Bagpuss E010 - The Old Man s Beard
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00:00Une fois à l'époque, il n'y a pas longtemps, il y avait une petite fille qui s'appelait Emily.
00:25Et elle avait un magasin.
00:33Voilà.
00:36C'était plutôt un magasin inhabituel, parce qu'il ne vendait rien.
00:40Vous voyez, tout dans ce magasin était quelque chose que quelqu'un avait perdu.
00:45Et Emily l'avait trouvé et l'a emporté chez Bagpuss.
00:49Emily's cat Bagpuss.
00:52The most important.
00:55The most beautiful.
00:58The most magical.
01:02Saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world.
01:11Well now, one day Emily found a thing.
01:17And she brought it back to the shop and put it down in front of Bagpuss,
01:21who was in the shop window, fast asleep as usual.
01:24But then Emily said some magic words.
01:27Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss, old fat furry catpuss,
01:31wake up and look at this thing that I bring.
01:34Wake up, be bright, be golden and light.
01:37Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing.
01:47And Bagpuss was wide awake.
01:50And when Bagpuss wakes up, all his friends wake up too.
01:53The mice on the mouse organ woke up and stretched.
02:00Madeleine the ragdoll.
02:04Gabriel the toad.
02:09And last of all, Professor Yaffle,
02:11who is a very distinguished old woodpecker.
02:14He climbed down off his bookend and went to see what it was that Emily had brought.
02:34Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
02:37What a tangle of old rubbish.
02:40What a mix up of twigs and sprigs and twigs.
02:43What a mix up of twigs and sprigs and twigs.
02:46How on earth are we going to find out what it is?
02:48Let alone what's wrong with it.
02:50Wait, wait, wait.
02:54We will do it, we will undo it.
02:57We will unravel it, string by string.
03:00We will wrangle it, we will untangle it.
03:03We will make a tiny thing.
03:05Stop, stop, that's worse. That's a terrible tangle.
03:08Now everybody stand still and think carefully about what to do next.
03:12Well, I know what I am going to do next.
03:15I am going to climb out of this tangle.
03:18Now then, what have we here?
03:23There are different sorts of things here.
03:26Pieces of wood and lengths of woolly string
03:29and some twigs of, what do they call the stuff?
03:32Old man's beard, I think.
03:35Well, I think the twigs of old man's beard have nothing whatever to do with the other things.
03:40They just got tangled in by accident.
03:43Old man's beard, hmm.
03:46Tangled in by accident, yes.
03:50What do you think, Bagpuss?
03:52Oh, yes. Yes, yes, it was an accident.
03:55Yes, could have been dangerous, yes.
03:57They were lucky, really.
03:59What on earth are you talking about, Bagpuss?
04:02Oh, I was just thinking.
04:04I was thinking about the king of the carpet country.
04:07The king of the carpet country?
04:10Yes, old man, look forward, Bagpuss.
04:13Look forward, Bagpuss, please.
04:20It was a pleasant country, yes.
04:22Not very far from here.
04:24I wish I could remember its proper name.
04:26I call it the carpet country because that is what most of the people there used to do, make carpets.
04:31Now, unfortunately, it was a very poor country.
04:34Merchants would come from other, richer countries to buy carpets,
04:37but I'm afraid they didn't think much of the carpets and they wouldn't pay much money for them.
04:41Now, the king of that country was King Frederick the 29th.
04:45He was worried because the people were poor and the carpets didn't sell well.
04:48He built a factory and put in it big looms, which are machines for weaving carpets.
04:53Long live King Frederick, shouted the carpet makers.
04:57King Frederick smiled and raised his crown and wiggled his long, long silver-white beard.
05:02Then King Frederick went into the factory to look at one of the looms working.
05:06The threads were too fine for his poor old eyes to see properly.
05:10He leaned over for a closer look and then a dreadful thing happened.
05:15King Frederick's beard is caught in the loom!
05:19A young rug weaver jumped for the break and the machine slowly came to a halt.
05:25The whole accident had only taken a few seconds,
05:27but already most of the king's beard was woven into the carpet on the machine.
05:31It looked simply wonderful.
05:34King Frederick didn't think it looked wonderful because the other end of the beard was still on his chin,
05:38pulling his nose against the machine.
05:40And the young rug weaver stepped forward with his scissors.
05:42Shall I release your majesty?
05:44Please do, said King Frederick.
05:47Snip, snip, snip. King Frederick was free.
05:51Thank you, he said. You're a bright lad. Thank you for your help.
05:54But I really must go home now and start growing a new beard. Good afternoon.
05:58The king went home and the carpet makers took the carpet from the loom.
06:02It was a very beautiful carpet with a marvellous silky silvery sheen to it.
06:07Many rich merchants tried to buy the beautiful carpet,
06:10and the richest of all actually did buy it,
06:13and he paid a tremendous lot of money for it.
06:16And he said he would buy any more like that for the same price.
06:19Well of course they hadn't any more carpets like that,
06:22and it would take a long time for the king to grow a new one.
06:25And that day many old men with long white beards came to the carpet factory.
06:30Buy our beards, they said. Only ten pence an inch.
06:34Well then the carpet factory got busy.
06:36Beards were snipped off, washed white as snow and hung on the hedgerows to dry.
06:40And then they were woven into carpets.
06:43They are magnificent carpets, said the richest merchant of all,
06:46but not as magnificent as the first one.
06:49They lack the silvery sheen, the luminous lustrous gloss of a truly royal beard.
06:54The merchants refused to buy any of the new carpets.
06:58The carpet makers were very sad.
07:01The young rug weaver took the message to King Fred, and King Fred sighed sadly.
07:06Now me, if only I could grow a beard quickly,
07:09I would give half my kingdom and my daughter's hand in marriage
07:12to anybody who could tell me how to grow a beard quickly enough to make carpets of it.
07:17The king's daughter looked at the young rug weaver
07:20and decided that if she was to marry anybody, she would like to marry him.
07:23And the young rug weaver thought the same about her.
07:26So, hand in hand, they ran to see the princess's great aunt,
07:29who just happened to be a magician.
07:31Easy, she laughed. Just dance round the king and say this poem.
07:35Then, hand in hand, the young rug weaver and the princess ran back to the palace
07:39and danced round the king, chanting the poem.
07:41Beard, beard, grow I say. Grow by night and grow by day.
07:45Grow for many hundred feet through the door and down the street.
07:50With a creak and a rustle, the king's beard began to grow.
07:55It rippled steadily across the throne room, glinting with streaks of pure silver.
08:00Through the door, along the great hall and out into the street it slid.
08:03Three times round the palace it wound itself
08:06and stopped at last by a sentry box where it tickled the sentry.
08:10Ooh, ooh, that tickles.
08:12Snip, snip, snip.
08:15King Fred was free again.
08:17The carpet makers hoisted the beard onto their shoulders
08:20and carried it off in a splendid procession to the factory.
08:23There it was woven into enough carpets to make the country rich again.
08:27The young rug maker married the princess and everybody was happy,
08:31except perhaps the other old men.
08:33They all wanted to have their beards made into carpets.
08:36They would cut them off and wash them and hang them in the hedgerows to dry,
08:39but nobody would buy them to make carpets, so they left them there.
08:43You can still see them sometimes in the hedgerows, white and fluffy,
08:46people call it Old Man's Beard.
08:50No, no, no, that is completely incorrect.
08:53No, Old Man's Beard is just the nickname of a climbing plant.
08:57Clematis vitalia is its proper name,
09:00but you can call it Wild Vine or Virgin's Bower or Willy Wind or Traveller's Joy.
09:05It's all the same plant.
09:07Well, it's only a story.
09:09And a very good story it was too.
09:11Look what it's done for the bits and pieces.
09:13What is it? Is it a making of loose end?
09:15Yes, I think that must be a loom.
09:18Yes, a loom for weaving.
09:20That's the same sort of machine that the King's Beard was woven on.
09:24How does it work?
09:26I'm not sure.
09:27There's a rope and a weft and a shuttle in the middle and a...
09:31I don't know exactly. Madeleine, do you know about weaving?
09:34Weaving? Um, I only know a song about weaving.
09:37So do I. And the mice do too.
09:39Come on, mice.
09:41Heave! Heave! Heave! Heave!
09:45The Marvellous Mechanical Mice Organ!
10:11Swing the reed, the weft is laid.
10:17I can wind the swine bobbin.
10:20I can warp a beam of thread.
10:23I can weave a sheet of linen.
10:26Fit to grace a royal bed.
10:29Lift the heel and fly the shuttle.
10:32Swing the reed, the weft is laid.
10:37Hear the din of the loom and shuttle.
10:41Weaving is a noisy trade.
10:44See how even, soft and gentle
10:47rides the clock when it is made.
10:50Rides the clock when it is made.
10:56I know. I know about weaving.
10:59I understand weaving.
11:01Do you, Charlie Mouse? Well, you tell me.
11:04I'll show you. Look, I am the shuttle.
11:08I go up and down through these strings like this.
11:12Up and down.
11:14I see. Yes. Then I pull the threads across
11:17and it makes woven cloth.
11:34...
11:52Stop! Oh! Stop! Tired out!
11:56Yes, poor Charlie Mouse. Stop and have a rest now.
11:59Have a rest on the marvellous mouse's bed you have made.
12:02Of course, that's what it is.
12:04Charlie Mouse has made a mouse's bed.
12:08The mice pulled the loom to the front of the window
12:11so that if anybody who had lost a tiny loom for making mouse beds
12:14should happen to come past,
12:16they would see it there and come in to collect it.
12:19And so their work was done.
12:23Oh!
12:27Bagpuss gave a big yawn and settled down to sleep.
12:31And of course when Bagpuss goes to sleep,
12:34all his friends go to sleep too.
12:37The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.
12:40Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.
12:43And Professor Yaffle was a carved wooden bookend
12:46in the shape of a woodpecker.
12:48Even Bagpuss himself once he was asleep
12:50was just an old, saggy, cloth cat.
12:53Baggy and a bit loose at the seams.
12:56But Emily loved him.