First Lesson
About First Lesson
A swarm leaves the hive for a flower meadow. One bee flies to a clearing where a bear is teaching the cubs about honey: the bee stores it in wax cells, and bees can help or hurt. The cubs do not wait for the end of the lesson. They chase the bee to the hive, climb in, and take honey. She calls the swarm. They sting the cubs and drive them off. Back in the clearing, the lesson goes on, and the cubs know more about bees.
Cast & crew
More about First Lesson
Lamis Bredis directed. Vladimir Nemolyayev wrote it. Mikhail Starokadomsky wrote the music. Nikolai Prilutsky was sound director. A drawn Soyuzmultfilm short, 1948. Russian Wikipedia times it at 9 minutes 52 seconds.
Themes
Making
A nine-minute Soyuzmultfilm lesson in which the cubs learn the rest of the lecture from the stings.
Music
Mikhail Starokadomsky wrote the music.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The teacher's verse begins with the role of honey and the bee hiding sweetness in wax cells.
- Anatoly Velikhatko is credited on the Russian page among the crew.
- A file is on Wikimedia Commons as 1948. Первый урок.webm.
Scenes
- The cubs abandon the clearing and chase one bee to the hive.
- The swarm drives them off, and they sit down again for the rest of the lesson.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1948. Первый урок.webm)
