In the original story, the only remains of the family is imprints on the side of the house that suggested they were playing ball outside. The imprints were caused by the nuclear bombs, of course.
It is heartening to know that, in the midst of Cold War tension and propaganda, Soviet/Russian artists did have appreciation for one of America's greatest writers. Ray Bradbury truly has a universal appeal.
@@Defender78 possibly its a kinda tech that isn't affected by the EMP. Analog tech usually is less effected by EMP's & radiation which is why spaceships use them. This has a retro future look so maybe its meant to be analog & also maybe the computer was off when the bomb fell during the night which would lead to the least effects. It might also just be shielded well in the part of the house its in. Looks like the only reason the people died was due to the windows & the central room doesn't have that instead having thick metal doors & thick walls that might just protect it from Gamma rays as concrete & lead stop them pretty well.
I think it is assumed what bomb was "neutron bomb" which was rumored to kill living beings without damaging structures and technique. This urban semi-legend was widely spreaded during soviet times. I remember it.
You can absolutely make a nuclear bomb which kills with radiation to a wider radius than the explosion. Usually the neutrons are absorbed by the outer case but this does not have to be so. Neutron bombs were real but have never been used.
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools, singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white, Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone. -Sara Teasdale
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.-Great God! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
In the original Bradbury story, there's no robot trying to kill a bird -- rather, the house is destroyed by the combination of a malfunctioning automatic stove and a malfunctioning fire-suppression system.
@@ashebryant4616 the cleaning mice toss the dog into the incinerator during the day. The fire starts when the wind smashes a dead tree branch through the kitchen window and shatters a bottle of cleaning solvent all over the stove, which was still hot from supper
holy shit what a great adaption. when the beds were pulled up and the ashes fell into the shoes was amazing. The art is just creepy enough. JFC i love this.
I don't like it. It's just needlessly creepy. The animators made it dark and unsettling but didn't include any real message to it. This video is just horror, the original is a real story
The original leaving the war revalation at the end and having that dog was great, yeah. And needlessly creepy is ok as long as it's good. Besides, people were horrified they'd be killed in nuclear war at the time.
Sputnik Uzbekistan "It will be a gentle rain" HD Anyone put on RUclips this version. I can’t have my channel for music videos and not horror. uz.sputniknews.ru/video/20180923/9509057/Budet-laskovyy-dozhd-mrachnyy-multfilm-s-glubokim-smyslom.html Download video using YooDownload
At the end of the cartoon, after the robot blows itself up, you can see the rubble of the house; Looks like it was made of concrete, with walls at least 2 & 1/2 feet thick. I'm no expert, but maybe that has something to do with it...
@Mr Cabot Yes "hoomans amz bad, gais". You are so deep. I haven't seen such depth since the last time i looked at my palm. Funny that, you think "humans don't deserve this once beautiful Earth", yet, you still continue to leave your undeserving imprint on it. And, while we are on the subject, who died and made you the one who decides who has the right to exist and who does not? Whom did you inherit the title of the world's Fuhrer from?
@@badatsmalltalk1220 If we talk about science fiction, I would call the cartoon "The Pass" (Перевал), produced by the Soviet studio Soyuzmultfilm in 1988. ruclips.net/video/CSPbnvjQ4Ww/видео.html
Jane Geary it was both, the look on the robots eyes when he crashed into the wall, looked sad, finally accepting no one was there, eventually ending its cycle of denial, or the robot just knew no one was there and tried to kill the intruder by, well commiting robo suicide.
In the original story, the pet dog, which is sick from radiation and covered in sores, crawls its way back inside the house drawn by the preparation of food. The dog barks at the bedroom doors for his owners, but to no avail. The dog then stumbles to the kitchen and begs to the robot for food, but is ignored. Then, the dog goes crazy, foaming at the mouth and bites its own tail. It falls over, dead, while pancakes are served at the table. The story says the house dings for 2:00. At 2:15, the dogs body is gone.
This was awesome. I'm a huge Ray Bradbury fan, and it surprised me to find this. They did an amazing job not only adapting the short story, but finding a sense of style and atmosphere that fit it perfectly. It retains all the poignancy of the original story, and actually adding a little more thanks to the use of Expressionist art and filmmaking techniques. I only wish I could see it in better quality...
@@modelcitizen72 In the book it probably was supposed to be cheerful while the animation is clearly going for a creepy horror vibe because everyone has died. The voice is to give you those something isn’t right feeling
@@SamuelBlack84 in this cartoon I cannot find anti-American prapoganda. And yes. Prapoganda in USSR was not against of american people. In soviet films or cartoons doesn't exist a charachter as "The Evil American". "Evil captitalist"- yes, "Evil military guy"- yes. But not the "Evil American". Soviet prapoganda never said smth about "bad nations" because communism is an international ideology. But bad nations was existed in american prapoganda movies. Japaneese? He is a little, gross, and pathetic. Russian? He is evil barbarian who want destroy your house and rape your wife. So think about that, comrade, huh. P. S. My English is not good but I hope you understand my message.
This is probably the scariest version of the "There will come soft rains" animations. But why is every single version on youtube of this so horribly corrupted? Is a higher-quality version available anywhere?
The idea of a nuclear holocaust is pretty scary.If you where outside at ground zero your skin would burn off and it would feel like the sun had just consumed you.
Every difference I found between this animation and the original: In the story, the families bodies were not vaporized in their bed, rather they were vaporized by a bomb in their yard, leaving an imprint of themselves on the wall of the house outside In the original it’s August 4th 2026, rather than December 31st In the original story there was a dog, presumed to be the families dog, that was extremely injured, and found it’s way back inside the house by the smell of food, and after being ignored by the robots the dog foamed at the mouth, bit itself and perished The house had no hazmat suits, it seemed as though the bomb was a complete and utter surprise in the original whereas this one seems like the world was already a nuclear waste land There is no bird in the original story, and no robots ever try to intentionally harm a creature In the original, a dead tree branch is knocked into the kitchen, knocking cleaning fluid on the heated up stove, causing a fire that made the house slowly wither away and eventually crumble in on itself, rather than the robot getting seriously damaged and destroying itself In the original, the robot is the one reading the poem, presumably as it did when the family was still alive, and it’s said that the only part of the house that remained functioning during the fire was the robot reading the poem In the original the story ends with the badly damaged robot repeating “It’s August 5th, 2026” over and over again until it either stops working or gets destroyed by some other disaster
Man, it still so soul crushingly sad when the bird hitting fake window scene plays and i think it will eventually die from the continuous impact to its head.
This will always be relevant. Inventing atomic weapons is the same as opening a pandora's box that will never be able to be closed. And the saddest thing is that there are no fewer wars on the planet. They may not be as massive as world wars, but hundreds of thousands of people also die in modern wars.
>people thinking the robot just gave up on life and suicided >not noticing the smashed eyelenses >not seeing how it prodded around like a blind animal and striked when it heard the bird occams razor has its days.
Very different from the story, not just in the details, but most critically in the tone. This makes it seem their lives were pretty grim even before the bombs went off, so there's not really a contrast between the happy-go-lucky life embodied by the automated systems of the house and the horrid reality of the post-nuclear blast world. Despite this difference, it's really well done and looks great, until the robot friend starts punching holes in the place. Especially the way it suddenly ends with an explosion like that, it just feels like the production was cut short
I agree, just read the original recently and it gave the depiction that this was your average suburban family that fell victim to a sudden nuclear death, with the imprints on the house walls all that This gives off the impression it was a family trying to survive in an already nuclear wasteland and one day it got to them and ultimately killed them, with the hazmat suits and the fact their bodies are now in the house instead of ashes out in the yard
Huh... that's odd. In the version I read, the robot spilled solvent on the stove, and it set the house on fire. This version where it goes kill-mode on a seagull before destroying itself is MUCH more interesting....
I agree, this version has a much more dark, hopeless tone, which I find much more fitting since the story takes place in the radioactive ruins of the city.
In this animation (for whoever is confused) the parents and children were vaporized by an atomic bomb, and the robot’s sensors did not detect that they were dead
I remember we read the story this is based off of in like 8th grade. Afterward, the teacher asked us what we thought it was about. No one who answered understood it. Either that or they didn't really read it (it was a silent reading session). They all thought it was dumb and overly pretentious. Meanwhile, I was on the verge of crying.
@@jusstLeo Oh, no; don't get me wrong, I love the story. I just found it really sad and depressing, and was confused as to why no one else in my class seemed to understand it.
@@SamuelBlack84 I've never heard of Threads before and I just looked it up. It kind of reminds me of of When the Wind Blows, which is another extremely cruel, heartwrenching, and hope-destroying film about the effects of a nuclear war.
In the original short story by Ray Bradbury it did. Of course when a Soviet-era animation studio adapted the short story they had to make it grim and foreboding to project their fatalistic sense of hopelessness on the West to distract the Soviet people from realizing that Western countries were in the midst of an economic boom and financial prosperity while the Soviet Union was only 7 years away from its dissolution
Most people commenting seem to be judging this compared to Bradbury's original story. I believe we can't compare two different forms of art and that certain adaptations are required. Having said that, this is my take on the story. The nuclear war happened on Sunday, so the robot didn't have much to do, remained shut for most of the time and didn't see it. It's the first day it will try to waken the people there, as usual, but they've been cooked into ashes by radiation. The toys have magically remained, though. We know the nuclear war was not long ago because the watches haven't run out of batteries and the eggs are still fresh (not to mention that in order to have fresh eggs they must be bought almost every three days). After it has sent people out to work or school, a bird intrudes through a broken window and is mistaken for a burglar. The robot is programmed to kill burglars because that's capitalism: it's alright to take lives to protect property. Trying to kill the bird the robot accidentally smashes itself against a wall and damages its eyes. Unable to see clearly, it mistakes the house's nuclear reactor lights (which are flashing due to some kind of overcharge or because the radiation detector is malfunctioning) for an enemy as well (when the bird sings). So the robot accidentally rams into the reactor, causing a nuclear explosion that destroys the house, which remained after the apocalyptic bombing. However, part of the backup system still works, keeping the gramophone and the window simulation working. The bird mistakes the simulated window as a way back to normal world and keeps smashing itself against it. This story deviates from Bradbury's original in many ways, but some of its changes improve the setting. The final scene with the bird would have made Bradbury proud, imo.
This fucking guy though. It's alright to take lives to protect property? How about it's alright to take as many lives as necessary to reach an ideological singularity as dictated by a small elite, including questioning the morality of reducing literal billions into ashes due to no human nature fitting into that singularity if not lobotomized of free will. Oh wait, that's communism. I think I'll stick with the one that ended slavery, that has comparably the richest lower classes in history and that protects ideas and art's right to be shaped and shared freely.
@@DxBALLxD I don't think you get the point of the comment. He isn't advocating for violence to protect property. He's channeling the more bleaker sides of a future capitalist world where the apocalypse is nigh. You can clearly see the hazard suits and preparations all over the house. Clearly the robot would be programmed to attack home invaders in such dark times. Not to mention, this was made in the 80's by a different country than the one the cartoon takes place in while also trying to portray the future.
@@hoffer_moment It's a twisted perspective of a economy-fueled world on the brink of total annihilation. It's rather realistic, in my honest opinion. Fallout does has depiction as well, and I'm sure that's what this cartoon was trying to portray.
@@colbyboucher6391 You conveyed what I was trying to say in a much better manner. Glad to hear I'm not the only one who understood the situation a bit more than surface value.
I think many people are missing the real point of this. In the original story life essentially goes on after humanity is wiped out, it's a story of how humanity can cease to exist but the world still turns. This is a showcase of how that's not the case, how nuclear war ruins the earth, destroying everything for everyone. There are no happy endings, because the fate of the earth is directly tied to the fate of humanity.
Only the world we know will disappear in light and fire). Cockroaches and some other life forms will outlive us and create a new world in a couple hundred million years). We are not the center of the earth! Elderly, senile leaders are leading us into the crucible of atomic war, and we are glad! Just "Don't Look Up", just "Don't Look Up" and everything will be fine! No! The story is coming to an end. The next one will start in millions of years...
so haunting and beautiful thank you for uploading this i thought it was a fever dream but remembered it by the very rare frank sinatra song that is featured
i came here as i'm studying this story for my literature exam. I wanted to see if their are any movies on this for a clearer image and found this. Even reading the story haunts me to my core but WATCHING it makes it worse. I can now clearly see the disturbing scenes of the story.
My guess is that the movie follow Bradbury's general message : that humanity has separated themselves from nature and live in a deeply unnatural, artificial setting. You can see how everything in the house is literally monotone : the walls are gray, doors, the furniture is gray, the beds are gray. The only touch of colors are the children's toys (and the fact that one is still crawling endless on a wall still reinforce the idea that it is, too, mindlessly artificial) and the grand mother's "place" which is coloured because they are items from the past, including the coloured landscape of the artificial windows. The robot personnify that house, and by extention, this artificial world : he is gray too, and has this unsettling voice - made even more unsettling by the fact that the robot sings (to the children to wake up - at least I'm pretty sure it's singing) he inquires about Mrs McClellan's well-being. Yet we feel as it human because of those traits, and, as his eyes are broken, the organic-looking electronics spilling from his eyes; as many commnts shows, people feel concerned about this robot (which isn't even named, as he insist to say twice). The robot attacking the bird and destroying every part of the house is also part of the message : this humanity has rejected nature, but humans ARE part of nature, so in the end, the robot, that artificial life form, doesn't care about the humans - he's not programmed to recognize humans; he's programmed to do actions that humans must conform to in order for the robot to behave correctly (for example, humans are supposed to stand up when they hear the national anthem... but instead of letting them do, the seats force them to get up.). This of course follow the general lines of Bradbury's sotry and the poem that inspired it - the humans in the house are gone, but the robot don't see it and keep behaving as normal.
I love this story. I've read it in school,and I'm happy to see they made a cartoon of it. This should really be a wake up call to people. Not that it will be though.
I had vague memories of seeing this but it was so dark and bizarre I wasn’t sure if it was real or just my imagination. Im glad to see this this is real.
The metaphor of this story is so fitting. A house (country) that has been optimized to serve everyone who lives in it, destroys itself to "keep itself safe" from a dove, a symbol of peace. Perfect description of the War on Terror.
looks like in this shorty action takes place right next morning after the nuclear disaster. So egg may be preserved from yesterday's evening (Sorry for my bad english)
As with the other guy said, this must take place right after the disaster since the bodies in the beds aren’t already ash piled on the floor, unless the robot kept putting the dead irradiated bodies back into the beds each night until they finally deteriorated.
@@MisterJohnDoe I agree the people just died and it’s the next morning. No one knew they died. No one knew the day would still come. This is all that remains, ashes of yesterday
In the original story, the only remains of the family is imprints on the side of the house that suggested they were playing ball outside. The imprints were caused by the nuclear bombs, of course.
is it going anywhere?
@@Galova what
@@pingus2099 lmao, responding to a comment made 6 years ago
@@Armenbrine Me, too.
That makes a hell of a lot more sense then the body ashes in the beds.
It is heartening to know that, in the midst of Cold War tension and propaganda, Soviet/Russian artists did have appreciation for one of America's greatest writers. Ray Bradbury truly has a universal appeal.
Despite depicting America in a nuclear winter
Why aren't all the circuits in the house, electricals, lamps, Toasters etc all fried due to the emp?
@@Defender78 possibly its a kinda tech that isn't affected by the EMP. Analog tech usually is less effected by EMP's & radiation which is why spaceships use them. This has a retro future look so maybe its meant to be analog & also maybe the computer was off when the bomb fell during the night which would lead to the least effects. It might also just be shielded well in the part of the house its in. Looks like the only reason the people died was due to the windows & the central room doesn't have that instead having thick metal doors & thick walls that might just protect it from Gamma rays as concrete & lead stop them pretty well.
There's always been something creepy about cutout animation. That robot also has the scariest voice I've ever heard.
Welcome to russia
Robot: (retracts spikes) wanna run that by me again ?
The voice? I thought the way it looked was quite unnerving, and that biological looking stuff in the eye things at the end didn’t really help.
To me, Its because cutout animation looks somewhat like what my dreams
ightmares look like.
Because it's dammaged by blast.
Holy shit. The scene where the birds are trying to desperatly break through the projected fake window is actually really moving.
she want back to past..
I think it is assumed what bomb was "neutron bomb" which was rumored to kill living beings without damaging structures and technique. This urban semi-legend was widely spreaded during soviet times. I remember it.
You can absolutely make a
nuclear bomb which kills with radiation to a wider radius than the explosion. Usually the neutrons are absorbed by the outer case but this does not have to be so.
Neutron bombs were real but have never been used.
If these mythical neutron bombs didn't destroy structures how come the entire city is a massive heap of rubble?
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools, singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
-Sara Teasdale
Depressing...
Wow.
@@makaylarae735 not
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.-Great God! I'd rather be
A pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
@@awnaur0no919 thank you, I have never read this poem before
When its 2027, I'm going to play this video at my new years party.
if we are will be still alive/
гостей напугаешь
I’m going to have to hold you to it, if I’m still around of course lol
iF
The way things are going with Russia this animation might be our future
In the original Bradbury story, there's no robot trying to kill a bird -- rather, the house is destroyed by the combination of a malfunctioning automatic stove and a malfunctioning fire-suppression system.
the stove doesnt mal function. Cleaning soulution spills on it and catches fire
ThrobertMcGee yeah we read this is school and watched this
I dont remember what happens all i know is that the house started catching on fire after trying to get rid of the dead dog lol
@@ashebryant4616 the cleaning mice toss the dog into the incinerator during the day. The fire starts when the wind smashes a dead tree branch through the kitchen window and shatters a bottle of cleaning solvent all over the stove, which was still hot from supper
I was hoping to see that animated. The bird I guess wand traded for the dog so it wouldn’t be as depressing
holy shit what a great adaption. when the beds were pulled up and the ashes fell into the shoes was amazing. The art is just creepy enough. JFC i love this.
I don't like it. It's just needlessly creepy. The animators made it dark and unsettling but didn't include any real message to it. This video is just horror, the original is a real story
The original leaving the war revalation at the end and having that dog was great, yeah. And needlessly creepy is ok as long as it's good. Besides, people were horrified they'd be killed in nuclear war at the time.
Nathan Murphy I don't think it is good. Horror isn't the point
The point of this video isn't 'horror for no reason'. It's a story told through symbolism that happens to be horror
Sputnik Uzbekistan "It will be a gentle rain" HD
Anyone put on RUclips this version.
I can’t have my channel for music videos and not horror.
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My English teacher in junior high showed this to my whole class. It fucked me up. It still fucks me up.
mine too i come back from time to time
Funny, I showed this to MY english teacher, we had just finished reading it and she had never seen it
At the end of the cartoon, after the robot blows itself up, you can see the rubble of the house; Looks like it was made of concrete, with walls at least 2 & 1/2 feet thick. I'm no expert, but maybe that has something to do with it...
my god... when the bird tried to get through the window it broke my heart....
ikr
Mr Cabot shut up boomer
Watergoblin 17 you sound more boomer than them lol
@Mr Cabot Yes "hoomans amz bad, gais". You are so deep. I haven't seen such depth since the last time i looked at my palm. Funny that, you think "humans don't deserve this once beautiful Earth", yet, you still continue to leave your undeserving imprint on it.
And, while we are on the subject, who died and made you the one who decides who has the right to exist and who does not? Whom did you inherit the title of the world's Fuhrer from?
@Mr Cabot Dear lord... i can smell the fedora through the screen.
Eerie.
Soviet animation and cinema i general is fascinating.
@airlockengage yes, because it is much easier to sell something uplifting. And in USSR you have no need to sell.
@airlockengage Would love to find similar early cartoons. Please let me know if you know titles, sources, anything. :)
@@badatsmalltalk1220 If we talk about science fiction, I would call the cartoon "The Pass" (Перевал), produced by the Soviet studio Soyuzmultfilm in 1988. ruclips.net/video/CSPbnvjQ4Ww/видео.html
Hufnágel Gábor watch soviet cartoon “ Потец “
@@TheMrFrankov Because in the USSR, you don't sell Items. The Item sells You.
If Fallout took itself seriously. Christ, there is a house inspired by this in fallout 3.
+Joh Lin Look up top ten creepiest places in fallout 3. It's somewhere on there
It is on Fallout 4, truste me I'm from the future!
You mean like Fallout 1 and NV (at least for the most part with NV)?
Here.
ruclips.net/video/zMzkZTzD4hg/видео.html
There are like better fallouts now
This isn't supposed to be creepy, it's supposed to be sad.
Especially the last part with the bird, made me cry.
Jane Geary it was both, the look on the robots eyes when he crashed into the wall, looked sad, finally accepting no one was there, eventually ending its cycle of denial, or the robot just knew no one was there and tried to kill the intruder by, well commiting robo suicide.
*Insert "why not both" meme girl here*
Who in the world do you think you're talking to?
I was talking to "The Magic Sweettart Pills", but apparently, RUclips didn't want me addressing them. Logic.
Pussy
When the robot thought that it was praying with the granda was gut wrenching.
Jason Cordero nice profile picture.
Grandma
@@MisterJohnDoe Grandimah.
@@angieroxy7550 *GRAND DAD!?*
@@MisterJohnDoe GRAND DADDY !?
In the original story, the pet dog, which is sick from radiation and covered in sores, crawls its way back inside the house drawn by the preparation of food. The dog barks at the bedroom doors for his owners, but to no avail. The dog then stumbles to the kitchen and begs to the robot for food, but is ignored. Then, the dog goes crazy, foaming at the mouth and bites its own tail. It falls over, dead, while pancakes are served at the table. The story says the house dings for 2:00. At 2:15, the dogs body is gone.
yeah I'm super glad I didn't have to watch that actually
And the snow from nuclear winter. This is just amazing.
I keep coming back here because this version of the story just had that big of an impact on me
2026 you say? We’re only four years away from this tragedy.
2 now
This was awesome. I'm a huge Ray Bradbury fan, and it surprised me to find this. They did an amazing job not only adapting the short story, but finding a sense of style and atmosphere that fit it perfectly. It retains all the poignancy of the original story, and actually adding a little more thanks to the use of Expressionist art and filmmaking techniques. I only wish I could see it in better quality...
Enter "Будет ласковый дождь" in the search. And another one with translation "Здесь могут водиться тигры". "There Could Be Tigers Here" (1989)
ruclips.net/video/2552i2Z8sNM/видео.html
@@СергейАкопян-ч2л I've been trying to find a better quality version for years, thank you so much for linking!
@@woodenpints ruclips.net/video/-Thgc_d2o-0/видео.html&ab_channel=HDResurrection
The clock - December 31, 2026
well, its been nice knowing you guys
I remember in the book the house's robot sounding much more cheerful, not like the nightmare fuel in this animation.
The robot in this animation is trying to be cheerful, good morning dear children! I think the nuclear blasts etc. might have jarred it a bit.
@@modelcitizen72 In the book it probably was supposed to be cheerful while the animation is clearly going for a creepy horror vibe because everyone has died. The voice is to give you those something isn’t right feeling
@@whitedragoness23 I'm surprised the animators would consider it sad as it's filled with anti-American propaganda and it was made by the Soviet Union
@@SamuelBlack84 in this cartoon I cannot find anti-American prapoganda.
And yes. Prapoganda in USSR was not against of american people. In soviet films or cartoons doesn't exist a charachter as "The Evil American". "Evil captitalist"- yes, "Evil military guy"- yes. But not the "Evil American".
Soviet prapoganda never said smth about "bad nations" because communism is an international ideology.
But bad nations was existed in american prapoganda movies. Japaneese? He is a little, gross, and pathetic. Russian? He is evil barbarian who want destroy your house and rape your wife.
So think about that, comrade, huh.
P. S. My English is not good but I hope you understand my message.
Yeah, in the story you kinda feel bad for the house.
This is probably the scariest version of the "There will come soft rains" animations. But why is every single version on youtube of this so horribly corrupted? Is a higher-quality version available anywhere?
***** That kinda brings more to the eeriness of it all.
The idea of a nuclear holocaust is pretty scary.If you where outside at ground zero your skin would burn off and it would feel like the sun had just consumed you.
+The_Blazer its called 240p
+The_Blazer It never existed, I think. Used to watch this on tv in my childhood - always the same.
ruclips.net/video/tt-bRm7qiqk/видео.html
Every difference I found between this animation and the original:
In the story, the families bodies were not vaporized in their bed, rather they were vaporized by a bomb in their yard, leaving an imprint of themselves on the wall of the house outside
In the original it’s August 4th 2026, rather than December 31st
In the original story there was a dog, presumed to be the families dog, that was extremely injured, and found it’s way back inside the house by the smell of food, and after being ignored by the robots the dog foamed at the mouth, bit itself and perished
The house had no hazmat suits, it seemed as though the bomb was a complete and utter surprise in the original whereas this one seems like the world was already a nuclear waste land
There is no bird in the original story, and no robots ever try to intentionally harm a creature
In the original, a dead tree branch is knocked into the kitchen, knocking cleaning fluid on the heated up stove, causing a fire that made the house slowly wither away and eventually crumble in on itself, rather than the robot getting seriously damaged and destroying itself
In the original, the robot is the one reading the poem, presumably as it did when the family was still alive, and it’s said that the only part of the house that remained functioning during the fire was the robot reading the poem
In the original the story ends with the badly damaged robot repeating “It’s August 5th, 2026” over and over again until it either stops working or gets destroyed by some other disaster
"It's Sunny Outside."
*He Says as It's Snowing Outside*
2 years late, but the robot said that it *might* be sunny outside.
@@donb.7390 Joining the late party, the robot might just be singing a song , given the odd wording of the sentence and his tone.
@@LeSarthois the robot is reading a poem for kids. In Russian it says "Sun rays pour through the window", literally "The sun looks in the window".
@@kyrylosovailo1690 Thanks for confirming, even with that robotic voice, it felt like it was reciting rather than just speaking!
Don't you just hate when your roomba stabs your walls then nukes the house?
AdrenalineHigh
Yeah, it's happens befor
fucking roombas mate i swear to god
AdrenalineHigh lmfao
Notendo, I'm lmfao.
"Smart house" my ass.
The automated voice modular make it extremely creepy. Good job there
Man, it still so soul crushingly sad when the bird hitting fake window scene plays and i think it will eventually die from the continuous impact to its head.
i like the little dance the chairs did at new years
They're doing that so that the people who *would be* sitting in them stood up for the national anthem.
This is more horrific than the story I heard as a child...
The moment with the US anthem played by music box brought the chills down my spine.
man I've stumbled upon this video by chance once, and it took me forever trying to find it again
Aperture Science Laboratories had even worse results in Russia...
Note: despite the great initial success, vodka cooling system proved to be disastrous when exposed to ГЛаДОС' logical circuits.
Glados’s distant relative didn’t like birds anymore than she did.
@@MisterJohnDoeshe liked burbs at the end of co-op
The robot in this video was actually a version of glados sold by aperture science to be a vacumm cleaner
Watched today, 31st December 2021, and its poignancy still holds true.
This will always be relevant. Inventing atomic weapons is the same as opening a pandora's box that will never be able to be closed. And the saddest thing is that there are no fewer wars on the planet. They may not be as massive as world wars, but hundreds of thousands of people also die in modern wars.
my teacher showed me this in English class..
Same
same but she wouldn't show us the whole thing because of "religion" so I decided to watch it on my own... It's quite creepy lol
We read the story in the 5th grade. I found the movie clip years later~
Gutsy. If I did that I would definitely get a mixed reaction from colleagues, supervisor, etc.
babyxxan❤️ same
I saw this video 11 years ago and have been searching for it ever since. I was 9 then. Now I am 20. Just as sad and creepy as I remembered.
Я робот. Я робот.
3:45 The fact that this is 5 years away now is scary
Edit: I wrote this when it was 5 years away. Now the apocalypse is in 2 more years.
Our nuclear apocalypse might be much sooner
@@SamuelBlack84 2 years away now D:
we watched this in 7th or 8th grade and immediately after watching it the first time i had to watch it again. i love everything about it
Something about this left a very heavy feeling of anxiety and uncertainty in me. Almost like the looming feeling of doom.
My god that poor robot.
What was pouring out of its socets
Shaun Koogler I think it might have been the rubble from the wall it destroyed
Shaun Koogler I think it’s advanced tech from within the robot, possibly even some sort of biotechnology.
@Steven Criscione but how can brain matter be in that robot
@@shaunkoogler8827 Probably in the same way that it's producing fresh eggs and poultry on the regular.
If I lived with a giant creepy robot, I would never get any sleep.
Robot: (retracts long meatel spikes) you wanna say that again ?
At least it seems friendly, when it’s not trying to maim house intruders that is.
It would make you sleep
Rest in peace Ray bradbury. your legacy carries on.
It's been eleven years plus two days since the Prodigal Son has returned Home 🚀🔴
>people thinking the robot just gave up on life and suicided
>not noticing the smashed eyelenses
>not seeing how it prodded around like a blind animal and striked when it heard the bird
occams razor has its days.
But what was the smashed lenses formed like?
I was thinking the robot malfunctioned after hitting itself on the walls enough times.
@@slitor Tears.
@@slitor like eyes running out of the eye sockets. Like a broken egg. Tears? Perhaps, but honestly, the running out eyes terrified
I like this kind of stuff
reminds me of HR Giger
Very different from the story, not just in the details, but most critically in the tone. This makes it seem their lives were pretty grim even before the bombs went off, so there's not really a contrast between the happy-go-lucky life embodied by the automated systems of the house and the horrid reality of the post-nuclear blast world. Despite this difference, it's really well done and looks great, until the robot friend starts punching holes in the place. Especially the way it suddenly ends with an explosion like that, it just feels like the production was cut short
I agree, just read the original recently and it gave the depiction that this was your average suburban family that fell victim to a sudden nuclear death, with the imprints on the house walls all that
This gives off the impression it was a family trying to survive in an already nuclear wasteland and one day it got to them and ultimately killed them, with the hazmat suits and the fact their bodies are now in the house instead of ashes out in the yard
Considering this is a Soviet adaptation of the story, it makes sense that it casts the Americans in a somewhat unfavorable light.
God Vinny how do you find this stuff.
ikr
Where does he mention this?
@@MisterJohnDoe At the end of this stream ruclips.net/video/yuQI6-kp2gA/видео.html
I'm doing a school project on this adaption. How on earth did Vinny make his way here?
Vinny gets many many links to obscure and wierd videos. Some are really good like this animated adaptation.
Huh... that's odd. In the version I read, the robot spilled solvent on the stove, and it set the house on fire. This version where it goes kill-mode on a seagull before destroying itself is MUCH more interesting....
I agree, this version has a much more dark, hopeless tone, which I find much more fitting since the story takes place in the radioactive ruins of the city.
It's a Bible reference Noah's ark.
I think I prefer the original ending just everything falling to pieces. This one might have symbolic in it destroying itself like the people did
"Seagull" it's clearly a dove.
Bravo! If I could, I would put 150 likes. Thank you so much for the download.💐🙄🙏
Yeesh, The Music from 4:53 - 5:28 is just heartbreaking.
it sounds so sad but it is SO WELL composed
war... war never changes
Just the weapons only
The ending with the bird was heart breaking!
It wanted a warm tree to sit on 💔
Watching this at 1 AM was hell of a bad idea
Ikr 😱
In this animation (for whoever is confused) the parents and children were vaporized by an atomic bomb, and the robot’s sensors did not detect that they were dead
Sensors was damaged. Everything in robot was damaged.
Did not detect, or was he in denial?
@@Kintsugi23didn’t detect,in this,it also no detect humans,but detect intruders
this is so creepy, i love it
I remember we read the story this is based off of in like 8th grade.
Afterward, the teacher asked us what we thought it was about. No one who answered understood it. Either that or they didn't really read it (it was a silent reading session). They all thought it was dumb and overly pretentious.
Meanwhile, I was on the verge of crying.
I'm in 8th just studying and reading this for a test coming up, I might sound wrong for this but I actually liked the story
@@jusstLeo Oh, no; don't get me wrong, I love the story. I just found it really sad and depressing, and was confused as to why no one else in my class seemed to understand it.
Just like the film Threads also depicting a nuclear war. Such a horribly cruel film
@@SamuelBlack84 I've never heard of Threads before and I just looked it up. It kind of reminds me of of When the Wind Blows, which is another extremely cruel, heartwrenching, and hope-destroying film about the effects of a nuclear war.
@@That_One_Xatu Yep, fun for all the family...
Another gem on youtube.
That was FUCKING AMAZING!
Thank you for uploading that!
This gave me chills
So I had to write an english paper and this is what I find... Thanks English 101!
Id always thought that the robot would have a sweet songy voice but this voice sort of suits how lonely this house has become
There was a BBC radio production of this years ago where the house had a voice just like you just described
In the original short story by Ray Bradbury it did. Of course when a Soviet-era animation studio adapted the short story they had to make it grim and foreboding to project their fatalistic sense of hopelessness on the West to distract the Soviet people from realizing that Western countries were in the midst of an economic boom and financial prosperity while the Soviet Union was only 7 years away from its dissolution
I like how the body is turned to ash, but the watch is perfectly fine
Most people commenting seem to be judging this compared to Bradbury's original story. I believe we can't compare two different forms of art and that certain adaptations are required. Having said that, this is my take on the story.
The nuclear war happened on Sunday, so the robot didn't have much to do, remained shut for most of the time and didn't see it. It's the first day it will try to waken the people there, as usual, but they've been cooked into ashes by radiation. The toys have magically remained, though.
We know the nuclear war was not long ago because the watches haven't run out of batteries and the eggs are still fresh (not to mention that in order to have fresh eggs they must be bought almost every three days).
After it has sent people out to work or school, a bird intrudes through a broken window and is mistaken for a burglar. The robot is programmed to kill burglars because that's capitalism: it's alright to take lives to protect property.
Trying to kill the bird the robot accidentally smashes itself against a wall and damages its eyes. Unable to see clearly, it mistakes the house's nuclear reactor lights (which are flashing due to some kind of overcharge or because the radiation detector is malfunctioning) for an enemy as well (when the bird sings).
So the robot accidentally rams into the reactor, causing a nuclear explosion that destroys the house, which remained after the apocalyptic bombing. However, part of the backup system still works, keeping the gramophone and the window simulation working.
The bird mistakes the simulated window as a way back to normal world and keeps smashing itself against it.
This story deviates from Bradbury's original in many ways, but some of its changes improve the setting. The final scene with the bird would have made Bradbury proud, imo.
This fucking guy though. It's alright to take lives to protect property?
How about it's alright to take as many lives as necessary to reach an ideological singularity as dictated by a small elite, including questioning the morality of reducing literal billions into ashes due to no human nature fitting into that singularity if not lobotomized of free will.
Oh wait, that's communism.
I think I'll stick with the one that ended slavery, that has comparably the richest lower classes in history and that protects ideas and art's right to be shaped and shared freely.
@@DxBALLxD that was over a year ago, think he cares about this comment?
@@DxBALLxD I don't think you get the point of the comment. He isn't advocating for violence to protect property. He's channeling the more bleaker sides of a future capitalist world where the apocalypse is nigh. You can clearly see the hazard suits and preparations all over the house.
Clearly the robot would be programmed to attack home invaders in such dark times. Not to mention, this was made in the 80's by a different country than the one the cartoon takes place in while also trying to portray the future.
@@hoffer_moment It's a twisted perspective of a economy-fueled world on the brink of total annihilation. It's rather realistic, in my honest opinion. Fallout does has depiction as well, and I'm sure that's what this cartoon was trying to portray.
@@colbyboucher6391 You conveyed what I was trying to say in a much better manner. Glad to hear I'm not the only one who understood the situation a bit more than surface value.
This may be creepy to some, but I found it really, really tragic.
And I like it.
Only six years away.... I guess we'll have
to wait and see what the future entails
3 now
4:50 the music here is phenomenal
This only twelve years away!
*is
I read that the story was orginally set in 1985 but was changed in later versions.
8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3...
@@davvvvo Escape From New York is fun for joking if the council and mayor (Dinkins and Vallone!) hadn't decided to hire a whole lot more cops.
@TheRecklessOne 5 лет
Saving this to watch on mushrooms and piss myself
This is the saddest thing I've seen so far on RUclips. Sad indeed.
I think many people are missing the real point of this. In the original story life essentially goes on after humanity is wiped out, it's a story of how humanity can cease to exist but the world still turns. This is a showcase of how that's not the case, how nuclear war ruins the earth, destroying everything for everyone. There are no happy endings, because the fate of the earth is directly tied to the fate of humanity.
The world in this still rotates,but everything is gone
Only the world we know will disappear in light and fire). Cockroaches and some other life forms will outlive us and create a new world in a couple hundred million years). We are not the center of the earth! Elderly, senile leaders are leading us into the crucible of atomic war, and we are glad! Just "Don't Look Up", just "Don't Look Up" and everything will be fine! No! The story is coming to an end. The next one will start in millions of years...
I read this story in a high school English book and it's to this day one of the most haunting things I've ever read.
Thanks Vinny
its the best animation i ever saw in my life
Found the song before the poem: ruclips.net/video/mqpzCUulMwM/видео.html
The Moon Was Yellow (Geraldo and His Orchestra)
so haunting and beautiful thank you for uploading this i thought it was a fever dream but remembered it by the very rare frank sinatra song that is featured
Very beautiful
I feel sad for the robot for some reason :'(
Well don't; it tried to kill the bird and then would've murdered the family had they not already been reduced to ash
i came here as i'm studying this story for my literature exam. I wanted to see if their are any movies on this for a clearer image and found this. Even reading the story haunts me to my core but WATCHING it makes it worse. I can now clearly see the disturbing scenes of the story.
I would hate to have a system such as that one in my house
Reminds me of Fallout 1 without the humor and Atomic Age style.
Love such things since my childhood. Great cartoon, I've seen it in school.
That thing looks like War of the Worlds creature.
What's the in-universe reason for this robot to be so creepy?
*"GOOD MORNING, MRS. MCCLELLAN. WOULD YOU LIKE MORE SUGAR IN YOUR COFFEE?"*
It has a Russian voice
The way it looks? I don’t want that to be one of the first things I see when I wake up in the morning.
My guess is that the movie follow Bradbury's general message : that humanity has separated themselves from nature and live in a deeply unnatural, artificial setting.
You can see how everything in the house is literally monotone : the walls are gray, doors, the furniture is gray, the beds are gray. The only touch of colors are the children's toys (and the fact that one is still crawling endless on a wall still reinforce the idea that it is, too, mindlessly artificial) and the grand mother's "place" which is coloured because they are items from the past, including the coloured landscape of the artificial windows.
The robot personnify that house, and by extention, this artificial world : he is gray too, and has this unsettling voice - made even more unsettling by the fact that the robot sings (to the children to wake up - at least I'm pretty sure it's singing) he inquires about Mrs McClellan's well-being.
Yet we feel as it human because of those traits, and, as his eyes are broken, the organic-looking electronics spilling from his eyes; as many commnts shows, people feel concerned about this robot (which isn't even named, as he insist to say twice).
The robot attacking the bird and destroying every part of the house is also part of the message : this humanity has rejected nature, but humans ARE part of nature, so in the end, the robot, that artificial life form, doesn't care about the humans - he's not programmed to recognize humans; he's programmed to do actions that humans must conform to in order for the robot to behave correctly (for example, humans are supposed to stand up when they hear the national anthem... but instead of letting them do, the seats force them to get up.).
This of course follow the general lines of Bradbury's sotry and the poem that inspired it - the humans in the house are gone, but the robot don't see it and keep behaving as normal.
@@LeSarthois Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
@@dragonkeeper19600 To be fair, Their comment is great.
3:45
“it is 31st December. 2026”
Can’t wait for this in the next couple years
I love this story. I've read it in school,and I'm happy to see they made a cartoon of it. This should really be a wake up call to people. Not that it will be though.
I was just thinking today that I would like to show this cartoon to my sister. And then I realized that now it doesn't make sense
Damn! This film predicted our future....
Hopefully our houses will have an intelligent system running our lives and perhaps shielding us from the nuclear holocaust.
I've been looking for that for over 20 years...
You're welcome!
you can see the fallout looking throughout windows
Why did I cry?
@@TK-xc1tt And grandma having her poem read to her. It makes you want to run outside and hug the life around you.
I had vague memories of seeing this but it was so dark and bizarre I wasn’t sure if it was real or just my imagination. Im glad to see this this is real.
Awesome, I read the short story, and this animation is really good! I wish I could find it in higher resolution ∧.∧
was 1987, wont ever find a good resolution unless you magically find the full on original source, something only a few would even have at the time.
ruclips.net/video/2552i2Z8sNM/видео.html
The metaphor of this story is so fitting. A house (country) that has been optimized to serve everyone who lives in it, destroys itself to "keep itself safe" from a dove, a symbol of peace. Perfect description of the War on Terror.
the most amazing story i have ever read. the movie just made it clearer and much more tragic and sad :\
The ending made me cry.
Where does the robot get the fresh eggs though?!
looks like in this shorty action takes place right next morning after the nuclear disaster. So egg may be preserved from yesterday's evening (Sorry for my bad english)
As with the other guy said, this must take place right after the disaster since the bodies in the beds aren’t already ash piled on the floor, unless the robot kept putting the dead irradiated bodies back into the beds each night until they finally deteriorated.
@@MisterJohnDoe I agree the people just died and it’s the next morning. No one knew they died. No one knew the day would still come. This is all that remains, ashes of yesterday
In five more years, it will be that date
3 more years
2 more years.
I guess this is true post-apocalypse. Not bullshit about survivors' factions waging their petty wars with scrapped guns.
Tagabat yes it would
Oddly enough this reminds me of I have no mouth and I must scream.
The animation resembles Terry Gilliam's animations from Monty Python films.
loved the video! it's like my dreams