All language subtitles for The.Moon.And.The.Sledgehammer.1971.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.x264.KG

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

I never go where the cock never crows,

and I wouldn't advise any of you
to go where the cock don't crow.

Walk up, ladies and gentlemen, and
see the live lion stuffed with straw,

two spots on his belly and one on his—

Get away on you!

Stand back, you boys!

The elephant's about to make water.

All the felt hats I ever felt,
I never felt a felt hat

that felt like this hat-felt felt.

You won't get that to go, Pete.

- Huh?
- That won't go.

- What won't?
- You've got um...

- air in the pipeline on that.
- Yeah, expect there is.

And another thing,
that's a dirty diesel.

- Is this rack properly working?
- Mm.

Get on the self-commencer.

Let me swing and you turn the thing on.

Alright?

Let me turn the handle.

You work this.

Right, now, bring her out.

I have a daughter, name of Kathleen.

She helps a good bit in the house.

She's very interested in gardening.

If you got a flower that she hasn't got,
she'll go mad to get that.

Give you any money for it to get it.

Yeah, yeah.

I have some boys,
one's Peter and one's Jim.

But Peter, he likes driving
an old steam engine.

He gets as black just as though he'd been
sweeping half a dozen chimneys in a day,

and so he comes home.

But never mind, I suppose
he's interested in his job.

But you don't earn a lot of money
with 'em, I tell you.

Jim, he's more interested
in mechanical work.

Matter of fact,
he's building a small steam engine,

and hundreds of people will see
his engine that he's built.

He's got the cylinder to cast out

and the main bearings
and the eccentrics and that to make.

I superintend him
and help him a bit on the job

where he gets a bit,

you know, in a fog.

Well, yes, Nancy.

Nancy's alright.

She likes a motor car
and go to the seafront and

you know, enjoy herself and that.

If she does a job of work,
she'll work for about an hour or so,

and then, you know,
she's had enough, you know.

A ladylike star.

Yeah.

Whatever are you doing?

Some conjuring work?

Oh, I messed it up.

Ladies and gentlemen,
I'm about to make a boat,

and I've made a good start,
and I shall finish it.

But I want to get this boat done
by early spring of the year,

which I shall have to work real hard on
to get it done.

I've got thousands of rivets to put in,
for to start off with,

and thousands of holes to drill,
flanging plates and that.

It'll be a steel boat,
a seaworthy boat,

it'll weigh about nine to ten tons.

It'll be two speed forward,

and that's why it's built
semi-submarine fashion,

so that I could really go
under the water if I wanted to.

When I go to sea, if you're with me,

we may see a sea scopium.

A sea scopium is...

It looks like an old ship's
sailing cloth

in the water, a big, large one.

They're black, a sea scopium is.

He's got an head like a frog,

but it's all gold, goldy colour, round,

and his eye sticks out
a bit bulge-fashion.

This one that I saw,
the sun was shining bright,

and it was shining down
through the water,

and I should guess somewhere about,

it was about seven to eight feet
under the water.

I was going to try to winch this up

to see if it was any good,

but going to the other end to pull back,

I saw a big pair of eyes
and a big mouth and that.

Well, it frightened me for a bit.

I thought, well,
I'd better not disturb that lot.

No, he'd drag you under the water.

Yeah.

Hey, that's great, Kath.

- Pretty, isn't it?
- Cor.

- Ooh, I've cut a rose.
- It's marvellous.

Cor, just the job, eh?

Lovely. What a lovely smell.

Cor, reminds me of that old song, Kath.

- It does?
- Mmm.

Well, sing it then.

You are my garden of roses,

Kissed by the morning dew.

Each little flower that opens,

Fortunes I find in you.

- Think we've done that, Kath.
- Hmm.

It's food before anything.

You can dust a hatch,
you can dig up a garden,

you can make a smart path,

or you can cut a lawn,

but after you've cut that lawn,
you've got to have some food.

Therefore, food is first.

It's food first, work after.

They've got all this press-button
machinery nowadays,

and there's not half the work done.

Not half of the work.

You couldn't beat the old time
when the horses and that was in,

there was better work done.

If they go on the same
as they are going on,

they will come to starvation.

There's so many people,

and there's no one to work the land
and who'll feed the population,

that's all there is to it.

They'll finish up eating green grass.

You look at a cabbage now.

They tip a bit of chemical round her
and you can even hear the cabbages going

"Squaaaaark! Squark!", growing.

Well, when you're boiling
the cabbage up,

you smell the steam,
well what can you smell?

Well, like a lot of pig swill.

Not fit to eat.

In other words
they're too tired to smell.

Yeah, too tired to break wind in.

Definite.

- You what?
- Definite that is.

Definite.

Because there's no oil wells in England.

There's coal mines.

That England ought not to—
ought to be steam, run by steam.

It's all wrong to have motor power

'cause the oil's and that's gotta come
across the sea and that.

Too costly.

The price of petrol and that,
steam will beat it.

Steam will come back in,

'cause it'll get so we shan't able
to get no oil and petrol later on.

That's when steam will come in then.

I've got him then, see here?

I don't very often miss.

Got a good one.

Just the job.

There we are, Kath.
Just on the doorstep.

- I'll go out there to go and get it.
- Mind the catch, remember.

What are you doing, Nance?

I'm just stitching these wings round.

Looks quite good, that.

Very nice.

- Cor, Kath, let's have a cuppa tea.
- Yeah, I'm just going to make one.

I'll take the teapot.

Okay?

Okay.

Have you got a match?

Oh, yes. Yes.

Now, I'm just going out in the garden.

You must have bad eyesight,
don't you think?

Like lighting up a haystack.

This engine here weighs 16 tons.

16 tons.

That's the weight of this engine,
and this engine's 10 horsepower.

A horsepower in steam

will take four ton, anywhere you like,
up hill or down.

If it's one horsepower, it'll take what,
four ton anywhere.

Them engines are 15 horsepower.

They're not 16s, they're 15.

Stamped on the lubricator,
15 horsepower them engines are.

They're only a 10.

- A sixt—
- 16 is at the front wheel—

A 16's got higher front wheels
than them.

Another 6 or 7 inches higher.

And it's not an old type engine,
because it's got the belt flywheel,

it's a two-speed run-type.

Whole thing wants packing up
and chucking in the iron heap.

And the other one along with it.

'Cause them two old engines'll
break that Fowler.

'Cause I couldn't work
and keep that old thing going.

That's too big of a lot for me.

Now, this engine here,
I could work with him,

and I don't wanna go along with it,

'cause they used to be just like a lot
of old gyppos years ago with these,

and they had to get up in the night,

they had to sleep in the daytime
and work nights with these,

'cause it took 'em all day, it was so
hard to work for the drivers and that,

to get the whole thing
ready for work,

that they had to lay in bed and that
in the daytime and work nights.

They're the dirtiest old thing
that ever old Fowlers made, these,

and there's so many of them.

I don't want nothing to do
with that old lot, I've tried.

And as for to go to a rally and that,

well, I don't want
nothing to do with that.

If old Fowlers couldn't make
a better lot than that, well,

they must have been ignorant years ago
to work with a lot like that.

That old lot there
is made altogether wrong.

That winding drum and that ought
to have been on that back axle and that,

and that engine only ought
to have been about this long.

Them front wheels and that
ought to have been back here.

That whole lot's made anyhow,
what chucked up together.

Old Fowlers ain't got no sense at all.

That winding drum ought to have been
up the back here, on here.

'Cause I'm right, what I'm saying,
and we've got all used bearings,

you get hold of that wheel rim
and straighten them front wheels out,

you can't do that.

Who's gonna steer an engine like that?
'Cause I ain't.

I ain't gonna work like that.
I got better sense than that.

- I have.
- What about—

That fella what's bought that lot,
he's ignorant.

And I'm right,
he's ignorant as a pig!

'Cause who's gonna buy half a ton
of coal today to steam that up?

I ain't, I'd sooner buy some bread
and that to eat and sit in the shade.

I'm gonna watch 'em today get
this going, I ain't gonna work on it,

'cause I got better sense.

I have, and that's telling you straight,
I got better sense.

I ain't gonna buy half a ton of coal
for that lot,

'cause that ain't worth it.

That's right, that ain't worth it.

It isn't worth it.

That isn't worth it.

Engine's alright.

Oh, yes, the engine's alright.

He's got a pad on. I tell you,
you won't make much of him.

He's a very bad steersman is Peter.

He wouldn't pass, not if he went
through a test, I don't think.

No, he's not good enough.

Little more steam, Pete.

Well, the world's all to pieces,
isn't it?

They're like a lot of rats and mice
in England,

they don't know what they're gonna do.

He's right, England's all to pieces.

- Who did it?
- Eh?

Who did it?

The government's done that.

Messed the people up.

They did, messed the people up.

They kept putting things up,

and tantalizing the people,

and taxing 'em right up,
and they just don't care.

You look at these factories, these
blokes in these factories won't work.

I've seen stuff from the factories
ain't put together proper and that.

And I've seen new tractors come out
and that

with no thrust race in
to push the clutch out,

and then they've come and asked me
what's wrong with it and that.

I said, well,
they've left some parts out and that.

And I've found new tractors
with spanners and that

chucked in the bottom of the gearboxes

and all sorts chucked in there
to smash 'em up.

How about that, then?

Oh, yeah, and I know where there's a
David Brown now where it's been built up

and they've left the tools
in the bottom, under the flywheel.

What are you gonna do about it,
then, Pete?

Well, I told the bloke to take 'em out,
I said, 'cause it'll spoil the tractor.

What are you gonna do about the world,
which is so— What are you gonna do

about the world?
- Well I can't do nothing about it,

I never done it.

No, I never done it.

No, never done it.

Another one, a well-known engine,
a William Allchin,

which was a very popular engine
used for— on the threshing drum

in the country,
it sounded almost like this.

When's tea ready?

Oh, it won't be long.

Cor, let's have a good one shall we?

Yes.

Let's have a real good one.

My hair's getting long.

Yeah, do you think I could have
a bit of your baccy?

- Where'd you get that?
- Yeah I got some bac. - Oh right, thanks.

Well, why is it you couldn't
run this place then, Jim?

I dunno, the uh...

And those old chickens keep coming in.

Drive that one out, Kath.

Go out! Go on.

Don't want you any more,
roam round the wood.

Well, I don't know.

I wouldn't have a lion,
not at no price.

No, because a lion has

got a wild nature to it,
and you can't get that out of him,

it's like an old— like a fox.

You get a young cub,
you can bring him up quiet,

but he's not the same.

He's still got that sly nature to him.

And you'd feed a fox, and

you'd feed a fox, you know,

as you would a dog,

but sometimes that fox would turn
sort of vicious like,

and he'd, he would bite you
more or less, you know?

Well, that's how a lion'd turn,
just the same.

What about kangaroos?

Oh, yes, a kangaroo,

well, of course, that's a nice,
nice animal.

If you've got a young one and you
bring him up as you want him to.

I like a kangaroo
because they can stand up,

and they can walk about and that,

and they can pick the grass
off with their hands, and

they'll take a bit of bread and
bread and butter and that and eat it.

A kangaroo can pick up a cup
off the table and drink out of it

and things like that.

They're more intelligent if you like,
to adapt 'em and learn 'em.

Of course, they knows nothing,

but a monkey I could never
make nothing of.

If you start to do anything
with a monkey,

if you start to take, um,

a magneto to pieces
or anything like that,

there's— that monkey, he'll want
some of your parts what you got,

and he'll sneak 'em when your
back's turned or snatch 'em from you.

A monkey's no good,
not to do anything.

You couldn't rely on him,
he'd put you miles behind.

Oh, it won't come over.

It might snap halfway.

Looking through the telescope,

the moon looks like
a two-foot six circle.

You have on this side, you know,
like a crust form,

which is hanging away from the moon
on the edge.

And inside of the moon's surface,
you get like, volcanoes,

and these volcanoes are more like
the ones that you would see

perhaps in China or various places
of the world.

They have the same kind of ridge
all the way round from the molten stuff,

which is hosed up out of the ground,

and sort of pitched on the side
and formed the ridge round.

The moon is about a quarter
of the size of the Earth,

according to what I've seen
through a telescope,

what I made to that purpose.

It was made from just ordinary,
usual bits of stuff

that you would find in a scrapyard
or anywhere like that,

such as a sheet of material or

a bit of brass, you know, that's
laying around, and put it into good use.

It was just a simple made one
with the lens put in their proper order,

and if you get some stars
in the telescope lens,

you will also get the star
on one side of the lens,

and you'll see it
very quickly pass across,

which looks like a job
of electric arc welding

going across the lens of your telescope.

Well, to reach the moon, hah!

If they make a ladder long enough,

a bloke will have to carry his bed
and his breakfast and all that,

all his cooking utensils up with him,

so he can stop halfway or a quarter,
eighth the way up the ladder

and have a night's doss and that,

ready for six o'clock in the morning
to start going on up again.

But when he gets up there about,
we'd say,

15 mile high, he'll begin to hold
a bit tight in case he falls off,

or fall asleep getting up there,
or get tired out.

You know, when I was a boy, they used
to try to get up to the moon, you know?

Can you— You couldn't remember that.

Well now, I can.
I'll tell you what they done.

They tried to get—
where the moon come over,

at a certain time,

as it passed up,

they tried to get very big balloons
and load it very heavy,

and they was to keep on loading
as they—

until they got right up there,
oh, tremendous height,

till there was no air.
It wouldn't go no higher.

Waste of time, waste of money.

It's a good job
the moon's well up there, too.

I got room enough
to swing a sledgehammer and that

underneath him without hitting of him.

He's well out of my way.

But if they had their way,
they'd get the moon down, you know,

and they'd be wheeling him— trying to
wheel him up the road on two wheels.

And you gotta pay so much to see him.

If they manage to knock the moon down,

it'll throw boiling lava
all over the land and that.

Well, it distinctly says that
in the Book of Words, doesn't it?

If you open it out,
it'll tell you about it.

Man shall destroy himself.

Well they're working on that now.

Man will invent things
to destroy himself, and it's true.

I've made wireless sets and all that,

but you daren't get near 'em,
otherwise they'll kill you.

When I first found television out,
I was experimenting with sets,

and hitching all sorts of old gear
up to it and that,

and seeing the results of it.

That's how I found television out.

But I've made some sets,
you daren't go into the room,

not with it turned on,
it'll knock you down.

It was in men from the start
to make things and to do things,

although we have other living souls
on the Earth

that take a much lower position
in their ways of life,

but we are something above all.

And I think that that mind
being so great

didn't come from evolution,

because although people believe
that the world come from evolution,

I think this is a load of rot.

And I believe that in the early stage
of the world,

that it was really created,

and that's definitely about that,
and there's proof to show it.

Even science knows
what a blade of grass is made of,

and they know how it grows.

But if you told them
to create a blade of grass,

it would be impossible
for them to do it.

If you said to scientists,
even the cleverest today,

could you create a small world
floating in outer space

and make miniature rivers
and everything to actually flow?

And things to actually grow on it,
and they've got to do it with nothing.

Nothing, they haven't got
to have anything,

they've got to do it in the air,

and they haven't got to put
anything there to do anything,

and they've got to make this all up.

It would be impossible.

- Gosh, it's hot.
- Where are you going, Kath?

Driving away, and nobody knows
where I'm going.

No, I like to be on my own.
You know, I don't like a lot of people.

But would you prefer to be
out of the wood?

Really and truly?

Oh, yes.

And what would you really—
where would you really go?

Oh, live right out in the wilds,

miles from everywhere.

And away from, away from here?

Oh, yes, definitely.

I don't like it here.

Well he's not the same person
because the years have flown by,

and he's altered tremendously.

Well, he used to be a big, fine man,

and he's a little man now, isn't he?

Very tiny.

He gets very angry, you know,
if I'm away, and thinks.

When I'm in sight and I come back,

he says I've stolen something,

stolen the dishes out the house or—
to dishearten me, you know?

- Why does he say it?
- And I say, "Oh, I haven't."

And, you know, he said, "Oh, you have."

And I'd say, "Well, try to prove it."

He doesn't want to know.

Hey, don't get pulling the barrel
through the wood here.

I'm getting some water.

- Oh, no, that'll be—
- Alright.

Oh, no, that'll be quite alright.

No. No, that's alright.

Yes, I've got some boys,

one's no good much,
and the other one's okay.

Now, Jim, he knows the way
to drive an 'obnail in a pair of boots,

but the other one doesn't know so much.

And yet the other one
that doesn't know anything,

he thinks he knows it all.

But, I tell him
he's got a long way to go.

It's a long lane
that's never got a turning, really.

Oh, he is a nuisance at times,
he don't want you to do nothing.

He wants to, you know,
do everything his-self.

He don't like to see you have anything.

No.

Now I'm not like that. I like to see
anybody have anything.

Yeah.

I don't like people interfering.

No, 'cause I can really do a job,
I've been out today and done some jobs

where another—
done electric motor and that,

where another bloke's wired it up
dead short and all that,

I've done that
and got it running and that,

and they ain't said— they said, well,
that bloke knows what he's doing.

Jim'll help me, but Peter's no good.

He's always busy, he haven't got time.

No, he haven't got time,

and the one that haven't got time,
he haven't got nothing

because he haven't got time
to have anything.

'Cause he haven't got time, he haven't
got time to have anything.

No, I can't work with him.

- Why not?
- No, because, uh,

he wants things all his way,
all one-sided.

I have worked for him,
and I've worked hard,

and I haven't got nothing through it,

but I've learned a lot, though.

I've learnt a lot.

But what I know,
other people will never know,

'cause I shan't tell 'em.

Well, Peter's only interested in
an old steam engine,

a traction engine, yeah, that's all.

I believe he looks at them,

well, he takes them to be his god,
I think, I dunno.

Well, I really think that he—

I try my best to do different jobs,

and I think that he tries to pull me
down on different things that I do.

It disheartens me in lots of ways,
you know, and I get sort of stormy.

He always sort of, comes in,
and he knows best

in what you're doing, and yet
he will not help to improve himself.

She doesn't worry about him now,
does she?

He goes out, and he buys lots of food,
and she won't cook it for him.

He doesn't cook,
he just throws the food out.

Selfishness is a person
that only thinks of themselves.

He don't care for me,
so why should I care for him?

He wouldn't worry about me or trouble
about me if anything went wrong.

He wouldn't have no patience,
he'd sit back and sort of laugh.

I don't know, they're most funny.

I should buy another place down there
and get away from these up here,

'cause they're funny.

They're what I call half-bred lunatics.

I don't think nothing about him.

I don't wanna waste my time
looking after him,

because I could work for him,
I could wash him a shirt,

cook him a dinner, and make his bed,
and put him to bed,

and I wouldn't earn sixpence off of him,
and he wouldn't give me sixpence,

and he wouldn't buy me a package
of the cheapest,

the commonest sweets on the market,
that man.

He's not interested in me,
so I'm not interested in him.

And he'll tell you he's the boss.

Some very nice metal, Kath.

- Yes?
- Mmm.

Still a lot more dross to come.

I'd like you to keep back, Kath,
when I tip this in

- just a little bit.
- Okay.

Swing!