroes of Communist Labor

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Finally -
in the future
it will be possible -

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to dance
across
the sky

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No stamping, no raising dust,

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gracefully arching one's wings,
they dance up a fantastic quadrille.

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[Chaikovsky, Dunaevsky, Brahms, J. Strauss, Gluck]
[Shostakovich, Bogoslovsky, Chopin, Lehar, Haydn]
[Prokofiev, Blanter, Ravel, Offenbach, Bach]
[Hachaturyan, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Kalman, Beethoven]

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Then the radio shouts:
- Citizens!
I remind you - it's time to sleep!

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Turning to his side
is the satisfied citizen,

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yawning and closing his eyelids.

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--- Like this will spend his days
the citizen
of the end of the XX century -

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*once the poet imagined this for fun!

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*But now, each of his fantasies
proves even more beautiful.

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*Over the horizon of fast-running years

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*Our future has already risen!

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[Vladimir Mayakovsky
1925
The Flying Proletarian]

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+Enthusiasm,
spreads and expands.
(program communist party) - [PEACE]

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+Victory shines more radiantly.
(Follow-up report comrade Khrushchev)
[WORK] - [FREEDOM]

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+Today communism is being built
[SACRIFICES] - [BROTHERHOOD]

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+Alive, Real, Joyful.
[HAPPINESS]

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The End
Subs by Lemicnor, Eus & Niffiwan, 2021