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Banya (Bath) 1962
I discovered a raw torrent for a Soviet stop motion film from 1962. It's directed by Anatoliy Karanovich and Sergei Yutkevich. It's the sort of enveloping satire you've come to expect from the USSR,...
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Cartoon Faces
I'm going to describe a couple of cartoon faces for human and anthropomorphic characters.Black Dot FaceCharacter has black dot pupirises. These change into other graphic shapes to represent shifted...
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Two Unsubtitled Hungarian Films on Youtube
Habfurdo(Foam Bath) and Dalias Idok(Heroic Times) are now on YouTube, though unfortunately without subtitles. This should delight Hungarian speakers and for non-speakers, it will wetten your...
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Evolution of Soviet Sports Cartoons
Russian sports cartoons seem to be intermittent for a while. The first, A Calm Forest Meadow, is in a very Disney-like mold, like a Silly Symphony in its forest setting and initially meandering pace...
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Of Stars and Men on YouTube
Here is my personal favorite of the Hubley films. It's the most ethereal and explores the relationship of human beings to the universe. It's an educational film, but don't let that stop you from...
View ArticleHavoc in Heaven and 1001 Nights Available on Youtube
Havoc in Heavenhttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZs0gQed9tMSuClzPPM7AxR5eOs0kZ5ks1001 Nightshttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZs0gQed9tMQBW1sZ4zC4iecr9K0HtElXI found two classic animated...
View ArticleSon of the White Mare Posted on YouTube
Here's Marcell Jankovic's film Son of the White Mare. I hope you enjoy it.If you want to buy it, copy and paste this url to...
View ArticleJerry Beck Resigns from Cartoon Brew
I'm quite shocked that Jerry Beck has resigned from Cartoon Brew. I wonder what will happen to the readers who preferred his articles to Amid's. Will there be somebody new who will take his place? We...
View ArticleThe Scarlet Flower on YouTube
This movie isn't quite up to my low feature lenth standard of 45 minutes but it's worthy of inclusion here for those who can stand the awkward rotoscoped characters.
View ArticleTwo Films from Valentina and Zinaida Brumberg
Here are the films The Lost Letter, uploaded by Niffiwan, and The Night before Christmas, uploaded by Eus347. I've only watched the first, but when I'm in the right mood for a rotoscoped film I'll make...
View ArticleThe Soviet and Japanese versions of Twelve Months
Here are two versions of the same tale, Twelve Months. The first is the Soviet Russian version directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano. The second is the Japanese-Soviet Russian version directed by Kimio Yabuki...
View ArticleA Diversion into Webcomics
There hasn't been many new good animated films that are very obscure. I'm suspecting that the distributor GKids is going to really put a damper on this blog's future because it means that many good...
View ArticleColorful-Keiichi Hara
Colorful is a film, based off of the novel of the same name by Eto Mori, about a troubled soul reincarnated from some sort of afterworld into the body of a boy in his third year of Japanese middle...
View ArticleFilms I've Seen Since Last Post
I've seen quite a few animated films since my last post. I'll talk briefly about each.First up is Kuiba, a Chinese anime styled animated film which is about a demon that is reborn every 333 years. The...
View ArticleAbstract Animation Ought to be Mainstream
I think that somebody ought to create an abstract animated feature film and give it a mainstream international theatrical release. Think of the potential. It could be divided into different segments...
View ArticleA Cut Scene from Heavy Metal
I thought I'd share this deleted scene from Heavy Metal, Neverwhere Land, which I found on the web.
View ArticleBeast of Burden is Being Made
Kirby Atkins' animated feature is being produced. I found out about this from a 2015 Variety article. It's a coproduction between Huhu Studios and China Film Animation. I've been excited about this...
View ArticleTwo Animated Films Hidden in Cartoon Brew's Artist of the Day
The title says it all, really. There's been very few hidden gems revealed on Cartoon Brew for a while, at least as far as the main articles go. There, however have been two of interest recently in the...
View ArticleDick Deadeye, Or Duty Done on YouTube
I've gotten out of the habit of searching for good animated films on the web. This feature, based on Gilbert and Sullivan operas and the drawings of Ronald Searle is a film that many have been dying to...
View ArticleMidori Ko and Ere Erera Izik Subua Aruaren
I received two artistic animated features for my birthday and I'd like to talk about them both. Spoilers are ahead. Midori Ko is an experimental animated film, done in colored pencil, that is about a...
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