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In this article we will look at the summary of the book “Dunno on the Moon”. This work is familiar to many of us from childhood - someone read it, someone watched the excellent film adaptation. Today, stories telling about the adventures of Dunno are just as popular among the younger generation.
About the product
“Dunno on the Moon” (a brief summary below) is part of a series of books telling about the adventures of Dunno. The genre of the work is defined as a fairy tale novel. The book is the final part of the series, which included “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” and “Dunno in the Sunny City.”
The work was originally published in parts from 1964 to 1965 in the magazine “Family and School”. The book was published separately in 1965.
Nosov, “Dunno on the Moon”: summary
The events of the book take place two and a half years after the shorties visited Sunny City.
Scientists Fuchsia and Herring from Sunny City, together with Znayka, visited the Moon. After that, Znayka wanted to fly on her own. The idea aroused the interest of all residents and astronomer Steklyashkin. Meanwhile, Znayka composed an entire book in which he outlined his version of the origin of lunar craters. Among other things, the scientist argued that life is possible inside the Moon. Everyone laughed at this statement of Znayka, and no one believed him.
From the Moon, the scientist grabbed a small piece of local rock, which glowed at night. Somehow Znayka accidentally put it together with a piece of magnetic iron ore, and then in the house where he and several other shorties lived, miracles began to happen, the reason for which was... weightlessness. Resilient residents tried to adapt to it, even prepared lunch.
After the reason for what happened became clear, everyone again began to respect Znayka. Having opened the zero-gravity device, the short ones began to build a spaceship to fly to the Moon. As a gift to the lunar inhabitants, they loaded the seeds of giant plants into the rocket. It was decided not to take Donut and Dunno with us. Therefore, the night before departure, they snuck into the rocket to hide there, but accidentally pressed the launch button and flew away together.
Once on the Moon, the short guys put on spacesuits and went to explore its surface. By chance, Dunno fell into a tunnel and found himself inside the Moon.
Meeting Moon People
It turns out that Znayka was right, and short people really live under the surface of the Moon, but they are very different from the inhabitants of the Flower City. The social structure of the Moon is very similar to ours on Earth. Of course, the author touches on social issues in the novel “Dunno on the Moon.” The summary immediately shows how very different these worlds are - the world of Dunno and the world of the inhabitants of the Moon. In addition to purely external differences - small plants, smoking factories, skyscrapers and television - there are also significant internal ones.
So, finding himself in a strange world, Dunno got hungry and decided to go eat at the first cafe he came across. And when the little guy had eaten his fill, the waiter began to demand money from him, but Dunno didn’t have any, moreover, he didn’t even know what it was. So our hero ended up in jail. It had its own system for sorting prisoners, for example, according to the size of the nose, head, height, etc. After all the measuring procedures, Dunno was mistaken for a wanted recidivist thief.
Here, in jail, Dunno learns what money is and learns the basics of survival in a capitalist society. A cellmate tells him about the Island of Fools, where all lawbreakers are exiled, and from where no one returns. Our hero, in turn, talks about his homeland and giant plants, but no one believes him.
Immediately Dunno makes friends with Kozlik. The two of them are released. Before leaving, Mig, one of the prisoners, asks them to give a letter to someone outside. Kozlik and Dunno go to the shop owner Julio, to whom the message is addressed. As a result, Mig, Julio, Kozlik and Dunno conceive a joint-stock Society of Giant Plants. They are going to sell shares in order to use the proceeds to build a rocket and pick up seeds from the lunar surface. At least that's what Dunno thinks.
Bankruptcy of the Company
We continue to retell the summary of Nosov (“Dunno on the Moon”). Dunno is shown on television and presented as an astronaut; of course, everything is done in order to sell shares. Only the poor buy them, spending their last savings. The industrial magnate Spruts begins to take an interest in society; it is not in his interest for the poor to receive the seeds of giant plants. This could bankrupt him. Then Spruts decides to offer the founders a bribe. At the same time, he does not give away his own money, but the money collected by the rich people of the Moon. Julio and Mig immediately agree, but do not tell Dunno and Kozlik anything. Soon the public will learn about the escape of two founders and the bankruptcy of the Society. Because of this, Dunno and Kozlik have to flee to another city.
Fool's Island
Dunno faces many new troubles on the Moon. The summary tells about the wanderings of the hero and Kozlik - they have to spend the night in cheap hotels, more like prisons (with fleas, cockroaches and bedbugs). There is little money, and they take on any job. The goat starts to get sick. Dunno has to work and look after a friend. The hero walks dogs, but loses his job when the pets' owner finds out that he took them to a terrible hotel, where Dunno and Kozlik lived. As a result, the friends end up under the bridge, since there is no money left for a hotel. They are arrested and sent to Stupid Island.
At first, the friends decided that they had settled down perfectly. But later Dunno noticed that Kozlik was gradually turning into a sheep.
Donut Adventures
The characters created by N. Nosov (“Dunno on the Moon”) were quite interesting and different from each other. The summary now takes us back to the beginning of the work, but this time we learn about the adventures of Donut. After Dunno disappeared, Donut stayed on the rocket until the food ran out, and then went in search of his friend.
He falls inside the Moon and finds himself on the seashore, where there is a lot of salt, but the inhabitants do not use it. Donut starts his own business - he starts selling salt, and quickly gets rich. But other rich people begin to reduce the price of salt, and Donut goes bankrupt. As a result, he is forced to do the hard work of turning
Denouement
The book “Dunno on the Moon” is coming to an end, the summary of which we have almost discussed. Now the story moves to Earth. Having discovered that there is no rocket, Znayka builds another rocket, and the shorties go to the Moon. The spaceship ends up inside the Earth's satellite. Here, residents of the Flower City learn about the Society and distribute free seeds, while trying to find Dunno and Donut.
The runts from Earth give zero-gravity devices to the poor as protection from the police. Worker uprisings begin all around. Donut, having heard about the astronauts, goes to them. After this, they manage to save Dunno from Stupid Island.
Sprouts and Julio blow up the earthlings' rocket, but the shorties reach the surface of the Moon, where the first rocket stood, and fly home.
This is how the summary of the story “Dunno on the Moon” ends.
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PART I
Chapter first. How Znayka defeated Professor Zvezdochkin
Two and a half years have passed since Dunno traveled to the Sunny City. Although for you and me this is not so much, but for little runts, two and a half years is a very long time. After listening to the stories of Dunno, Knopochka and Pachkuli Pestrenky, many of the shorties also made a trip to the Sunny City, and when they returned, they decided to make some improvements at home. Flower City has changed since then so much that it is now unrecognizable. Many new, large and very beautiful houses appeared in it. According to the design of the architect Vertibutylkin, even two revolving buildings were built on Kolokolchikov Street. One is five-story, tower-type, with a spiral descent and a swimming pool around (by going down the spiral descent, one could dive straight into the water), the other is six-story, with swinging balconies, a parachute tower and a ferris wheel on the roof. A lot of cars, spiral vehicles, tube planes, aerohydromotos, tracked all-terrain vehicles and other various vehicles appeared on the streets. 
And that's not all, of course. Residents of the Sunny City learned that the short guys from the Flower City were engaged in construction, and came to their aid: they helped them build several so-called industrial enterprises. According to the design of the engineer Klepka, a large clothing factory was built, which produced a wide variety of clothes, from rubber bras to winter fur coats made of synthetic fiber. Now no one had to slog with a needle to sew the most ordinary trousers or jacket. At the factory, everything was done for short machines. Finished products, as in Sunny City, were distributed to stores, and there everyone took what they needed. All the concerns of the factory workers boiled down to coming up with new styles of clothes and making sure that nothing was produced that the public did not like.
Everyone was very pleased. The only one who suffered in this case was Donut. When Donut saw that he could now buy any thing he might need from the store, he began to wonder why he needed all that pile of suits that had accumulated in his home. All these costumes were also out of fashion, and they could not be worn anyway. Choosing a darker night, Donut tied his old suits in a huge knot, secretly took them out of the house and drowned them in the Cucumber River, and instead of them he got himself new suits from the stores. It ended up that his room turned into some kind of warehouse for ready-made clothes. The suits were in his closet, on the closet, on the table, under the table, on bookshelves, hanging on the walls, on the backs of chairs, and even under the ceiling, on strings.
Such an abundance of woolen products in the house infested moths, and to prevent them from gnawing the suits, Donut had to poison them daily with mothballs, which gave such a strong smell to the room that it knocked the unusual little man off his feet. 
The donut itself smelled of this stupefying smell, but he got so used to it that he even stopped noticing it. For others, however, the smell was very noticeable. As soon as Donut came to visit someone, the owners immediately began to feel dizzy from stupor. The donut was immediately driven away and all the windows and doors were quickly opened wide to ventilate the room, otherwise you could faint or go crazy. For the same reason, Donut didn’t even have the opportunity to play with the shorties in the yard. As soon as he went out into the yard, everyone around them began to spit and, holding their noses with their hands, rushed to run away from him in different directions without looking back. Nobody wanted to hang out with him. Needless to say, this was terribly offensive for Donut, and he had to take all the costumes he didn’t need to the attic.
However, that was not the main thing. The main thing was that Znayka also visited the Sunny City. There he met the little scientists Fuchsia and Herring, who at that time were preparing their second flight to the Moon. Znayka also got involved in the work of building a space rocket and, when the rocket was ready, made an interplanetary journey with Fuchsia and Herring. Having arrived on the Moon, our brave travelers examined one of the small lunar craters in the area of the lunar Sea of Clarity, visited the cave that was located in the center of this crater, and made observations of changes in gravity. On the Moon, as is known, gravity is much less than on Earth, and therefore observations of changes in gravity are of great scientific importance. Having spent about four hours on the moon. Znayka and his companions were forced to quickly set off on the return journey, since their air supplies were running out. Everyone knows that there is no air on the Moon and, in order not to suffocate, you should always take a supply of air with you. In condensed form, of course. 
Returning to Flower City, Znayka talked a lot about his journey. His stories were of great interest to everyone, and especially to the astronomer Steklyashkin, who had observed the Moon more than once through a telescope. Using his telescope, Steklyashkin was able to see that the surface of the Moon was not flat, but mountainous, and many of the mountains on the Moon were not like those on Earth, but for some reason were round, or rather, ring-shaped. Scientists call these ring mountains lunar craters, or circuses. To understand what such a lunar circus, or crater, looks like, imagine a huge circular field, twenty, thirty, fifty, or even a hundred kilometers across, and imagine that this huge circular field is surrounded by an earthen rampart or mountain only two or three kilometers high , - and so you get a lunar circus, or a crater. There are thousands of such craters on the Moon. There are small ones - about two kilometers, but there are also gigantic ones - up to one hundred and forty kilometers in diameter.
Many scientists are interested in the question of how lunar craters were formed and where they came from. In Sunny City, all the astronomers even quarreled among themselves, trying to resolve this complex issue, and were divided into two halves. One half claims that the lunar craters came from volcanoes, the other half says that the lunar craters are traces of the fall of large meteorites. The first half of astronomers are therefore called followers of the volcanic theory or simply volcanists, and the second - followers of the meteorite theory or meteorites. 
Znayka, however, did not agree with either the volcanic or meteorite theory. Even before traveling to the Moon, he created his own theory of the origin of lunar craters. Once, together with Steklyashkin, he observed the Moon through a telescope, and it struck him that the lunar surface was very similar to the surface of a well-baked pancake with its spongy holes. After that, Znayka often went to the kitchen and watched the pancakes being baked. He noticed that while the pancake is liquid, its surface is completely smooth, but as it heats up in the frying pan, bubbles of heated steam begin to appear on its surface. Having appeared on the surface of the pancake, the bubbles burst, as a result of which shallow holes are formed on the pancake, which remain when the dough is properly baked and loses its viscosity.
Znayka even wrote a book in which he wrote that the surface of the Moon was not always hard and cold as it is now. Once upon a time, the Moon was a fiery liquid, that is, heated to a molten state, a ball. Gradually, however, the surface of the Moon cooled and became no longer liquid, but viscous, like dough. It was still very hot from the inside, so hot gases burst to the surface in the form of huge bubbles. Having reached the surface of the Moon, these bubbles, of course, burst. But while the surface of the Moon was still quite liquid, the traces of the bursting bubbles were delayed and disappeared, leaving no trace, just as bubbles on water during rain leave no trace. But when the surface of the Moon cooled so much that it became thick like dough or like molten glass, traces of the bursting bubbles no longer disappeared, but remained in the form of rings protruding above the surface. Cooling more and more, these rings finally hardened. At first they were smooth, like frozen circles on the water, and then they gradually collapsed and eventually became like those lunar ring mountains, or craters, that everyone can observe through a telescope.
All astronomers - both volcanists and meteorologists - laughed at this Znayka theory.
Vulcanists said:
– Why was this pancake theory still needed, if it is already clear that lunar craters are just volcanoes?
Znayka answered that a volcano is a very large mountain, at the top of which there is a relatively small crater, that is, a hole. If at least one lunar crater were the crater of a volcano, then the volcano itself would be almost the size of the entire Moon, but this is not observed at all.
Meteorists said:
– Of course, lunar craters are not volcanoes, but they are also not pancakes. Everyone knows that these are traces of meteorite impacts.
To this Znayka replied that meteorites could fall on the Moon not only vertically, but also at an angle, and in this case they would leave traces that were not round, but elongated, oblong or oval. Meanwhile, on the Moon, all craters are mostly round, not oval.
However, both volcanists and meteorites were so accustomed to their favorite theories that they did not even want to listen to Znayka and contemptuously called him a pancake maker. They said that it was generally ridiculous to even compare the Moon, which is a large cosmic body, with some unfortunate pancake made from sour dough.
However, Znayka himself abandoned his pancake theory after he personally visited the Moon and saw one of the lunar craters up close. He was able to see that the ring mountain was not a mountain at all, but the remains of a giant brick wall that had collapsed over time. Although the bricks in this wall had weathered and lost their original quadrangular shape, it was still possible to understand that these were bricks and not just pieces of ordinary rock. This was especially clearly visible in those places where the wall had collapsed relatively recently and individual bricks had not yet had time to crumble into dust.
On reflection, Znayka realized that these walls could only have been made by some intelligent creatures, and when he returned from his trip, he published a book in which he wrote that once upon a time intelligent creatures, the so-called lunar shorties, lived on the Moon. sleepwalkers. In those days, there was air on the Moon, as there is now on Earth. Therefore, sleepwalkers lived on the surface of the Moon, just as we all live on the surface of our planet Earth. However, over time, there was less and less air on the Moon, which gradually flew into the surrounding world space. In order not to die without air, the lunatics surrounded their cities with thick brick walls, over which they erected huge glass domes. Air could no longer escape from under these domes, so it was possible to breathe and not be afraid of anything.
But the sleepwalkers knew that this could not continue forever, that over time the air around the Moon would completely dissipate, which is why the surface of the Moon, not protected by a significant layer of air, would be strongly heated by the sun’s rays and it would be impossible to exist on the Moon even under a glass cover. That is why sleepwalkers began to move inside the Moon and now live not on the outer side, but on its inner side, since in fact the Moon is empty inside, like a rubber ball, and you can live just as well on its inner surface as on the outer one .
This book by Znayka caused a lot of noise. All the shorties read it with enthusiasm. Many scientists praised this book for being interestingly written, but still expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that it was not scientifically substantiated. And a full member of the Academy of Astronomical Sciences, Professor Zvezdochkin, who also happened to read Znaykin’s book, was simply seething with indignation and said that this book was not a book at all, but some kind of, as he put it, damn nonsense. This Professor Zvezdochkin was not exactly some very angry person. No, he was a rather kind little fellow, but very, how shall I put it, demanding, irreconcilable. In any case, he valued accuracy and order most of all and could not tolerate any fantasies, that is, inventions.
Professor Zvezdochkin suggested that the Academy of Astronomical Sciences organize a discussion of Znaika’s book and take it apart, as he put it, piece by piece, so that no one else would be discouraged from writing such books. The Academy agreed and sent an invitation to Znayka. Znayka arrived and the discussion took place. It began, as it should in such cases, with a report that Professor Zvezdochkin himself volunteered to give. 
When all the short people invited to the discussion gathered in the spacious hall and sat down on chairs, Professor Zvezdochkin came up to the podium, and the first thing they heard from him were the words:
– Dear friends, allow the meeting dedicated to the discussion of Znayka’s book to be considered open.
After this, Professor Zvezdochkin cleared his throat loudly, slowly wiped his nose with a handkerchief and began to make a report. Having briefly outlined the contents of Znayka’s book and praising it for its lively, vivid presentation, the professor said that, in his opinion, Znayka made a mistake and mistook for bricks what in reality were not bricks, but some kind of layered rock. Well, since there were actually no bricks, the professor said, then there were, therefore, no short sleepwalkers. They could not have existed, because even if they had existed, they would not have been able to live on the inner surface of the Moon, since everyone has long known that all objects on the Moon, just like here on Earth, are attracted to the center of the planet, and if the Moon were actually empty inside, no one would still be able to stay on its inner surface: he would immediately be drawn to the center of the Moon, and he would dangle helplessly there in the void until he died of starvation.
After listening to all this, Znayka rose from his seat and said mockingly:
“You talk as if you’ve ever been in the center of the moon before!”
- Did you seem to be hanging out? – the professor snapped.
“I didn’t hang out,” Znayka objected, “but I flew in a rocket and observed objects in a state of weightlessness.”
– What else does the state of weightlessness have to do with it? - the professor muttered.
“Here’s what it has to do with it,” said Znayka. – Let it be known that during the flight in the rocket I had a bottle of water. When the state of weightlessness set in, the bottle floated freely in space, like every object that was not attached to the walls of the cabin. Everything was fine as long as the water completely filled the bottle. But when I drank half the water, strange things began to happen: the remaining water did not stay at the bottom of the bottle and did not collect in the center, but spread evenly along the walls, so that an air bubble formed inside the bottle. This means that the water was attracted not to the center of the bottle, but to its walls. This is understandable, since only masses of matter can attract each other, and emptiness cannot attract anything to itself.
- I hit the sky with my finger! – Zvezdochkin grumbled angrily. – Compared the bottle to the planet! Do you think this is scientific?
- Why not scientifically? – Znayka answered authoritatively. – When a bottle moves freely in interplanetary space, it is in a state of weightlessness and is in every way like a planet. Inside it, everything will happen in the same way as inside the planet, that is, inside the Moon, if, of course, the Moon is empty from the inside.
- Exactly! – Zvezdochkin picked up. - Just please explain to us why you got it into your head that the Moon is empty inside?
The listeners who came to listen to the report laughed, but Znayka was not embarrassed by this and said:
“You could easily get this into your head if you thought about it a little.” After all, if the Moon was at first fiery-liquid, then it began to cool not from the inside, but from the surface, since it is the surface of the Moon that comes into contact with the cold cosmic space. Thus, the surface of the Moon cooled and hardened first, as a result of which the Moon began to look like a huge spherical vessel, inside of which there continued to be - what?..
- Molten substance that has not yet cooled down! - one of the listeners shouted.
- Right! – Znayka picked up. – A molten substance that has not yet cooled down, that is, simply put, a liquid.
“You see, you say it yourself – liquid,” Zvezdochkin grinned. Where did the emptiness come from in the Moon if there was liquid there, you crazy thing?
“Well, it’s not at all difficult to guess,” Znayka answered calmly. – After all, the hot liquid, surrounded by the solid shell of the Moon, continued to cool, and as it cooled, it decreased in volume. You probably know that every substance, when cooled, decreases in volume?
“I suppose I know,” the professor muttered angrily.
“Then everything should be clear to you,” Znayka said joyfully. If the liquid substance decreased in volume, then an empty space would naturally form inside the Moon, like an air bubble in a bottle. This empty space became larger and larger, located in the central part of the Moon, since the remaining liquid mass was attracted to the solid shell of the Moon, just as the remaining water was attracted to the walls of a bottle when it was in a state of weightlessness. Over time, the liquid inside the Moon completely cooled and hardened, as if sticking to the solid walls of the planet, due to which an internal cavity formed in the Moon, which could gradually be filled with air or some other gas. 
- Right! - someone shouted.
And now shouts were heard from all sides:
- Right! Right! Well done, Znayka! Hooray!
Everyone clapped their hands. Someone shouted:
- Down with Zvezdochkin!
Now two short men grabbed Zvezdochkin - one by the collar, the other by the legs - and dragged him off the podium. Several short men picked Znayka up in their arms and dragged her to the podium.
- Let Znayka make a report! - they shouted around. - Down with Zvezdochkin!
- Dear friends! - said Znayka, finding himself on the podium. – I can’t give a report. I wasn't prepared.
– Tell us about the flight to the moon! - the short ones shouted.
– About the state of weightlessness! - someone shouted.
– About the Moon?.. About the state of weightlessness? – Znayka repeated in confusion. - Well, okay, let it be about the state of weightlessness. You probably know that a space rocket, in order to overcome the gravity of the Earth, must acquire a very high speed - eleven kilometers per second. While the rocket is gaining this speed, your body is experiencing large overloads. The weight of your body seems to increase several times, and you are forcefully pressed to the floor of the cabin. You cannot raise your arm, you cannot lift your leg, it seems to you that your whole body is filled with lead. It seems to you as if some terrible weight has fallen on your chest and is not allowing you to breathe. But as soon as the acceleration of the spacecraft stops and it begins its free flight in interplanetary space, the overload ends, and you stop experiencing gravity, that is, simply put, you lose weight.
– Tell me how you felt? What did you experience? - someone shouted.
– My first feeling when losing weight was as if the seat had been quietly removed from under me and I had nothing to sit on. It felt like I had lost something, but I couldn’t figure out what. I felt a little dizzy, it began to seem to me as if someone had deliberately turned me upside down. At the same time, I felt that everything inside me froze, grew cold, as if I were frightened, although there was no fright itself. After waiting a little and making sure that nothing bad had happened to me, that I was breathing as usual, and seeing everything around me, and thinking normally, I stopped paying attention to the freezing in my chest and abdomen, and this unpleasant feeling went away by itself. When I looked around and saw that all the objects in the cabin were in place, that the seat, as before, was under me, it no longer seemed to me that I was upside down, and the dizziness also went away...
- Tell me! Tell us more! - the short ones screamed in unison when they saw that Znayka had stopped.
Some even pounded their feet on the floor out of impatience.
“Well, then,” Znayka continued. – Having made sure that everything was in order, I wanted to lean my feet on the floor, but I did it so abruptly that I jumped up and hit my head on the ceiling of the cabin. I didn’t take into account, you see, that my body had lost weight and that now only a small effort was enough to jump to a terrible height. Since my body weighed nothing at all, I could hang freely in the middle of the cabin in any position without going down or going up, but to do this I had to be careful and not make sudden movements. Objects that we had not secured before leaving for the flight also floated freely around me. Water did not pour out of the bottle even if the bottle was turned upside down, but if it was possible to shake the water out of the bottle, it collected into balls, which also floated freely in space until they were attracted to the walls of the cabin.
“Tell me, please,” asked one short man, “did you have water in the bottle or maybe some other drink?”
“The bottle contained plain water,” Znayka answered briefly. – What other drink could there be?
“Well, I don’t know,” the short man spread his hands. “I thought it was citro or maybe kerosene.”
Everyone laughed. And another short one asked:
-Did you bring anything from the Moon?
– I brought a piece of the Moon itself.
Znayka took out a small bluish-gray pebble from his pocket and said:
– There are many different stones lying on the surface of the Moon, and very beautiful ones at that, but I did not want to take them, since they could turn out to be meteorites accidentally brought to the Moon from outer space. And I knocked this stone off the rock with a hammer when we descended into the lunar cave. Therefore, you can be quite sure that this stone is a piece of the real Moon.
A piece of the Moon passed through the hands. Everyone wanted to take a closer look at him. While the short ones looked at the stone, passing it from hand to hand. Znayka told how he, Fuchsia and Herring traveled on the Moon and what they saw there. Everyone really liked Znaykin’s story. Everyone was very pleased. Only Professor Zvezdochkin was not very pleased. As soon as Znayka finished his story and left the podium, Professor Zvezdochkin jumped onto the podium and said:
– Dear friends, we were all very interested in hearing about the Moon and everything else, and on behalf of all those present I offer my heartfelt gratitude to the famous Znayka for his interesting and informative speech. However... - said Zvezdochkin and raised his index finger upward with a stern look.
- Down! - one of the short guys shouted.
“However...” Professor Zvezdochkin repeated, raising his voice. “However, we have gathered here not at all to listen about the Moon, but to discuss Znaika’s book, and since we didn’t discuss the book, it means we didn’t accomplish what was planned, and since we didn’t accomplish what was planned, then it will still be necessary to carry it out, and if it is still necessary to carry it out, then it will still have to be carried out and subjected to consideration...
No one ever found out what Zvezdochkin wanted to examine.
The noise was so loud that nothing could be understood. Only one word was heard from everywhere:
- Down! Two short men rushed to the podium again, one grabbed Zvezdochkin by the collar, the other by the legs, and dragged him straight out into the street. There they sat him down on the grass in the park and said:
- When you fly to the moon, you will speak on the podium, but for now, sit here on the grass. Zvezdochkin was so stunned by such unceremonious treatment that he could not utter a word. Then he gradually came to his senses and shouted:
- This mess! I will complain! I'll write to the newspaper! You will still recognize Professor Zvezdochkin! He shouted for a long time, waving his fists, but when he saw that all the short ones had gone home, he said:
– At this point I declare the meeting closed. After which he got up and also went home.
Steklyashkin about whether there is life on the Moon or not.
During this dispute, the weightlessness device designed by Znayka (from a slide rule, a moon rock and a magnet) unexpectedly fails to function. Znayka becomes just a laughing stock in the presence of Steklyashkin and everyone else. In despair, he was ready to abandon his idea and quit doing science altogether.
But in the evening of the same day, when the full moon came, Znayka realized that the moonstone was effective only during this period. Having thrown away the zero-gravity device, he again causes weightlessness and therefore decides to rush with his idea. Together with Vintik and Shpuntik they build a rocket.
At the same time, Dunno, not knowing that the weightlessness device has started working again, steals it to test it on fish. As a result, he almost drowns the device in the river. For this, Znayka removes him from the flight to the moon, and then Dunno decides to hide in a rocket at night in order to fly secretly. Together with him, he takes Donut, who was not taken to the Moon because he is very heavy and allegedly cannot be lifted by a rocket. In the rocket, they climb into bags of seeds (Dunno - into pumpkin ones, Donut - into watermelon ones) and plan to sleep until the morning.
When Dunno falls asleep, Donut, having changed his mind about flying, tries to get out of the rocket, but before exiting, frightened by a toad outside the rocket (she was also frightened to such an extent that she fell down), out of fear she falls into the rocket control cabin and accidentally launches it. As a result, he and Dunno fly to the moon, and none of the residents of Flower City notices this.
Waking up in space, Dunno first discovers that there is no one in the rocket except them. Then he encounters the Znayka-1 on-board computer and argues with it about who is in charge of the rocket. This leads to the fact that the computer ceases to control the flight, and the rocket that has already approached the Moon begins to fall on it. In fact, nothing terrible would have happened, since the rocket was controlled automatically.
After this, Donut admits to Dunno that he accidentally launched the rocket. At the last moment, Dunno manages to make peace with the computer, and the rocket lands on the moon. Dunno and Donut exit the rocket, and Dunno falls into the crater, which actually turns out to be a through passage through the outer surface of the Moon to the inner core. It is inhabited by the same short people as Dunno, there are monetary relations between them, and the plants correspond to the growth of the short people themselves.
After dinner at the restaurant, the waiter asks Dunno to pay the bill. However, he reports that he does not know what money is, as a result of which he ends up in prison. There he tells his fellow inmates about giant earth plants and their seeds brought to the moon in a rocket. This story attracts the attention of one of the prisoners, Migi. He gives Dunno a letter and asks, after his release, to give it to the arms dealer Julio, Miga’s friend.
After leaving prison, Dunno meets with Zvezdochka again. It turns out that she was fired for publishing an article about how the chemical plants of the local oligarch Spruts were polluting the air. Dunno and Zvezdochka go to Julio, who takes Miga from prison after paying a bribe for him. They decide to create the Giant Plants Joint Stock Company in order to, through the sale of its shares, get money to build an aircraft and take the seeds of giant plants from the surface of the Moon.
Then Miga and Julio organize a publicity campaign for the society on television. This society is of interest to the lunar rich (especially Mr. Spruts), most of whom are engaged in the production of artificial food products. They are afraid of competition from giant plants and are trying to prevent the delivery of seeds from the surface of the Moon. Sprouts' CEO, Krabs, bribes Miga and Julio with half a million ferthings to shut down the Giant Plant Society and disappear with the money.
Meanwhile, Donut leaves the rocket, where he had previously eaten all the food supplies, and also falls into the inner core of the Moon. He finds out that local residents do not eat table salt, and organizes a business for the extraction and sale of salt. As a result, Donut becomes a millionaire, and everyone calls him Mr. Ponch.
The discovery of a space suit that belonged to Donut makes Sprouts think about a massive alien invasion. To prevent this, Sprouts and other rich people collect three billion ferthings to destroy a rocket with seeds located on the surface of the Moon. At the same time, the owner of the tobacco factory, Scooperfield, refuses to participate in collecting money, and Sprouts instructs Krabs to deal with him.
At this time, Dunno and Zvezdochka are trying to find Miga and Julio, but they fail, and they are forced to spend the night on the street, under the bridge. Because of Dunno, who promised Kozlik to look after the fire (“I don’t sleep at all!”) and did not live up to his trust, the fire went out, and Zvezdochka caught a cold. She is in mortal danger. To call a doctor for Zvezdochka, Dunno tries to earn money, but he is driven away from everywhere. Finally, having found a job as a nanny for Roald and Mimi, Mrs. Lamprey’s crocodiles, he walks them in the park, and then performs on stage with the song “There Was a Grasshopper Sitting in the Grass.” For this, Dunno receives money from the audience and pays for the services of Dr. Syringe to treat Zvezdochka.
But immediately after this, due to Lamprey’s complaint (at the time he was hired, she categorically forbade him to mix with the homeless), Dunno and Zvezdochka are caught by the police, led by Inspector Meagle, and sent to the Island of Fools, where everyone is having fun. There, Star learns from her former boss, editor Grizzly, also exiled to the island (he tried to catch Star, but was captured by the police on suspicion of trying to rob Klops) that under the sea there is a special system (powered by attractions) that absorbs joy everyone who lives on this island. This joy serves as energy for Spruts' factories, and under the influence of the air polluted by the factories, the short ones turn into sheep and rams.
At this time, on Earth, Steklyashkin, through a telescope, discovers Znayka’s missing rocket on the Moon. Realizing that Dunno and Donut are there, Znayka and other shorties from Earth build a second rocket with more powerful engines (since they did not have moonstone to make a spare weightlessness device) and go to the Moon to save Dunno and Donut. Having reached its surface and transferred to the compact first rocket, they go inside the Moon, where, with the help of a zero-gravity device, they defeat the police sent to counter the predicted alien invasion.
Donut notices the rocket and comes to the astronauts himself. Together they fly after Dunno and Zvezdochka to the Island of Fools, where Dunno has almost turned into a ram, and evacuate all its inhabitants from the island, teleporting all the attractions. As a result, this contributes to the cessation of energy production for the Spruts factories connected to the island into a single network. They stop and stop smoking, the power grid is destroyed, and the Island of Fools goes under water. Having learned about this from the news on TV, Sprouts, in a rage, organizes a pogrom in his house.
Short earthlings distribute seeds of giant plants to the inhabitants of the Moon and return to Earth. Coming out of the rocket, Dunno rejoices at seeing the sun after a long time, after which he says that now they “can go on a trip somewhere again.” Chamomile points out to Dunno his flighty incorrigibility, to which he, climbing a sunflower, replies that if he is correctable, then they will all simply be bored with life.
Presentation version
There is a presentation version of the cartoon lasting one and a half hours, released on video cassettes in 1999, which uses fragments that were not included in the final version during editing. This version takes place after the trip to the Moon. Standing at the lectern in the hall where Znayka’s argument with Steklyashkin unfolded, Dunno retells to the viewer his version of the journey.
The plot of this version is very different from the main one, since first of all the creators tried to explain the unusual properties of the moonstone, which is actually a meteorite. Such stones were traditionally used by the lunar rich as a source of energy. One of these stones fell to Earth instead of the Moon and was used to obtain artificial weightlessness. Due to a shortage of stone, the Moon is facing an energy crisis.
Every day, Spruts monitors the stability of the power plant located under the Island of Fools. This is where such stones are used. Sprouts and Krabs are busy searching for Dunno. Krabs, wearing a special suit made in the shape of a cockchafer and allowing him to fly and be in space, tracked down the protagonist - he even visited Earth and encountered Dunno just at the moment when the latter found the stone.
Throughout the entire story, the lunar rich are trying to take away a valuable mineral from Dunno, and send him to the Island of Fools. The island does not have any of the attractions that were in the original version of the film. The presentation version has many inconsistencies and plot holes. In the opening credits the version itself is called a presentation version, and in the closing credits it is called a film version: most likely, there was an attempt by FAF Entertainment to re-edit all 12 episodes into a full-length cartoon that could be released in cinemas.
Characters
Main characters
- Dunno- the main character of the film. Sneaked into the rocket at night to fly with the others to the moon. Favorite phrases: “I’m not responsible for myself!” and “I know you!”
- Znayka- a short scientist who discovered the moon rock, designed a weightlessness device and supervised the preparation of the lunar expedition. When Steklyashkin saw that the rocket was on the Moon and told the others about it, Znayka refused to participate, believing that Dunno and Ponchik themselves were to blame. Later, he apologizes to everyone and, together with Steklyashkin, leads the construction of a new rocket. In the 11th episode, together with Vintik, Shpuntik, Doctor Pilyulkin and Donchik, they went to the Island of Fools to save Dunno and Zvezdochka, and in the next episode they already found them. Favorite phrase: “So, so!”
- Star- Dunno’s friend and former journalist for Lunar Newspaper. In episode 5, she wrote an article in the newspaper about how Spruts chemical plants were causing damage, for which she was fired. After this, Zvezdochka protests and demands that the factories be closed. Fills the same role that a short man named Kozlik played in the book. In episode 12, it turned out that Zvezdochka fell in love with Dunno.
- Donut- Dunno's best friend, known for his insatiable appetite, who ends up on the Moon with Dunno. When they penetrated the rocket in episode 3, he changed his mind about flying and accidentally launched the rocket. After Dunno found himself in the Sublunary World, Donut returned to the rocket, where he ate a year's supply of food. In episode 8, it turns out that it took him (that is, Donut) 7 days, 11 hours, 38 minutes and 6 seconds. As a result, he exits the rocket and falls into the same crater as Dunno. In the Sublunary World, Donut organizes his business of extracting and selling salt, but completely forgets about searching for Dunno, although he only says that he will look for him. When in the 11th episode Znayka, Vintik, Shpuntik and Doctor Pilyulkin flew on a rocket into the Moon, Donut reunited with them. They all went to the Island of Fools to save Dunno and Zvezdochka, and in the 12th episode they already found them. Favorite phrase: “You can’t break your diet!”
- Pilyulkin- Doctor of the Flower City. He constantly threatens to treat everyone with castor oil and put mustard plasters on (this was not the case in the original book, because his image became more positive there, and in the first two books mustard plasters were not mentioned at all). Together with Znayka, Vintik and Shpuntik, he went inside the Moon on his own initiative. In the 11th episode, they all went to the Island of Fools to save Dunno and Zvezdochka, and in the next episode they already found them.
- cog And Shpuntik- mechanics who built the rocket under the leadership of Znayka. In episode 11, they went with him and Doctor Pilyulkin inside the Moon. When Donut reunited with them, they went to the Island of Fools to save Dunno and Zvezdochka, and in episode 12 they already found them.
- Steklyashkin- astronomer and scientific opponent of Znayka (later his friend and colleague). Claims that there is no life on the moon. In the 10th episode, he saw a rocket on the Moon through a telescope, and in the next episode, Znayka, before flying inside the Moon, leaves him (that is, Steklyashkin) as captain. Favorite phrase: “Yes, yes and yes again!”.
- Chamomile- baby from Flower City. Treats Dunno well and believes that he is telling the truth. She is in love with him, just like Zvezdochka.
- Front sight- Camomile's friend. He doesn’t believe that Dunno really found a stone that broke away from the Moon itself. I am sure that Dunno mixed something up or simply made it up.
- Sprouts- the main antagonist of the film, the richest inhabitant of the Moon, billionaire and chairman of the Big Bradlam (that is, the main syndicate of capitalists). Owner of factories for the production of synthetic food products, as well as “Lunnaya Gazeta” and the “Lun-TV” TV channel. Its factories pollute the air. He does everything he can to prevent the spread of information about this. In addition, it is because of him that short people are sent to Fun Island to keep its factories running. As a result, the island went under water, the factories stopped, and this meant that it was ruined.
- Migl- Lunar Police Inspector and secondary antagonist. At the first appearance, he conducts a registration of offenses and a preliminary inquiry. In other episodes, he commands squads of police officers sent to raid and eliminate riots. Has flat humor. Based on biometric data, he mistakenly identified the arrested Dunno as the dangerous criminal Fly Agaric. In episode 5, Migl identified Zvezdochka, but she hit him on the head with a plywood poster mounted on a stick, as a result of which he began to pursue her and Dunno everywhere. In Episode 9, he caught them under a bridge and sent them to Wacky Island. When in the 11th episode Znayka and the others arrived in the Moon City, Inspector Migl and other police officers tried to fire at the rocket. But, being in a state of weightlessness, they flew away in an unknown direction.
- Miga- a petty swindler who met Dunno in prison. Stutters slightly. In Episode 5, before Dunno’s release, he gives him a letter for Julio.
- Julio- a small entrepreneur, a friend of Miga and the owner of a store of miscellaneous goods (that is, a weapons store). He likes to use nylon stockings to strangle someone. He came up with the idea of creating a joint stock company of giant plants. As a result, together with Miga, he destroyed the Society of Giant Plants and ran away with the money.
- Krabs- Chief Manager of Spruts. He suffers from a runny nose and periodically sneezes heavily. Has connections in the criminal world and does not hesitate to use criminal methods. In episode 7, he bribed Miga and Julio for half a million ferthings, and in episode 9, he hung Scooperfield from a tree. In the 11th episode, they, together with Fly Agaric, robbed the Lunar Bank, where 3 billion ferthings collected from members of the Big Bredlam were brought to destroy the rocket.
- Grizzle- editor-in-chief of the Lunar Newspaper, the publication of which is financed by Spruts. By order of the latter, he fired Zvezdochka from the editorial office (he did this out of fear of being fired for a mistake). He was later detained by police on suspicion of trying to rob Klops. During the search, a ticket to Stupid Island was found on him, which he was going to give to Zvezdochka. As a result, Grizzle was sent to the aforementioned island. There he told (or rather, sang) to Star what Foolish Island was, and then was evacuated along with everyone else and received the seeds of giant plants.
- Scooperfield- Lunar oligarch and owner of a factory for the production of artificial tobacco, known for his pathological greed. He pretends to be deaf so that they don’t pay attention to him when they say something important, and he can find out everything he needs. Since Scoopfield's factory produces tobacco products, in episode 11 Spruts takes a cigar from a cigarette case, inside of which is a logo in the form of a profile of the owner of the factory, namely Scooperfield.
Minor characters
Flower City
- Grumpy- a grumpy little guy, always dissatisfied with everything. Silent's friend.
- Silent- a short man who is always silent, and Grumpy's constant companion.
- Toropyzhka- resident of Flower City. He is in a hurry all the time and does not sit still.
- Confused- short, prone to losing everything.
- Syrup- a short guy who loves syrup and other tasty drinks.
- Tube- artist. I flew with Znayka to the moon.
- String bag And Neboska- twin brothers. They became famous for the fact that they liked to do everything at random (at random). Favorite words: Avoska’s is “maybe,” and Neboska’s, accordingly, “I suppose.”
- Flower- poet. He composes poems when the heroes were looking for Dunno and Donut, and under the leadership of Steklyashkin they were building a second rocket.
- Ghusla- musician. Appears only at the very beginning of the 1st episode.
- Button
- Flower radio- wired radio of the Flower City. Loudspeakers are hung on street poles.
- Govorilkin and Bell- presenters of Flower Radio. The voices are the same as those of Znayka and the computer “Znayka-1”.
Sublunary world
- Fix- Klops's gardener. I caught Dunno eating a pear. When in the 7th episode Dunno, Zvezdochka, Miga and Julio arrived at night to pick up Dunno’s spacesuit, the last two (that is, Miga and Julio) were dressed as police officers to “arrest” Fix and get him out of the way, since he was guarding the entrance , armed with a gun.
- Klops- the owner of the garden where Dunno ended up. Pride is a very large pear that Dunno ate immediately after landing on the moon in episode 4. There, Klops poisoned Dunno with crocodiles. In episode 7, Dunno, Zvezdochka, Miga and Julio came to him for a spacesuit, but Klops fell into a trap that editor Grizzly had set before to catch Zvezdochka.
- The owner of a fun stall- dresses like a clown and lures passers-by to throw balls at the volunteer. The entertainment consisted of hitting a volunteer in the face with a ball, standing behind a curtain with a slot for the face, making it impossible to dodge. He pays the one who survives all the blows 3 fertingas. Favorite phrase: “ Simple/solved issue: Stop it, don't be angry! If you break your nose, you’ll get a prize!” Dunno meets him for the first time in episode 4 after he escaped from Klops's garden. When Dunno was looking for a job in Episode 9, he decided to become a volunteer. Angry that he was hit, he throws balls at the visitors of the cheerful booth and fights with the owner, destroying the building in the process.
- Waiter- I was serving Dunno when he came to the restaurant. Because he didn't pay for dinner, the waiter called the police. In episode 8, he also serves Donut, and in the next episode, Dunno tries to get a job in a restaurant, but breaks the dishes. Then the waiter kicks him out (perhaps he remembered his previous violation). It is impossible to say for sure whether he is the owner of the restaurant, since no others were seen, nor was the owner of the establishment. However, when Dunno came to hire a waiter, the latter was filling out some forms, so he probably still plays a leadership role.
- fly agaric- the famous bandit and raider with whom Inspector Migl confused Dunno. One-eyed, similar in appearance and hairstyle to Dunno. He hides under the mask of a beggar and feeds on alms. Armed with a machine gun and a blowpipe with nails. He robbed 33 banks, 147 stores and ate dinner 321 times without paying a cent. In the 11th episode, together with Krabs, he robbed a bank that contained 3 billion ferthings, collected by the rich to destroy the rocket. During the chase, he fired back at the police with a machine gun and, having spent all his ammunition, used a blowpipe with a nail, piercing the left front wheel of the police car.
- Handsome- an equally famous thief and fraudster. Fly Agaric's partner in his criminal affairs. He identified Dunno at the trial, but never recognized him as his boss. In the book, it was he who was the bandit for whom Migl mistook Dunno.
- Presenter of the channel "Lun-TV"- reports news on the main channel.
- Wrigl- judge in the Moon City. Wears a robe and cap. In episode 5, in court, Migl is having a conversation with him (that is, Wrigl).
- Organ Grinder- advertises the Island of Fools. Also, in Episode 9, he ate a fish sandwich that was eaten by one of Lady Lamprey's crocodiles, namely Roald. After this, the organ grinder took part in a performance with Dunno, when he had already found a job, but wanted to raise money for the treatment of Zvezdochka as quickly as possible. In episode 12, I received the seeds of giant plants and watched the launch of a rocket.
- Operator of the Lun-TV channel- said the phrase: “Let the astronaut speak!”
- Doctor Syringe- unlike the book, he is thin and tall. Sometimes he is advertised on TV, and also does not miss the opportunity for self-promotion when Dunno was filmed for the news. In episode 9, he treated Zvezdochka. When in the 12th episode the earthlings distribute seeds to the sleepwalkers, Pilyulkin communicates with him.
- Haps- owner of the hotel where Dunno in a spacesuit was filmed.
- Group "The Moon Brothers"(literally - “Moon Brothers”)- plays in a restaurant when Donut is eating there. After he told two patrons that he was sprinkling salt on his porridge, they asked the group "The Moon Brothers" what it is. One of its participants (double bassist) answers that this is the note.
- Donut Butler- in episode 8 he helps Donut get ready for bed, and in episode 11 he wakes him up.
- Toups, Dubs, Jading And Skryagins- other rich people united in Bredlam.
- Goat- like other homeless people, he lives under a bridge. Scolds Dunno when he didn’t keep an eye on the fire. Later, when Dunno and Zvezdochka are captured by the police and sent to the Island of Fools, Kozlik takes their suitcase. In episode 11, after the arrival of Znayka and the others, he gives them this suitcase (which actually belonged to Miga and Julio and contained at least half a million ferthings). In the next episode, I received the seeds of giant plants and watched the launch of a rocket.
- Lamprey- the owner of crocodiles (in the book, she, like Mr. Klops, is the owner of dogs). Unlike the book, she doesn't like being argued with, even when she isn't. Favorite phrase: “Don’t argue with me!” In episode 12, I received the seeds of giant plants and watched the rocket take off.
- Roald(in the book - Roland) And Mimi- Lady Lamprey’s tame crocodiles, whom Dunno looked after after the death of the Society of Giant Plants. We took part in a performance with Dunno (when he was collecting money for the treatment of Zvezdochka) and an organ grinder.
- Astronomer- at his conference he tells capitalists about the results of their graviton telescope. When in the 12th episode the earthlings distribute seeds to the lunatics, Znayka communicates with him.
- Special correspondent for the Lun-TV channel- reports from the bottom of the sea, watching how the power plant under the Fool's Island is destroyed, after which he involuntarily becomes acquainted with weightlessness, admitting that it is a miracle, and interviews Znayka and Zvezdochka.
On-board computers
- "Znayka-1"- the main general control computer in the rocket on which Dunno and Donut flew to the Moon. It was created by the mind and hands of Znayka. In episode 3, he argued with Dunno about who was more important, and in episode 8 he scolded Donut for eating too much.
- "Znayka-2"- the main general control computer in the new rocket. Criticized Dr. Pilyulkin.
The image of both computers is a loudspeaker flying in a state of weightlessness and demonstrating a semblance of facial expressions.
Creators
The roles were voiced
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Venera Rakhimova | Dunno (all episodes except 10th) |
| Kristina Orbakaite | Zvezdochka (4-9th and 11-12th series) |
| Svetlana Stepchenko | Donut (episodes 1-4, 8 and 11-12) Vintik (episodes 1-2 and 10-12) |
| Klara Rumyanova | Chamomile (episodes 1-3 and 10-12) Lamprey (episode 9) Chamomile (episodes 1-3 and 10-12) |
| Alexander Lenkov | Steklyashkin (2nd and 10-12th series) Haps (Episode 7) |
| Artyom Karapetyan | Spruts (episodes 5, 7-8 and 11-12) |
| Alexander Pozharov | Miga (episodes 4-9) one of the members of the group “The Moon Brothers” (episode 8) Miga (episodes 4-9) |
| Boris Shuvalov | Krabs (episodes 6-9 and 11) operator of the Lun-TV channel (7th episode) |
| Alexander Ryzhkov | Fix (4th and 7th series) 1st Prisoner (Episode 4) |
| Alexey Borzunov | Znayka (episodes 1-3 and 10-12) “Znayka-1” (3-4, 8 and 11 episodes) |
| Irina Byakova | Front sight (1-2 and 10-11 series) |
| Mikhail Kononov | Grizzle (episodes 5-7 and 12) Grizzle (episodes 5-7 and 12) |
| Valery Barinov | Migl (episodes 4-5, 7, 9 and 11) |
| Rudolf Pankov | Julio (episodes 6-9) Julio (episodes 6-9) |
| Yuri Sarantsev | Klops (4th and 7th series) 2nd Prisoner (Episode 4) |
| Yan Yanakiev | waiter (4th and 8-9th episodes) waiter (4th and 8-9th episodes) |
Uncredited
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Svetlana Kharlap | Toropyzhka (2nd and 10th episodes) Shpuntik (episodes 1-2 and 10-12) |
| Lyudmila Shuvalova | episode episode |
| Ekaterina Korabelnik | episode episode |
| Tatiana Rodionova | episode episode |
| Yuri Yurash | episode episode |
| Irina Gubanova | presenter of the Lun-TV channel (episodes 5, 7 and 12) |
| Igor Klimovich | Handsome (Episode 5) Dubs (Episode 8) Handsome (Episode 5) |
| Valery Tolkov | astronomer (episode 11) astronomer (episode 11) |
| Vyacheslav Baranov | Flower (Episode 10) owner of a cheerful booth (episode 9) |
| Vladimir Mikhitarov | short guy who looks like Donut (episode 5) Dr. Syringe (episodes 7 and 9) short guy who looks like Donut (episode 5) |
| Yuri Menshagin | 2nd restaurant visitor (Episode 8) |
| Alexander Voevodin | Kozlik (episodes 9 and 11) Kozlik (episodes 9 and 11) |
List of episodes
- The Mystery of the Moonstone
- Znayka's grandiose plan
- Dunno and Donut are flying to the moon
- First day on the moon
- Star
- "Dear friends
- Giant Plants Joint Stock Company
- Great Bradlam
- Dunno is looking for a job
- Where did the rocket go?
- Znayka is in a hurry to help
- Way home
Production
When creating, we used classic full animation technology (“The Little Humpbacked Horse” and “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”), which was not used for a long time in the 1990s due to high costs. At the same time, the large two-year gap between parts 1 and 2 was caused by the fact that the cartoon was created using rather outdated technology, when the outlines of the characters were manually transferred to sheets of celluloid, although in the animation of that time this was already done using automatic copying.
Venera Rakhimova voiced Dunno not only in this film, but also in Grigory Gladkov’s radio show “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” (1995).
For the period of filming, the FAF Entertainment studio rented premises in the film studio named after M. Gorky and immediately after the animation process was completed, it moved to Tsentrnauchfilm, where the cartoon was edited. Since rent at the Gorky film studio was very expensive, there was no money to transport animation materials, which is why almost all of the original celluloid was thrown away at that time.
Trial
Ultimately, Igor Nosov filed a lawsuit against the companies Egmont Russia LTD (which produced all printed products based on the cartoon) and Vremya AB (which produced children's sandbox molds called Dunno), but at the end of 2003, Per Gynt") - Mikhail Kononov
The opening title sequence, which was used in the VHS version before the start of the last 6 episodes, as well as in the television version of the film, features the melody of Johann Strauss "Perpetuum mobile".
Soundtrack
- Song Solveig (remix)
- Flower City Theme
- Baby Moon
- Weightlessness
- Wonderful Island
- Celebration of Znayka
- Steklyashkin telescope
- Duet of Dunno and Zvezdochka
- Dunno's Mischief
- Dance of the fish
- Donut Song
- Dunno's Dream
- Dunno and Chamomile
- Song about a grasshopper
- Luna City
- Cave of the Mountain King (remix)
- Dunno in prison
- Song of the Brave Rescuers
- Gun shop
- Episode 5 finale
- Grizzly Song
- Episode 7 medley
- Robbery
- Daisy's Song
- The collapse of Spruts
- Episode 9 finale
- Dunno on the Moon
How they made "Dunno on the Moon"
This TV documentary was filmed in 1999. It talks about how the animated series was filmed and how cartoons are made. There are two options: the first - made specifically for television, the second - published on DVD as an appendix to the film.
Now that Donut was finally convinced that there was no question of returning to Earth, he gradually calmed down and said:
Well, since we are flying to the moon and all the ways back are cut off, now we have only one task: to get back to the food compartment and have a proper breakfast.
“We just had breakfast,” said Dunno.
So was this a real breakfast? - Donut objected. - This breakfast was a trial, so to speak, rough, training.
How is this training? - Dunno didn’t understand.
Well, we had breakfast in space for the first time. This means that they didn’t seem to have breakfast, but just sort of mastered the process of eating in space, that is, they trained. But now that the training is over, we can have a real breakfast.
Well, that’s probably possible,” Dunno agreed.
The friends went down to the food compartment. Dunno still didn’t feel like eating, and he ate one space cutlet just to keep Donut company. But Donut decided not to get lost in the current situation and took the matter seriously. He stated that he had to inspect the food compartment and check the quality of all space dishes, and for this he needed to eat at least one serving of each dish.
This task, however, turned out to be beyond his power, because already on the tenth or eleventh serving he was overcome by sleep, and Donut fell asleep with a half-eaten space sausage in his mouth. There was nothing surprising in this, since Donut slept little at night, and besides, anyone who is in a state of weightlessness can fall asleep in any position without going to bed specifically for this.
Knowing that Donut had been tumbling all night looking for a way out of the rocket, Dunno decided to give him a rest, and he himself went to the astronomical cabin to see how close the spaceship was to the Moon. Through the portholes the sky with stars, with a brightly sparkling disk of the sun and a silvery, glowing Moon above, was still black. The Sun was the same size as it is usually seen from the Earth, but the Moon had already become twice as large. It seemed to Dunno that he noticed details on the surface of the Moon that he had not noticed before, but since he had never looked at the Moon carefully before, he could not say with certainty whether he saw these details because he flew closer to the Moon, or he sees them because he has now begun to look at the Moon more carefully.
Although the rocket was rushing at a terrible speed, covering a space of twelve kilometers in one second, it seemed to Dunno that it was frozen in place and not even half a finger closer to the Moon. This was explained by the fact that the distance from the Earth to the Moon is very large - about four hundred thousand kilometers. At such a huge distance, the speed of twelve kilometers per second is not so high that it can be noticed by eye, especially while in the rocket.
Two or three hours passed, and Dunno still looked at the Moon and could not tear himself away from it. The moon seemed to attract his gaze. Finally, he felt some kind of painful sucking in his stomach and only then did he realize that it was time for lunch. He quickly went down to the food compartment and saw that Donut had woken up and was already chewing something with gusto.
Eh, yes, I see you have already started lunch! - Dunno shouted. - Why didn’t you wait for me?
“So it’s not lunch yet, but this very... training,” answered Donut.
Well, then finish your training and we’ll have lunch,” said Dunno. What do we have tastier there?
With these words, Donut took out several tubes of soup, cabbage rolls and jelly from the thermostat, and the friends began to dine. Having finished this activity, Donut said that for proper digestion after lunch, you should snore a little. He immediately fell asleep, hanging in the middle of the food compartment and throwing his arms and legs to the sides. Dunno decided to follow his example, but he didn’t like the fact that during sleep in a state of weightlessness his arms and legs move apart, so he crossed his legs, as if he were sitting on a chair, and folded his arms on his chest like a pretzel.
Taking this position, Dunno began to try to fall asleep. For some time he listened to the smooth noise of the jet engine. It seemed to him that the engine was quietly whispering in his ear: “Chaf-chaf-chaf-chaf!” These sounds gradually lulled Dunno, and he fell asleep.
Several hours passed, and Dunno felt that someone was shaking him by the shoulder. Opening his eyes, he saw Donut.
Wake up soon. Dunno! Trouble! - Donut muttered in fear.
What's the problem? - asked, finally waking up. Dunno.
Trouble, brother, it seems we slept through dinner!
Fuck you with your dinner! - Dunno got angry. - I thought, God knows what happened!
I'm surprised at your carelessness! - said Donut. - The diet must not be violated. Everything must be done on time: lunch, breakfast, and dinner. This whole thing is no joke!
“Okay, okay,” Dunno said impatiently. “Let’s go and look at the moon first, and then you can at least have lunch, dinner, and even breakfast at the same time.”
The friends climbed into the astronomical cabin and looked out the upper window. What they saw stunned them. A huge luminous ball hung above the rocket, obscuring the sky with stars. Donut was so frightened that his lips, cheeks, and even ears began to tremble, and tears flowed from his eyes.
What is this?.. Where is this?.. Now we’ll crash into it, right? - he babbled, clinging to Dunno’s sleeve.
Quiet you! - Dunno shouted at him. - In my opinion, it's just the Moon.
What, just the Moon? - Donut was surprised. - The moon is small!
Of course, Luna. We just flew close to her.
Dunno climbed up to the ceiling of the cabin and, clinging to the upper window, began to examine the surface of the Moon. Now the Moon was visible as it can be seen through a telescope from Earth, and even better. On its surface one could clearly see mountain ranges, lunar cirques, and deep cracks or faults.
“Come up here, Donut,” said Dunno. - Look how clearly the Moon is visible.
The donut reluctantly rose up and began to look out the window from under his brows. What he saw did not bring him relief. He noticed that the Moon no longer stood still, but was approaching with noticeable speed. At first it was visible as a huge sparkling circle, the size of half the sky. Little by little this circle grew and eventually filled the entire sky. Now, wherever you looked, the surface of the Moon stretched in all directions with mountain ranges, lunar craters and valleys turned upside down. All this hung menacingly above my head and was already so close that it seemed that I had only to reach out my hand and I could touch the top of some lunar mountain.
The donut shivered fearfully and, pushing off the window with his hand, sank to the bottom of the cabin.
Come on! - he grumbled. - I don’t want to look at this Moon!
Why? - asked Dunno.
Why is she hanging right above her head? More will fall on us from above!
Oddball! It is not the Moon that will fall on us, but we on it.
How can we fall on it if we are from below and the Moon is from above?
Well, you see,” explained Dunno, “the Moon will simply attract us.”
So, we're kind of clinging to the Moon from below? - Donut realized.
Dunno himself didn’t know how the landing on the Moon would happen, but he wanted to show Donut that he knew everything well. Therefore he said:
Exactly. It seems like we'll stick together.
Wow! - Donut exclaimed. - So, when we get out of the rocket, we will walk on the Moon upside down?
Why else? - Dunno was surprised.
How else? - Donut answered. - If we are below, and the Moon is above, then whether you like it or not, you will have to turn upside down.
Hm! - Dunno answered thoughtfully. - It seems that in fact something is not quite what we need!
He thought for a minute and just at that moment noticed that he did not hear the usual engine noise.
Wait a minute,” he said to Donut. - Do you hear anything?
What do you think I should hear? - Donut became alarmed.
Jet engine noise.
Donut listened.
“I don’t think there’s any noise,” he replied.
Here you go! - Dunno was confused. - Has the engine gone bad? We flew almost to the moon, and suddenly such a disappointment!
Donut was overjoyed, realizing that with a damaged engine, the rocket would not be able to continue its flight and would have to return back. His joy was, however, in vain. The jet engine did not deteriorate at all, but only turned off for a while. As soon as the rocket reached maximum speed, the electronic control machine automatically stopped the engine, and further flight occurred by inertia. This happened just at the moment when Dunno and Donut fell asleep. That is why they did not notice that the engine had stopped working.
The donut rose up again, and he and Dunno began to look out the window, trying to determine whether the rocket had stopped or was continuing to fly. However, they were unable to determine this. Suddenly I heard again: “Chaf-chaf-chaf-chaf!” - the rotation motor turned on. Dunno and Donut saw through the porthole how the surface of the Moon, hanging over them like a boundless sea, swayed as if someone had pushed it, tipped back somewhere and with its entire enormity began to turn over in space.
Imagining that a rocket collided with the Moon, Dunno and Donut squealed. It never occurred to them that in reality it was not the Moon that was turning over, but the rocket. At the same instant, the centrifugal force resulting from the rotation of the rocket threw the travelers aside. Pressing against the wall of the cabin, Dunno and Donut saw the luminous surface of the Moon flash through the side windows and, swaying once again as if on the waves, plummeted down somewhere along with all the mountain ranges, lunar seas, craters and gorges.
The spectacle of this cosmic cataclysm shocked Donut so much that he shook his head and involuntarily covered his eyes with his hands, and when he opened them, he saw that there was no longer any Moon in the sky. From all sides, only bright stars sparkled in the portholes. Donut imagined that the rocket, having crashed into the Moon, broke it into pieces, which scattered to the sides and turned into stars.
All this happened instantly. Much faster than we can talk about it. As the rocket turned its tail toward the Moon, the rotation engine turned off. It became quiet for a minute. But soon I heard again: “Chaf-chaf-chaf!” This time louder than usual. The main engine turned on. But since the rocket's tail was now facing the Moon, heated gases were ejected from the nozzle in the opposite direction to its motion, causing the rocket to begin to slow down. This was necessary so that the rocket would approach the Moon at low speed and not crash during landing.
As soon as the rocket slowed down, overloads began, and the resulting gravity pressed Dunno and Donut to the cabin floor. Dunno still couldn’t wait to find out what happened to the Moon. Dragging himself on all fours to the wall of the cabin and barely rising to his feet, he looked out the side window.
Look, Donut, it turns out she's here! - Dunno suddenly shouted.
Who is there? - Donut asked.
Moon. She's downstairs, you know!
Overcoming the ever-increasing force of gravity, Donut also reached the porthole and looked down. What he saw amazed him. Below, in all directions for many kilometers, the lunar surface stretched to the very horizon with all the craters and mountains that our travelers had already seen on the Moon. The only difference was that now it was all not upside down, but stood normally, as it should be.
How did the Moon end up below? - Donut asked in bewilderment.
You see, - answered Dunno, - it was probably not the Moon that turned over, but we ourselves turned over. Or rather, the rocket turned over. At first the rocket was turned to the Moon with its head, and now it turned with its tail. Therefore, at first it seemed to us that the Moon was above, above us, but now it seems that it is below.
A! - Donut shouted joyfully. - Now I understand. The rocket turned its tail towards the Moon. So she changed her mind about going to the moon! Hooray! The rocket wants to fly back! Well done, rocket!
You understand a lot! - Dunno answered. - Rocket knows better than you what needs to be done. She knows she needs to go to the moon.
Don’t sign for the rocket! - said Donut. - The rocket is responsible for itself.
“You better look down,” said Dunno.
Donut looked out the window and discovered that the lunar surface was not moving away at all, but was getting closer. Now it no longer seemed ashen-gray, as it appears to us from the ground, but was silvery-white. Beautiful mountains stretched in different directions, between which sparkled lunar valleys, bathed in bright sunlight.
Among the valleys, huge boulders of stone could be seen in many places. Some of them were quadrangular in shape and resembled large houses. There were especially many such stones at the foot of the rocky mountains, so it seemed that lunar cities inhabited by lunar inhabitants were located along the mountain ranges.
Dunno and Donut involuntarily admired the picture that opened before them. The moon no longer seemed to them as lifeless and deserted as before.
Donut said:
If there are houses on the Moon, then someone must live in them. And who should live if not the short ones? And if there are shorties on the Moon, then they must definitely eat something, and since they must eat something, then they have something to eat, and we will not perish from hunger.
While Donut was expressing his guesses, the rocket flew very close to the Moon. Heated gases, forcefully escaping from the engine nozzle, raised clouds of dust from the surface of the Moon, which, rising higher and higher, enveloped the rocket from all sides!
What is this? - Dunno was perplexed. - It’s either smoke or dust! Maybe some kind of volcano below?
Well, I knew that we would end up in a volcano! - Donut grumbled.
How did you know this? - Dunno was surprised.
But Donut did not have time to answer this question. Just at that moment the rocket landed on the surface of the Moon. There was a shock. Unable to stay on their feet, Dunno and Donut rolled onto the floor of the cabin. For some time they sat on the floor and silently looked at each other. Finally Dunno said:
We've arrived!
So much for you... this very... tale! - Donut muttered.
Having risen to their feet, the friends began to look out the portholes, but everything around them was covered in some kind of gray, bubbling, as if boiling mass.
There is some kind of complete mess raging all around! - Donut grumbled with displeasure. - I suppose they hit the nail on the head!
In what crater? - Dunno didn’t understand.
Well, into the mouth of a volcano.
Meanwhile, the dust began to dissipate, and the outlines of the lunar surface began to appear through it.
It turns out that it’s just dust or fog,” said Dunno.
So we're not sitting in a volcano? - Donut asked.
No no! There is no volcano,” Dunno reassured him.
Well, then you can still live! - Donut sighed with relief.
Of course you can! - Dunno happily picked up and, extending his hand to Donut, said with an important look: - Congratulations to you, dear friend, on your safe arrival on the Moon!
Thank you! Congratulations to you too! - Donut answered and shook his hand.
“I wish you further success in your wonderful scientific activity,” said Dunno.
Thank you! “And I wish the same for you,” answered Donut and, shuffling his foot, respectfully bowed to Dunno.
Dunno also bowed to Donut and shuffled his foot. Feeling deep satisfaction from their politeness, the friends laughed and rushed to hug each other.
Well, where will we start our activities on the Moon, - asked Dunno, having finished with the hug. - I propose to make a sortie from the rocket and take a good look around.
“I suggest you eat first and then look around,” Donut answered with a pleasant smile.
Your proposal, dear friend, is accepted,” Dunno politely agreed. - Let me wish you bon appetit.
Thank you! “I wish you a pleasant meal too,” Donut answered, smiling broadly.
After exchanging pleasantries, the friends went down to the food compartment. There they ate leisurely, after which they went up to the compartment where the space suits were stored. Having selected spacesuits that suited their height, the friends began to put them on.
Each of these spacesuits consisted of three parts: a space suit, a hermetic helmet and space boots. The space suit was made of metal plates and rings connected by flexible, airtight, silver-colored space plastic. On the back of the overalls there was a backpack in which an air-purifying and ventilation device was placed, as well as an electric battery that supplied current to an electric flashlight, which was mounted on the chest. An automatic folding parachute hood was placed above the backpack, which opened, if necessary, in the manner of wings.
The hermetic helmet was worn on the head and was made of rigid cosmic plastic, bound with stainless steel. In the front part of the helmet there was a round window, or porthole, made of unbreakable glass, and inside there was a small radio station with a telephone device through which it was possible to communicate in airless space. As for space boots, they were almost no different from ordinary boots, except that their soles were made of a special heat-insulating substance.
It is worth mentioning that behind the back of the space suit there was a hiking backpack, and to the belt, in addition to a folding alpenstock and a surveying hammer, a space umbrella was attached to protect from the scorching rays of the sun. This umbrella was made of refractory aluminum and, when folded, took up no more space than a regular rain umbrella.
Having put on the overalls, Dunno felt that it fit his body quite tightly, and the pressure helmet was so spacious that Dunno’s head could easily fit in it along with his hat.
Having dressed in space suits and checked the operation of radiotelephone communications, our travelers descended into the tail section of the rocket and found themselves in front of the airlock door. Dunno took Donut by the hand and pressed the button. The door opened silently. The friends stepped forward and found themselves in the airlock. The door closed silently behind them. Now only one door separated our travelers from the lunar world.
Dunno involuntarily lingered in front of this door.
What will this mysterious, unknown world of the Moon turn out to be? How will he meet the uninvited strangers? Will spacesuits provide reliable protection in airless space? After all, one small crack, one small hole in the suit was enough for the air to escape from under it, and then the travelers were in danger of imminent death.
These thoughts flashed through Dunno’s head with lightning speed. But he did not give in to fear. As if to cheer Donut up, he put one arm around his shoulder and with the other hand pressed the button on the door. But the door did not open, as Dunno expected. Only a tiny hole in the door opened. The space inside the airlock connected with the external airless space, and the air in the airlock chamber began to whistle free. Dunno and Donut felt that the overalls, which had previously fit tightly to the body, suddenly began to become more spacious, as if they were swelling. This was explained by the fact that the outside air pressure disappeared and the walls of the spacesuits began to experience only air pressure from the inside. Not understanding what had happened, Donut imagined that the suit on him had burst, and this frightened him so much that he staggered and began to fall on his side. Dunno carefully supported him by the arm and said:
Stand up straight! Nothing bad yet!
At this time, the air finally left the airlock chamber, and the outer door automatically opened.
Seeing the light flashing ahead, Dunno commanded:
And now boldly forward!
Chapter first
How Znayka defeated Professor Zvezdochkin
Two and a half years have passed since Dunno traveled to the Sunny City. Although for you and me this is not so much, but for little runts, two and a half years is a very long time. After listening to the stories of Dunno, Knopochka and Pachkuli Pestrenky, many of the shorties also made a trip to the Sunny City, and when they returned, they decided to make some improvements at home. Flower City has changed since then so much that it is now unrecognizable. Many new, large and very beautiful houses appeared in it. According to the design of the architect Vertibutylkin, even two revolving buildings were built on Kolokolchikov Street. One is five-story, tower-type, with a spiral descent and a swimming pool around (by going down the spiral descent, one could dive straight into the water), the other is six-story, with swinging balconies, a parachute tower and a ferris wheel on the roof. A lot of cars, spiral vehicles, tube planes, aerohydromotos, tracked all-terrain vehicles and other various vehicles appeared on the streets.
And that's not all, of course. Residents of the Sunny City learned that the short guys from the Flower City were engaged in construction, and came to their aid: they helped them build several so-called industrial enterprises. According to the design of the engineer Klepka, a large clothing factory was built, which produced a wide variety of clothes, from rubber bras to winter fur coats made of synthetic fiber. Now no one had to slog with a needle to sew the most ordinary trousers or jacket. At the factory, everything was done for short machines. Finished products, as in Sunny City, were distributed to stores, and there everyone took what they needed. All the concerns of the factory workers boiled down to coming up with new styles of clothes and making sure that nothing was produced that the public did not like.
Everyone was very pleased. The only one who suffered in this case was Donut. When Donut saw that he could now buy any thing he might need from the store, he began to wonder why he needed all that pile of suits that had accumulated in his home. All these costumes were also out of fashion, and they could not be worn anyway. Choosing a darker night, Donut tied his old suits in a huge knot, secretly took them out of the house and drowned them in the Cucumber River, and instead of them he got himself new suits from the stores. It ended up that his room turned into some kind of warehouse for ready-made clothes. The suits were in his closet, on the closet, on the table, under the table, on bookshelves, hanging on the walls, on the backs of chairs, and even under the ceiling, on strings.
Such an abundance of woolen products in the house infested moths, and to prevent them from gnawing the suits, Donut had to poison them daily with mothballs, which gave such a strong smell to the room that it knocked the unusual little man off his feet. The donut itself smelled of this stupefying smell, but he got so used to it that he even stopped noticing it. For others, however, the smell was very noticeable. As soon as Donut came to visit someone, the owners immediately began to feel dizzy from stupor. The donut was immediately driven away and all the windows and doors were quickly opened wide to ventilate the room, otherwise you could faint or go crazy. For the same reason, Donut didn’t even have the opportunity to play with the shorties in the yard. As soon as he went out into the yard, everyone around them began to spit and, holding their noses with their hands, rushed to run away from him in different directions without looking back. Nobody wanted to hang out with him. Needless to say, this was terribly offensive for Donut, and he had to take all the costumes he didn’t need to the attic.
However, that was not the main thing. The main thing was that Znayka also visited the Sunny City. There he met the little scientists Fuchsia and Herring, who at that time were preparing their second flight to the Moon. Znayka also got involved in the work of building a space rocket and, when the rocket was ready, made an interplanetary journey with Fuchsia and Herring. Having arrived on the Moon, our brave travelers examined one of the small lunar craters in the area of the lunar Sea of Clarity, visited the cave that was located in the center of this crater, and made observations of changes in gravity. On the Moon, as is known, gravity is much less than on Earth, and therefore observations of changes in gravity are of great scientific importance. Having spent about four hours on the moon. Znayka and his companions were forced to quickly set off on the return journey, since their air supplies were running out. Everyone knows that there is no air on the Moon and, in order not to suffocate, you should always take a supply of air with you. In condensed form, of course.
Returning to Flower City, Znayka talked a lot about his journey. His stories were of great interest to everyone, and especially to the astronomer Steklyashkin, who had observed the Moon more than once through a telescope. Using his telescope, Steklyashkin was able to see that the surface of the Moon was not flat, but mountainous, and many of the mountains on the Moon were not like those on Earth, but for some reason were round, or rather, ring-shaped. Scientists call these ring mountains lunar craters, or circuses. To understand what such a lunar circus, or crater, looks like, imagine a huge circular field, twenty, thirty, fifty, or even a hundred kilometers across, and imagine that this huge circular field is surrounded by an earthen rampart or mountain only two or three kilometers high , - and so you get a lunar circus, or a crater. There are thousands of such craters on the Moon. There are small ones - about two kilometers, but there are also gigantic ones - up to one hundred and forty kilometers in diameter.
