Adaptation of Russell Hoban's novel about two mechanical toy mice, and their quest to become "self-winding".
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00:00:00You
00:00:30I
00:00:55Tree
00:01:00Water tell me my name
00:01:06What am I here for
00:01:09And always
00:01:12As I walk under the umbrella of the sky
00:01:20I wonder why
00:01:24And who am I
00:01:27I must be someone
00:01:33Stars overhead
00:01:37Silently glowing
00:01:41Tell me my name
00:01:45Where am I going
00:01:48There must be
00:01:51Out in the world
00:01:53It somehow seems I have to run
00:01:59Someone who'll smile
00:02:03And know my name
00:02:07And who will take me home
00:02:53Stars overhead
00:03:03Silently glowing
00:03:07Tell me my name
00:03:11Where am I going
00:03:14There must be
00:03:17Out in the world
00:03:19It somehow seems I have to run
00:03:25Someone who'll smile
00:03:29And know my name
00:03:33And who will take me home
00:03:49Out in the world
00:04:19Out in the world
00:04:49Out in the world
00:05:20Out in the world
00:05:34Midnight
00:05:49Out in the world
00:06:05Papa?
00:06:06Yes, son?
00:06:07Where are we?
00:06:08I don't know, son.
00:06:10Papa?
00:06:13What are we?
00:06:14I... I don't know that either, son.
00:06:17We'll just have to wait and see.
00:06:19Cute, but not very bright.
00:06:21Oh, they're new.
00:06:22What can you expect?
00:06:24Anyway, I think they're rather attractive.
00:06:26For mice.
00:06:29Where you are, little one, is a toy shop.
00:06:32What you are is toy mice.
00:06:34Extra, extra.
00:06:35Senate investigation. Job picture in question.
00:06:38Some observers suggest...
00:06:39Reliable sources deny.
00:06:41Oh, uh, don't mind them.
00:06:43Poor dears.
00:06:44Their heads are made of newspaper.
00:06:46They just say whatever comes to their mind.
00:06:48You'll get used to it, kid.
00:06:50The Dow Jones averages are off.
00:06:52Prices flash.
00:06:53Everything must go.
00:06:55Buyer sales.
00:06:56Christmas sales.
00:06:57Is this our home?
00:06:59Oh, my, no.
00:07:00One day soon, someone will buy you.
00:07:03Does everybody get bought?
00:07:05Bought, worked, ruled, stayed.
00:07:07Clearly all toys carried away by bonafide buyers.
00:07:12Think you got anything on the ball?
00:07:14At all?
00:07:15It's out the door.
00:07:21Quite right.
00:07:22Sooner or later, everything must go.
00:07:24And so will you.
00:07:25Out into the world.
00:07:34I think we'd rather stay here.
00:07:36Wouldn't we, Papa?
00:07:38Thinking not part of your job.
00:07:40Honey, they don't give you a choice.
00:07:43But we could be a family.
00:07:46A family?
00:07:47A family?
00:07:48Come on now, kid.
00:07:49Let's not get carried away.
00:07:51But why not?
00:07:52And we could all stay together.
00:07:55Clockwork rules.
00:07:56You do what you're wound to do.
00:07:59Not what you want to do.
00:08:02She balances a ball.
00:08:05She walks back and forth and swings her trunk.
00:08:10He jumps out of a bus.
00:08:14And you dance in circles.
00:08:17But, but I don't...
00:08:19You dance in a circle.
00:08:21You get stretched and squeezed and covered with jam and lost in the yard.
00:08:26You get left out in the rain.
00:08:28You get baked in the oven.
00:08:30And you get locked in the freezer.
00:08:31And then you get drowned in the bathtub.
00:08:33That's if you're lucky.
00:08:35Otherwise, the price barrels.
00:08:41I, I don't, I don't want to.
00:08:44I don't want to leave him.
00:08:46But we will leave him.
00:08:48We'll go out into the world.
00:08:50But we will leave him.
00:08:52We'll become a family.
00:08:54But the rules are a rabbit hole.
00:08:57Watch out.
00:08:59Watch out.
00:09:10Extra late night final.
00:09:19Possibility of showers in the late evening.
00:09:21The Dow Jones averages are off.
00:09:23The heartbreak of psoriasis.
00:09:25A touching drama the whole family will enjoy.
00:09:28Oh, shut up.
00:09:30Clockwork rules.
00:09:36Paragraph seven.
00:09:38No crying on or off the job.
00:09:41Papa?
00:10:05Yes, son?
00:10:07Is this the world?
00:10:09I don't know, son.
00:10:31Papa?
00:10:32Yes, son?
00:10:34Is this the world?
00:10:36I hope not.
00:10:48No.
00:11:17Papa?
00:11:37Papa?
00:11:45Papa?
00:11:58Papa?
00:12:22Papa?
00:12:37Be tramps.
00:12:52So this is the world.
00:12:54And we're out in it and it's all my fault.
00:12:56No, no, son.
00:12:57It had to happen sooner or later.
00:13:00Though walking straight ahead does feel strange.
00:13:03I don't mind walking backwards, Papa.
00:13:06At least it's better than going in circles.
00:13:10Not if there's no one around to wind you.
00:13:14I'm not afraid, Papa.
00:13:16I'm not afraid.
00:13:21Oh, Papa, I'm scared.
00:13:24I am too, son.
00:13:41Papa, I'm afraid.
00:13:43I want to go home.
00:13:44What's going to happen to us?
00:13:46Well, something good, son.
00:13:48As easily as something ill.
00:13:50Why, anything can happen.
00:13:53But it won't.
00:13:55Not this evening, my lads.
00:13:58Your host,
00:14:00Emmanuel Wolfington Ratt III.
00:14:04How do you do?
00:14:05A mouse and child.
00:14:11Two innocents abroad, eh?
00:14:13But for me, you'll be flattened to a fairly well.
00:14:18Why, thank you, Mr. Ratt.
00:14:20That was...
00:14:21Excellent.
00:14:22Oh, good.
00:14:23Very good indeed.
00:14:25Charming, charming.
00:14:27Absolutely right.
00:14:29What are you doing?
00:14:30Oh, getting to know you, my boy.
00:14:33Keeping in touch.
00:14:37Where are you taking us?
00:14:39I want to go home.
00:14:40The very place I had in mind.
00:14:42Come along now, my lovelies.
00:14:44I'm taking you home.
00:14:45We're going back to the toy shop?
00:14:47I don't think that's the home he's talking about.
00:15:17I don't think that's the home he's talking about.
00:15:47I don't think that's the home he's talking about.
00:16:17I don't think that's the home he's talking about.
00:16:43Scat Rat knows what life is all about.
00:16:45Scat Rat really has a digger doubt.
00:16:47He dances a bassoon, a dixie board, jet tech.
00:16:50And every second Booty Sticky pays the check.
00:16:53Scat Rat really has his fortune made.
00:16:55He's the piper that the tuna played.
00:16:58He's sharper than a sickle on a flag.
00:17:00Hey, Manny.
00:17:01How's it going?
00:17:02Good evening.
00:17:08He's the slyest guy around.
00:17:13Watch those tomcats give him ground.
00:17:18All the mice fall at his feet.
00:17:25But he comes jiving down the street.
00:17:28Scat Rat's boring and his high ideals.
00:17:31He can't prove a comedic seal.
00:17:33He muses on the mystery of May as well.
00:17:36Because of all the history, oh, so they tell.
00:17:38Scat Rat seem to garland Bono's dues.
00:17:41He's always yowling like a sack of shoes.
00:17:43And if his market's any brighter than today, he may blow a fuse.
00:17:46Scat Rat never gonna blow the blues.
00:17:57I said that if his market's any brighter than today, he may blow a fuse.
00:18:00Scat Rat never gonna blow the blues.
00:18:06Scat Rat!
00:18:08Cheese moles, white or green, good for colds, fevers, human bites.
00:18:13Caviar, Manny.
00:18:14Six weeks old, at least.
00:18:16And don't suppose you'd have a smidge of treacle brittle.
00:18:21I do fancy treacle brittle.
00:18:24That imported stuff?
00:18:26Hard to come by.
00:18:27I know where there is some, though.
00:18:29Stashed in a bowl.
00:18:31Over at the Meadow Horde and Trust Company.
00:18:33Meadow Horde and Trust.
00:18:35Oh.
00:18:36How's business?
00:18:37Easy.
00:18:38Da-da-da-da!
00:18:39Da-da-da-da!
00:18:42Honest pilgrims who've lost your way.
00:18:45Are you buffeted by fate?
00:18:48Trifled with thy destiny?
00:18:51By the grace of Osmondes, you have come to the right place.
00:18:55I, Frog, will lift the veil that hides the future.
00:19:00I, Frog, will show you the path to follow.
00:19:04I, Frog.
00:19:07Hi, Manny.
00:19:09How much tonight, friend Frog?
00:19:12Well, it's been very slow, boss.
00:19:15These are hard times for oracles.
00:19:17For incompetent ones.
00:19:19Are you saying that my charms don't work?
00:19:23That my potions don't heal?
00:19:26That my fortunes are false?
00:19:28Of course.
00:19:29That's why I hired you.
00:19:32One beetle.
00:19:34One measly beetle.
00:19:37Frog, you're fired.
00:19:39For being a fraud?
00:19:41For being a failure as a fraud.
00:19:44Frog!
00:19:46Out of my sight!
00:19:50I'm sorry you had to see that.
00:20:03Oh, modest, I admit.
00:20:07Even humble.
00:20:09But didn't Lincoln start out in a log cabin?
00:20:13Yes, he did.
00:20:15And I have my plans.
00:20:17I have my plans.
00:20:20An empire built on these.
00:20:24The sharpest teeth in the world.
00:20:28Built on these.
00:20:30The sharpest teeth in the dump.
00:20:34One day, one day, it will all be mine.
00:20:39And what will you do with us?
00:20:42We're Manny's Marauders on the marsh.
00:20:54We're Manny's Marauders on the marsh.
00:20:57Papa, are they wind-ups like us?
00:21:01Not anymore.
00:21:04So don't get in the way of Manny's Marauders on the marsh.
00:21:13Hi, boss.
00:21:32Great night.
00:21:33But that donkey, he's good for nothing.
00:21:35Not even a jealousy.
00:21:37I just can't do it anymore.
00:21:40I can't.
00:21:41Did I hear a complaint?
00:21:44Perhaps a hint of truculence?
00:21:48Unhappy in your work?
00:21:52Unhappy in your work?
00:21:55Dissatisfied getting on in years, eh?
00:22:00I'll retire you.
00:22:03Ralphie!
00:22:05Oh, Ralphie, my boy.
00:22:07These spare parts.
00:22:10Unhinge him.
00:22:12No, no, I'll work.
00:22:14I won't complain.
00:22:15Honest, I'll...
00:22:16No, no, no, I'll...
00:22:18Please don't!
00:22:20Oh, no!
00:22:23Ow!
00:22:26That was horrible.
00:22:28You're a bad rat.
00:22:29You noticed.
00:22:31Now, my gallant foragers, happy, content?
00:22:35We love you, Mammy.
00:22:38A warm welcome for the new members of our little family.
00:22:45Now, uh, Ralphie, I've rather a delicate mission for you.
00:22:49Delicate?
00:22:50We're on to some treacle brittle.
00:22:53Imported.
00:22:57Treacle brittle?
00:22:58In the vault at Meadow Hoard and Trust.
00:23:01Ah, Meadow Hoard.
00:23:02Okay.
00:23:03Here, now take these two along.
00:23:05And those two.
00:23:07Now, now, now listen carefully.
00:23:09First thing in the morning.
00:23:10One, two.
00:23:12First thing you...
00:23:22Let's see.
00:23:23First thing I go, uh, in the morning, I go to the, um, uh, the guard.
00:23:28No, the manager.
00:23:30Son, don't help him.
00:23:32They'll make a Steve soon enough.
00:23:34Oh, right.
00:23:35The manager.
00:23:36Then I slug him.
00:23:37Pow!
00:23:40Huh?
00:23:41Who's that?
00:23:42Destiny!
00:23:45Hi, Ralphie boy.
00:23:47Oh, it's you.
00:23:48Out of my way, frog.
00:23:49Fortune told, Ralphie?
00:23:51No, you old fake.
00:23:54Hey, wind-ups, come back here.
00:23:57How about your friends?
00:23:59Ah, we meet again.
00:24:01Can I tell you a fortune?
00:24:02Give me a poem.
00:24:04We don't have one.
00:24:08Can't read your hands?
00:24:10Well, no matter.
00:24:11I'll just read your feet.
00:24:12Their feet?
00:24:14An ancient form of divination taught to me by the praying mantis of the Babylonian persuasion.
00:24:21Oh, go ahead.
00:24:22I need a minute to think anyway.
00:24:24At least.
00:24:26Now, where were we?
00:24:28Ah, yes.
00:24:30What would you have from the future?
00:24:32It could be anything you like.
00:24:35I want the elephant to be my mama.
00:24:37You what?
00:24:39And the seal to be my sister.
00:24:41And we'll all live together in the toy store.
00:24:43An elephant.
00:24:44That's rather a large order.
00:24:48And you?
00:24:49I don't want anything given to me.
00:24:51I want something taken away.
00:24:52What's that?
00:24:53Our key.
00:24:54The world being what it is, we'd be better off if we were free to wind ourselves.
00:24:59Free?
00:25:00Is that the key?
00:25:01Well, let's see what fate has in store.
00:25:29Now, walk through it.
00:25:39Destiny, best in me, power divine.
00:25:43Destiny, answer me.
00:25:45Truth will be...
00:25:47Ah, fine.
00:25:48Yeah.
00:25:49Truth will be fine for a change.
00:25:51Tell me, is love life's folly?
00:25:54Shall we cry or be jolly?
00:25:57Cosmogorical fate.
00:26:00Speak, lift the weight.
00:26:03Come on, it's late.
00:26:04I got a date.
00:26:06Dust of the devils.
00:26:08Dumb doom.
00:26:10Trust in the angels.
00:26:12Boom, boom.
00:26:15Bippity.
00:26:18Boppity.
00:26:21A great line emerges.
00:26:23Follow it.
00:26:24Where?
00:26:26Here.
00:26:27Hmm, now that's odd.
00:26:30You've made a circle.
00:26:32That's never happened before.
00:26:34Hmm.
00:26:44The road is long.
00:26:47Very hard.
00:26:49Bitter winter.
00:26:50Shattering spring.
00:26:54A winding road to scattering.
00:26:57A broken path to regathering.
00:27:02The enemy you flee at the beginning awaits you at the end.
00:27:11Wow, that's some act, Frog.
00:27:14Never seen you in better form.
00:27:17What does it all mean?
00:27:19I don't know.
00:27:21Mean?
00:27:22You gotta be kidding.
00:27:23Frog don't mean nothing.
00:27:25Told me I'd meet a tall, dark stranger and go away on a long journey.
00:27:29Ha, what's it mean?
00:27:31That's a hot one.
00:27:32Come on, wind-ups.
00:27:33We got work to do.
00:27:38Hey, it worked.
00:27:39It worked.
00:27:40For the first time in my life, it worked.
00:27:43I saw the future.
00:27:45I spoke the truth.
00:27:48How strange it feels to speak the truth.
00:27:52How odd.
00:27:53How delicious.
00:27:55I like it.
00:28:00I like it.
00:28:01I like it.
00:28:02I like it.
00:28:03I like it.
00:28:16Let's see now.
00:28:17First, I go into the, what was it now?
00:28:21I don't remember.
00:28:39Yes?
00:28:40Can I help you?
00:28:41Okay.
00:28:42This is a stick.
00:28:44Up.
00:28:45Where's the treacle brittle?
00:28:48Right this way.
00:28:51Well, hurry up.
00:28:52Open it.
00:28:54Certainly.
00:29:08Want a break for lunch?
00:29:10No, thanks.
00:29:11Just ate.
00:29:14Excuse me.
00:29:17Now what?
00:29:18We surely can't go back.
00:29:20But one choice then.
00:29:21We'll go forward.
00:29:23Mr. Frog.
00:29:24I'll go frog to you, if you'll help me.
00:29:27Papa, I think he wants to be friends.
00:29:30Can you help us?
00:29:31I like it.
00:29:33The seeds of our fate.
00:29:35They're sown in one furrow.
00:29:38The threads of our destiny pound eternally.
00:29:42My warp woven with your woof.
00:29:45What?
00:29:46In a word, yes.
00:29:48I'd like to help you.
00:29:50But the road is long, remember?
00:29:52And very hard.
00:29:53Oh, we can travel it together.
00:29:55I'll keep you well.
00:29:57You keep me?
00:29:58Company.
00:29:59That sounds fair.
00:30:00Where shall we begin?
00:30:01Well, we can start by finding a sister.
00:30:04His sister?
00:30:05The tin seal.
00:30:06Don't you have a sister who's a tin seal?
00:30:08Well...
00:30:09Or is it your mother?
00:30:10Anyway, I heard there's just such a seal
00:30:13playing in a show over in the hollow wood.
00:30:16Could be the very one you're looking for.
00:30:19Yes, indeed.
00:30:20An actress in the hollow wood.
00:30:23A tin seal.
00:30:24In tinsel tin.
00:30:26Extra! Extra! Late addition!
00:30:30Rats lying in hold up attempt!
00:30:32Wind-ups flee with drop out frog!
00:30:35Eight scores with mice lead Meadow Team
00:30:38six to two in the third quarter!
00:30:41Idiot Ralph.
00:30:43Turncoat frog.
00:30:45Can't let those foul wind-ups get away.
00:30:49If one is gone, maybe two will follow.
00:30:52What's worse, no creakle brittle.
00:30:55Make me the laughing stock of the dump, would they.
00:30:59Not after I get my claws on them.
00:31:02I think I offered them a half and home.
00:31:06Those wind-ups will wind up scrap
00:31:09and friend frog will be frog legs.
00:31:13I would like to make a withdrawal.
00:31:34Cash or...
00:31:35Creakle brittle!
00:32:02Up there across the street.
00:32:04The hollow wood.
00:32:32Out for a stroll, are we?
00:32:57How about a ride?
00:33:07And how about your friend frog?
00:33:10Would you care to join us?
00:33:13Me?
00:33:15Let me tell your fortune, Manny.
00:33:17Won't take a moment.
00:33:19Why not?
00:33:20Since I'm the only one here who has one.
00:33:25I see a dog.
00:33:27Rising.
00:33:29A dog shall rise.
00:33:31A rat shall fall.
00:33:33That's enough, frog.
00:33:35One more word out of you and I'll tear your throat out.
00:33:40Go on, say it.
00:33:42One more word.
00:33:53Get away from me, you little beasties.
00:34:00Shrews, they look hungry.
00:34:02To be, frog.
00:34:05Do we fight for love or glory?
00:34:08No, no, we fight for territory.
00:34:11Fight, fight, fight.
00:34:13Do we fight for love or glory?
00:34:16No, no, we fight for territory.
00:34:19Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.
00:34:25Fight, fight, fight, fight.
00:34:30Do we fight for love or glory?
00:34:33No, no, we fight for territory.
00:34:36Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight.
00:35:03Uncle frog, you promised to stay with us forever.
00:35:18There's been a slight change of plan.
00:35:33Late bulletin.
00:35:45Battle in the meadow results in, in victory, victory.
00:35:51But who won?
00:35:53Beats me.
00:35:59Frog lifts the veil.
00:36:11La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
00:36:39Oh, my poor feet.
00:36:41This miserable weather.
00:36:43If it weren't in the cause of art,
00:36:46I'm sure I wouldn't be able to go on another moment.
00:36:49Oh, my feet are freezing.
00:36:53Help.
00:36:54Help.
00:36:55Help us, please.
00:36:56We're stuck.
00:36:57What?
00:36:58So you are?
00:36:59You're mice.
00:37:01We can't move.
00:37:03Darling, I know just how you feel.
00:37:06I've been stranded in worse places myself.
00:37:10You will succeed.
00:37:14Maybe this will do it.
00:37:16Come on, you two.
00:37:17Success is just around the corner.
00:37:32My dear friends,
00:37:34I have just found two new members for our acting group.
00:37:38Fantastic.
00:37:39Fantastic.
00:37:40On ice, no less.
00:37:42But we don't want to be actors.
00:37:44What do you mean?
00:37:45Everybody wants to be actors.
00:37:48Not us.
00:37:49We came here to find our friend, the tin seal.
00:37:52The tin seal.
00:37:53Oh, don't talk to me about her.
00:37:55Don't even mention her name in my presence.
00:37:57Built my whole show around her.
00:38:00And what does she do?
00:38:02What did she do?
00:38:03Ran off, darlings, a long time ago with a muskrat.
00:38:08And tonight we open with...
00:38:10The wooded chucks.
00:38:11Revenge, please.
00:38:13Fantastic.
00:38:14Fantastic.
00:38:15Banker Ratsnake forecloses on the mortgage.
00:38:17Ah, Banker Ratsnake, what a new path.
00:38:20The last visible dog.
00:38:22Everyone know their line.
00:38:24I can't pay the rent.
00:38:25We can't pay the rent.
00:38:27The last visible...
00:38:28You must pay the rent.
00:38:30We can't pay the rent.
00:38:32The dog.
00:38:44Extra.
00:38:45Cause of Art Experimental Theater presents...
00:38:48The Last Visible Dog.
00:38:50Wind-up's debut in brand new show.
00:38:55Can they act?
00:39:00Dog.
00:39:02Dog.
00:39:03Dog.
00:39:04Dog.
00:39:05Dog.
00:39:06Dog.
00:39:09Dog.
00:39:10Dog.
00:39:13Dog.
00:39:14Dog.
00:39:15Dog.
00:39:17Dog.
00:39:18Dog.
00:39:19Dog.
00:39:20Invisible dog is searching.
00:39:22Looking.
00:39:23A dogged search.
00:39:24A seeing.
00:39:25All life is a search.
00:39:27Inward.
00:39:28Outward.
00:39:29Onward searching.
00:39:31For truth.
00:39:32For beauty.
00:39:39Back the bird.
00:39:40Go on, kids.
00:39:41Save it.
00:39:43Dog searching.
00:39:45A tireless pursuit of search.
00:39:47Yes, we're looking for...
00:39:48Yes.
00:39:49A seal.
00:39:50Yes, life's a seal.
00:39:51And an elephant.
00:39:52An elephant.
00:39:53Beautiful.
00:39:54We're not the only ones who are looking.
00:39:57Villain Rat-Sneak.
00:39:59You're on, sweetheart.
00:40:02Get out of there, you bum!
00:40:07What seek you, Rat-Sneak?
00:40:10Rat-Sneak.
00:40:12Rat-Sneak?
00:40:13And what if I am?
00:40:15Hath not a rat pride?
00:40:17He's looking.
00:40:19Hath not a rat honor?
00:40:21Leery.
00:40:22When you prick us, do we not bleed?
00:40:26Slinking.
00:40:27Indeed.
00:40:28He's skulking.
00:40:30What a noble piece of work is Rat.
00:40:33What a man!
00:40:41I warned them about those modern dramas.
00:40:45By the way, you two were quite good.
00:40:50You could have a future in the theater.
00:40:52You could go far.
00:40:53Oh, we've been far.
00:40:55Can I drop you someplace?
00:40:57On our home, please.
00:40:58If you can find it.
00:41:00Son, you just don't understand.
00:41:03But everybody has one, Papa.
00:41:05And we'll find ours.
00:41:07Not with a key in our back.
00:41:09You want to be self-winding?
00:41:11We do indeed.
00:41:13Why didn't you say so in the first place, darling?
00:41:16I know just the one to help you.
00:41:18Does wing lifts.
00:41:19Key transplants.
00:41:21Same place the tin seal went.
00:41:22She may still be there.
00:41:25Biggest brain in the pond.
00:41:27If he can't help you, nobody can.
00:41:31Good luck, sweethearts.
00:41:33Bye.
00:41:34Goodbye, and thank you.
00:41:37Break a leg!
00:41:55Much times little equals...
00:41:58Who's there?
00:41:59Destiny.
00:42:00Oh, how nice of you to stop by.
00:42:03Destiny?
00:42:04Has many faces.
00:42:05Well, come in.
00:42:07Ah, you have a key.
00:42:09Oh, it's just like hers.
00:42:11A former student of mine.
00:42:13Tin seal.
00:42:14You know her?
00:42:15That's why we're here.
00:42:16Oh, we were close once, yes.
00:42:18Where is she now?
00:42:19I made herself winding.
00:42:21Could you make us self-winding?
00:42:22And then we could find her.
00:42:23She ran off with a traveling flea circus.
00:42:26Destiny has many roads.
00:42:28And she took one of them.
00:42:34And what is your problem?
00:42:35Self-winding.
00:42:36Ah, yes.
00:42:37Self times winding equals...
00:42:41Go.
00:42:42There you are, self-winding.
00:42:43That's just it.
00:42:45We aren't.
00:42:47Self-winding.
00:42:48We want to be self-winding.
00:42:50Self-winding.
00:42:51We want you to make us that way.
00:42:53Me?
00:42:55I don't do that sort of work anymore.
00:42:58My life is now devoted to...
00:43:01Don't tell me.
00:43:02Don't tell me.
00:43:03Research.
00:43:04That's it.
00:43:05Pure research.
00:43:06Well then, it's time we were on our way.
00:43:08Would you wind us, please?
00:43:10My latest discovery.
00:43:12The ripples from it are sure to be felt throughout the pond.
00:43:15You've heard of it, of course.
00:43:16Must scratch much in little theory.
00:43:19Yes, sir.
00:43:20Y times how equals what?
00:43:22The key to advanced promissory calculus.
00:43:24I'm sorry.
00:43:25We've never heard of it.
00:43:28Nor has anybody else.
00:43:30Future generations above and below the pond will thank me for it.
00:43:34But I just wish somebody would notice it now.
00:43:39Think of Galileo.
00:43:41Think of Einstein.
00:43:44Think of Herbert Hoover.
00:43:50Beavers, beavers, beavers, beavers, beavers, beavers.
00:43:53They get noticed.
00:43:54Maybe nobody notices much in little because they don't understand it.
00:43:58If you could show them what it means.
00:44:00Give them a practical demonstration.
00:44:02We'll help you.
00:44:03If you'll help us.
00:44:14Beavers ready for spring expansion.
00:44:18They do seem to get a lot of attention.
00:44:21Have they made ripples in the pond?
00:44:23Ripples?
00:44:24Have they made ripples in the pond?
00:44:27They made the pond.
00:44:33Beavers times non times tree equals tree fall.
00:44:36Guess that makes everybody take notice.
00:44:40Y times how equals what?
00:44:44What plus what into what?
00:44:47Eureka!
00:44:48I've got it.
00:44:49And I alone thought it.
00:44:51Lever plus bow from plus ax.
00:44:55Ax times tree into how?
00:44:58Let me furrow my brow.
00:45:01Eureka!
00:45:02I knew it.
00:45:03A big spring will do it.
00:45:06Eureka!
00:45:07I knew it.
00:45:08A big spring will do it.
00:45:09Lever times spring into ax.
00:45:18Ah, but who pulls the spring?
00:45:21That's the critical thing.
00:45:24I have it precisely.
00:45:26The mice will do nicely.
00:45:28Lever times mice pulling spring.
00:45:31There.
00:45:32Theory plus windups times tree fall equals notice.
00:45:36Oh, how I envy you, your part in this.
00:45:39Remember, old muskrat, you promised.
00:45:42Promised?
00:45:43Oh, yes, to make you ongoing, ego spinning.
00:45:49Self winding.
00:45:51Ah, yes, yes.
00:45:53But when will that be?
00:45:54Why, as soon as it falls.
00:46:02Chop plus time equals smash.
00:46:05I will make such a splash.
00:46:08It's not pedagogic.
00:46:10It's practical logic.
00:46:13Mice times tree equals crash.
00:46:19Yes.
00:46:20Mice times tree times ax times me equals crash.
00:46:29Crash!
00:46:32Crash!
00:46:37Aw, come on, froggy.
00:46:39Tell my fortune.
00:46:40Not till I finish my knitting.
00:47:00Windups active in winter sports.
00:47:04But where?
00:47:06Where are those wretched windups?
00:47:11Miserable scraps of tin.
00:47:14How they confound me time after time.
00:47:18And to think what they could have had.
00:47:21What we could have meant to each other.
00:47:24Why, I'm the one that rescued them.
00:47:26I'm the one.
00:47:29They aren't even real.
00:47:31They're toys.
00:47:34Incy wincy teeny tiny toys.
00:47:39There's time I'll find them, though.
00:47:42I'll get you, villain rat snake.
00:47:47You are the villain, remember?
00:47:50Pesky pachyderm.
00:47:52Good for nothing.
00:47:53Not even a last meal.
00:47:55Should have left you in the trash where I found you.
00:47:58Oh, where was I?
00:48:01Who was I?
00:48:03Oh, no, no.
00:48:05Not back to the dump.
00:48:07They're laughing at me at the dump.
00:48:09I can't go back to the dump.
00:48:12Not until I unpin those windups and hinge them.
00:48:17Tear the fur from their little bodies.
00:48:19Scatter their cogs to the wind.
00:48:21And let them rust and rot into oblivion.
00:48:27You've had your fun, toys.
00:48:29Now, it's Manny's turn.
00:48:33Aha!
00:48:55Papa, look.
00:48:56Spring is coming.
00:48:58A time of hope for others, but not, I fear, for us.
00:49:02We'll be forever chopping this tree.
00:49:05Don't give up.
00:49:06We'll find the seal.
00:49:08Son, I have no choice.
00:49:11I, I feel the taint of rust in my motor.
00:49:15And it's spreading.
00:49:16Don't give up, Papa.
00:49:18Not now.
00:49:22They've stopped again.
00:49:33Splendid.
00:49:35Oh, splendid.
00:49:37Won't be long now.
00:49:39Um, Mr. Musgrave.
00:49:40No, no, don't thank me.
00:49:42I should thank you.
00:49:43For this would never have worked without your help.
00:49:45I should thank you.
00:49:46And I do.
00:50:02Shh!
00:50:03Shh!
00:50:04Shh!
00:50:05Shh!
00:50:06Shh!
00:50:07Shh!
00:50:08Shh!
00:50:20Wait for me!
00:50:22Hey, wait for me!
00:50:25Whoa!
00:50:34Whoa!
00:50:41Grr!
00:50:43Lucy, Lucy! Get a move on to the jam!
00:50:46What's the hurry, Pops?
00:50:48Follow that hawk. Hold on here. You're the one those wind-ups are looking for. I've found
00:51:05her. Zones. The world has sprung a leak. What's new? Y times how equals what? Ah, pond minus
00:51:17dam equals mud. That's not new. Mr. Hawk, where are you taking us? Lunch. What's lunch? Watch.
00:51:30Ah! You aren't part of the balance of nature.
00:52:00Nothing but junk in this part of the pond. Are you all right, son? Yes, papa. Papa, a
00:52:25tinsel can. We survive robbery, war, flood, show business, only to come to this. A watery
00:52:36grave with the last visible dog. Who dares to interrupt my contemplation of infinity?
00:52:45Hello? What are you doing in my domain? Are you looking for infinity? No, dry land. Please,
00:52:54take us to the surface. And wind us up? Wind you up? Hmm. In what sense? In the sense of
00:53:01a key in my back. What does it do? Key times winding equals go. Go? Go where? This mud
00:53:12being like other mud, we may assume that by staying here, we are at the same time everywhere.
00:53:20I.E., winding is futile. How are we going to find the seal again? And the elephant?
00:53:26Impossible. Windups, you are in very deep water, philosophically speaking. Note well
00:53:34an endlessness of little dogs receding to progressive diminution to a revelation of
00:53:41the ultimate truth. Huh? Here, in the work sighted beyond, the last visible dog. It's
00:53:50odd you should say that. There's a play by that name. I am the author of that play, C.
00:53:55Serpentina, thinker, scholar, playwright, and voice of Swamp and Pond. How do you do?
00:54:00A mouse and child. No doubt you'll find it astonishing that a thinker of my depth should
00:54:06have conceived anything so light and diverting, so riotously entertaining, so popular in its
00:54:13appeal. There was certainly a great deal of excitement the night we saw it. It brought
00:54:18the audience to its feet from the beginning. That doesn't surprise me in the least. Somewhere
00:54:24beyond the smallest dog, the last of them, is infinity. See if you can find it. If we
00:54:33find it, will you help us out of the pond? Oh, each of us, sunk in the mud however deep,
00:54:41must rise on the propulsion of his own thought. Each of us must journey through the dogs beyond
00:54:50the dots into the truth alone. Does that mean you'll help us? Best not to ask.
00:55:03There's one and another and oh, I've lost track. There's one and another and a third
00:55:19and one more and another. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
00:55:40ten. Oh, drat, I lost track. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
00:56:09Let's see. First there's one and another and then, Papa, I can see it now. I can see what's
00:56:22beyond the last visible dog. Is it infinity, son? I think so. What does it look like? Well,
00:56:29it has two beady eyes and whiskers and, Papa, it's us. And me. Tinseel. Lucille, child. Is it
00:56:39you? Come on, my mascara's running. It is, it is. Where did you come from? Have we really
00:56:45found you? Ha. Oh, silly. I found you. Gotcha. Well, good bird. Good fellow. Destiny's child.
00:57:02You alone have ensnarled the tangled threads of mingled fates and woven them together in
00:57:09the warp and woof of their preordained design. Ah, what? Well, you got them on the line.
00:57:30Mouse, child. Uncle Frog. My true friend. Oh, Tinseel, I knew we'd find you. I knew it. I just knew it.
00:57:43And this is the kingfish. How do you do? You two should leave fishing to those as knows how. Hey,
00:57:50kids, you are a mess. Oh, Uncle Frog, it is coming true. All of it. Not quite, my little lovelies. Not
00:58:02quite. It's nice to see you again. I have missed your company. No, no, you don't. Not this time,
00:58:16Mini-Ref. Yes, I do, Frog. This time. And any time. I tell you, any time. Aye, please.
00:58:32Mama.
00:58:56Mama.
00:59:26Farewell, dear silent friends. I'm sorry. I gave the best that I had. It just wasn't, just wasn't enough.
00:59:55Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof.
01:00:25Muskrat plus friendship equals hello, Lucille. Oh, there you are. I've been looking everywhere for you.
01:00:54You look awful. Well, ladies, I can't repair this kind of, I'm afraid. Oh, look at this mess.
01:01:19What's going on right there? They are insides or outside? Put them on the table. Gently, carefully. Are these all
01:01:39the pieces? Oh, dear. I tell you, I don't do this sort of work. I have to get on with my research. Hold his nose, will you?
01:02:02After careful digestion of this difficult question, I've reached the conviction of all the misfriction begun make the work run down.
01:02:15Fair time spring. Screwdriver. Wrench. Forceps. Five-seps. Six-seps.
01:02:29Since the spring must expand, then the mobile span. Put in the correction, reverse the direction, and wind is up as it runs down.
01:02:51Family plus friends minus he equals freedom, you see. And soon you will find you need no one to wind you. That is the key to freedom.
01:03:12Friends minus me, I'm family. Set you free, free, free. Set you free.
01:03:34Yay! Papa! Son! Oh, muskrat, thank you. You know, this could be my highest achievement. It's all coming true. It's just as you foretold, frog.
01:03:50But there's still one thing. What's that? My mama, the elephant. She's with Manny the rat. Well, then a rat must fall.
01:03:58Hey, you! Princess, get to work. Iggy, are those foragers moving? Yeah, sure, boss.
01:04:28Look, the dollhouse!
01:04:58And the toys. And the elephant. And a rat. Iggy, are the lights working? In a minute, sure, boss. Get back to your work, all of you.
01:05:29This will be a party the dump will never forget.
01:05:52We need a plan. We need a lot. What do you think, muskrat? Well, I... We need a lot. A lot. Hey, now, boys, we don't stand a chance. Make a gorge up there with spears. Spears? Spears? With poison tips.
01:06:08Still, we'll win. Win? Easy to say. How? Well, we've got a frog. A frog?
01:06:33A train!
01:06:44Yoo-hoo! You there! Hello! Yoo-hoo! Here, boy! You turfed! Oh, the young bones! Have you changed your mind about a career?
01:06:57On the road, are you? How I detest this constant travel. No. No, we're trying to get home. Well, I'm sure you'll make it. Shh! You've come this far. There. You will succeed.
01:07:15Oh, thank you. Why are we whispering? The rats will hear us. Rats? Come on, my dear. We will miss our date. We have a show to make. Oh, bother. Show, show, show. We must be going. Then go, Eric. I'm tired. I am staying. You can't be serious. Shh! Deadly. Oh, you terp. You'll stay and help? Better here than Philadelphia.
01:07:42Oh, that's the trouble with people today. No loyalty. First the seal, then the Starlings, and now you again. Avanti! Hey, Avanti! Oh, you can't leave me like this! Wait! Wait a minute!
01:08:04Oh!
01:08:34He's the slyest guy around. Watch those tomcats give him ground. All the mites fall at his feet.
01:08:52When he comes drivin' down the street, Scat-Rat, boy, it's hi-dee-doo. He uses on the mystery of May as well. He turns them all in mystery, or so they tell. Scat-Rat, see me, I'm blowin' his news. Always yowlin' in Sacko's shoes. And if the tomcat's any brighter than one day, he may blow a fuse. Scat-Rat, never gonna blow the blues.
01:09:19Oh!
01:09:50Hi, there. Can you do somethin' for me?
01:09:58Shhh!
01:10:10He's the slyest guy around. Watch those tomcats give him ground. All the mites fall at his feet. When he comes drivin' down the street, Scat-Rat, boy, it's hi-dee-doo. He uses on the mystery of May as well. He turns them all in mystery, or so they tell.
01:10:40Oh!
01:11:11Oh!
01:11:13Oh!
01:11:33Scat-Rat knows what life is all about. Scat-Rat really has a bigger doubt. He dances up the soon as Dixie boards a check.
01:11:41Ah, that's my cue.
01:11:47What are you doing there?
01:12:10A dog shall rise, a rat shall fall. The frog's prophecy, can it be coming true? Should I ever listen to him?
01:12:27Not this rat.
01:12:30Oh!
01:12:51Get him. They don't think they can get away with this after all.
01:12:57Rats, hear this. The hand of destiny is upon you. Resistance is useless.
01:13:07Out of the way, you old fool.
01:13:14Ah!
01:13:18My teeth, I'm finished. What is a rat with no teeth?
01:13:44Ah!
01:13:50Oh!
01:13:57Ah!
01:14:10Rats railroaded, wind-ups are winners.
01:14:15Yay!
01:14:36Ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:14:49Hey!
01:15:16A rat has fallen.
01:15:19What?
01:15:29A rat has jumped into the pond.
01:15:39A rat has got two horns and six eyes.
01:15:44Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
01:16:14I just want to hold your hand, salute you, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
01:16:42Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
01:17:12oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
01:17:42Be happy
01:17:57Wind in the trees
01:18:01Leaves on the water
01:18:05This is my name
01:18:09My name is laughter
01:18:12And always
01:18:15As I walk under the umbrella of the sky
01:18:22Warm in the sun
01:18:26I know that I
01:18:30Have become someone
01:18:36Stars overhead
01:18:40Silent and endless
01:18:44No one's alone
01:18:48No one is friendless
01:18:51I think of
01:18:54That wondrous world that I no longer have to roam
01:19:02And close the door
01:19:06Knowing my name
01:19:10And knowing this is home
01:19:32. . .
01:19:59Stars overhead
01:20:06Silent and endless
01:20:10No one's alone
01:20:14No one is friendless
01:20:17I think of
01:20:20That wondrous world that I no longer have to roam
01:20:27And close the door
01:20:31Knowing my name
01:20:35And knowing this is home
01:20:57. . .