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The Russian State Film Fund
(Gosfilmofond) presents

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The 3rd color animated film from film
studio "Mosfilm" using the 3-color
process of Pavlov Mihaylovich Mershin,

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"THE TALE OF THE FISHERMAN AND THE FISH"
was released on 3 November 1937

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The color version was restored in 2010
from the original color-separated
film negatives

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from the collection
of the Russian State Film Fund

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Film-Studio "Mosfilm"
1937
a 3-dimensional animation

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Screenwriter and director of the
production - Aleksandr Ptushko
assisted by G. Yelizarov, N. Kuznetsov

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art-director - P. Bazhenov
music - Leonid Shvarts

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camera - Fyodor Firsov
sound - Vyacheslav Leshchev

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animators - Mariya Benderskaya,
A. Vasilyeva, A. Vesyolova, V. Krylov,
B. Nevezhin, K. Nikiforov

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puppets - N. Gekhtman, A. Pavlova,
V. Chernihova, Ye. Shirkova
Background art - M. Speranskiy

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Color filming using the method
of operator P.M. Mershin

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A. S. Pushkin
1799-1837

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The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish

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There once lived an old man with his old wife
on the shore of the deep blue ocean;

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They lived in a tumble-down hovel
For thirty-three summers and winters.

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The old man used to fish for his living.
And his wife spun yarn on her distaff.

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"Put me back, old man, into the ocean!

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I will pay you a right royal ransom,

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I will give you whatever you ask me."

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"God bless you, my dear little goldfish!

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Thank you kindly, I don't want your ransom.

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Go back to your home in the ocean,

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And roam where you will without hindrance."

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"I did not dare take her ransom;

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So I let her back into the sea."

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"Oh you simpleton! Oh you great dimwit!

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Couldn't make a mere fish pay
a ransom!

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You at least might have asked for
a wash-tub -

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For ours is all falling to pieces!"

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"What is it, old man, you are
wanting?"

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"Forgive me, Your Majesty Goldfish!

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My old woman has scolded me roundly,

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Won't leave me alone for a minute,

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She says that she wants a new
wash-tub,

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For ours is all falling to pieces."

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"Do not worry, go home, God be
with you -

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Very well, you shall have a new
wash-tub."

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"Oh you simpleton! Oh you great dimwit!

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To ask for a tub - a mere wash-tub!

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What good can you get from a wash-
tub?

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Return to the goldfish, you dimwit,

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Bow down low and ask for a cottage."

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"Oh you simpleton! Oh you great dimwit!

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To ask for no more than a cottage!

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Go and bow to the goldfish, and tell it

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That I'm tired of being a peasant,

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That I want to be made a fine lady."

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"What is it, old man, you're wanting?"

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"Forgive me, Your Majesty Goldfish!

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My old woman is madder than ever,

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Says she's tired of being a peasant,

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And wants to be made a fine lady."

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"Greetings, your ladyship, greetings,
fine lady!

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Now I hope that your soul is
contented!"

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"Go. Bow to the goldfish and
tell it

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I'm tired of being a lady,

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And I want to be made a Tsaritsa."

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"Woman, you've surely gone
crazy!

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"How dare you, muzhik, stand and
argue,

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Stand and argue with me, a fine lady?

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Go at once - if you don't, then I
warn you,

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You'll be dragged to the shore,
willy-nilly."

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"Forgive me, Your Majesty Goldfish!

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Again my old woman's gone crazy!

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Now she's tired of being a lady!

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She wants to be made a Tsaritsa."

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"Do not worry, go home, God be with you!

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Very well! She shall be a Tsaritsa!"

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"Greetings, Oh mighty Tsaritsa!

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Now I hope that your soul is contented!"

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"Go, bow to the goldfish, and tell it

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That I'm tired of being Tsaritsa,

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Of the seas I want to be mistress,

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With my home in the blue ocean waters;

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The goldfish I want for my servant

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To do my commands and my errands."

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"Forgive me, Your Majesty Goldfish!

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What shall I do with my cursed old
woman?

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She is tired of being Tsaritsa,

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Of the seas she now wants to be
mistress,

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With her home in the blue ocean
waters;

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She wants you to be her own servant,

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To do her commands and her errands."

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And behold - there again stood his hovel;

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On the doorstep sat his old woman,
With the same broken wash-tub before her.

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The End
Subs by Eus

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Restored by mixing colors drawn from the
original negatives, the original film
and digital frame by frame
reconstruction by Nikolay Mayorov

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Rare film material scanned by
Vladimir Kotovskiy

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The Russian State Film Fund
2010