38 parrots by. Secrets of the cartoon “38 Parrots”: How Lenin became the prototype for one of the characters

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38 parrots (I'm crawling) - story by Grigory Oster

There is a well-known story about how a parrot, a monkey and a baby elephant measured the height of a boa constrictor. Another title of the work is “This is me crawling.”

38 parrots read

The boa constrictor leaned over the grass and looked at something. The monkey very carefully, on tiptoe, approached the boa constrictor and also looked. Something was crawling in the grass.

Crawling? - asked the monkey in a whisper.
“It’s crawling,” the boa constrictor sighed. - It’s crawling. Crawling.
- What is this crawling? - asked the monkey.
- It’s me crawling! - said the boa constrictor.
- You? - the monkey was surprised. -Where are you crawling?
- Here. “I’m crawling here,” the boa constrictor grumbled, taking his long, very 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 had known the boa constrictor for a long time, but she had not often seen the whole thing. Usually, when the boa constrictor was crawling somewhere or simply resting, at best, most of it was visible, and the rest lay somewhere in the grass or behind the bushes.
- Oh, boa constrictor! - the monkey admired. - What are you like!..
- 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 that myself,” sighed the disappointed boa constrictor. - Which one is long?
- Very long.
- Very? - The boa constrictor thought about it. - Hmm, very... No. Very - this is not it!
- What about something? - asked the monkey.
But the boa did not answer. He was very busy. By yourself. The boa constrictor watched carefully as his large body curled up into rings and then turned around so that fast waves ran from his head to the tip of his tail. It was immediately obvious that the boa constrictor was very worried.
- Why are you so worried? - asked the monkey.
- Wait, monkey, don’t interfere! - the boa constrictor responded. - I make a decision.
- Do you accept it? - the monkey was happy. -Are you taking it correctly? - she immediately became alarmed. “You can take it in different ways,” the monkey jabbered. - You can take a teaspoon every two hours, or you can take it twice a day before meals. How are you taking it?
- I already accepted! - said the boa constrictor. - I made a decision, I decided... to measure my height.
- Aaah! - said the monkey. - And I thought... - And then only the monkey realized what the boa constrictor said.
- Measure your height? - the monkey admired. - What a wonderful, what a wonderful decision! - And out of 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 may be the longest!
Many times longer than everyone else!
- Yes! - the boa constrictor sighed. - This is still unknown!
- How will you measure it, your height? - asked the monkey. - How?
“Honestly,” the boa constrictor admitted, “I don’t know a single way.” All of them, these methods, 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.
The rest is growth!
There is a lot of growth in the boa constrictor.
But how to measure this growth -
The head and tail don't know.
Finding out your height is not easy!
- Very difficult! - the boa constrictor sighed again.
- But no! - the monkey suddenly screamed. - I know how to measure your height!
- How? - the boa constrictor quickly asked.
- Very simple! - said the monkey. - We need to fold in half! Fold up!
The boa constrictor folded itself in half and placed its head next to its tail.
- So! - said the monkey, - fold again.
The boa constrictor folded into four. The monkey walked around the boa constrictor and thought.
- Well? - asked the boa constrictor impatiently.
- Now! - said the monkey. - Here is the head, and here is the tail! All clear!
- What is clear? - asked the boa constrictor.
- All! - said the monkey. - All clear! Your height will be two halves of you or four halves of your halves.
“Two halves... four... halves...” the boa constrictor tried to figure it out, but couldn’t figure it out. “No,” he said finally. - It won’t work that way!
- Why won’t it work? - the monkey was surprised.
- Because you can’t measure me by halves!
- 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 here? - asked the little elephant. -What are you doing here?
- We're measuring me! - explained the boa constrictor. - Only we don’t know how!
“When you don’t know how,” the little 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 baby elephant was embarrassed. - I better not. Let's better ask the parrot.
- Let's! - the parrot suddenly shouted, appearing out of nowhere in front of his friends. - Let's ask me! Ask!
- How to measure me? - asked the boa constrictor.
- Well... - said the parrot. - The growth of boa constrictors in most cases, as a rule, is measured... er... from the tail. What is this?
- It's his head! - explained the monkey.
- We don't need a head! - the parrot waved him off. - Give me the tail here!
The boa constrictor handed the parrot its tail.
“Now,” said the parrot to the boa constrictor, “leave your tail here, and crawl, crawl, until you stretch out to your full length.”
The boa constrictor crawled into the thickets, and its 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 disturb 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 little elephant asked the monkey, “is he already measuring it?”
-Are you already trying it on? - the monkey asked the parrot.
“Uh... uh... uh...” said the parrot. - The fact is that boas are usually 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 thicket.
- Call your head! - the parrot ordered.
- Useless! - said the monkey. - The head won't hear us. She's far away now. Boa constrictor, you know how long it is!
“Now I’ll run after her,” the little elephant suggested.
- It’s not worth it! - said the parrot. - It's a long walk. Better yet, let's pull its tail and the head will crawl back on its own.
The baby elephant, the monkey and the parrot grabbed the tail of the boa constrictor, and they all pulled the tail at once.

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

(Ill. E. Zapesochnaya)

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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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In recent years, the creator of popular puppet characters has been seriously ill. After the stroke, he did not leave the house at all, Interfax reports. A few days ago Ufimtsev fell into a coma. The animated film director died at the age of 83. The date and place of the funeral have not yet been specified.

Let us recall that Ivan Ufimtsev graduated from the Sverdlovsk film actor school, after which he tried his hand at the stage and film set. In the early 50s of the twentieth century, he went to the capital and entered the directing department of the State Institute of Theater Arts named after Lunacharsky.

Since 1963, Ufimtsev worked at the Soyuzmultfilm film studio, where he produced about 40 animated films., reports the business newspaper "Vzglyad". His most popular work is the film "38 Parrots", as well as other series about the adventures of the Monkey, the Elephant, the Boa Constrictor and the Parrot. Other famous cartoons by Ufimtsev were “Caution, Pike!”, “Cuckoo Clock”, “Hedgehog Plus Turtle”, “Three Little 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”, “Day Stars”, “The Investigation is Conducted by Experts. Shepherd with a Cucumber”, “In Love of His Own Will”, “According to Lopotukhin”, “A Lady’s Visit”, “The Tale of the Unextinguished Moon”, “ A man for a young woman" and others. Viewers also appreciated the appearance of Ufimtsev in the image of Alexander Suvorov in an advertisement for one of the banks.