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Old and Obscure Animation Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 02:11:49 AM No. 137237

Thread to talk about:
>Foreign, experimental, handdrawn and stop-motion animation
>Nostalgic cartoons your parents showed you when you were a
kid
>Recommendations and hidden gems
>History of animation
et cetera

Let’s share!

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 02:14:30 AM No. 137239

made the thread bc the discussion everywhere seems to be centred around modern american animation (that, or anime), and i’d like to see some appreciation for more esoteric stuff. hope i’m not literally the only person on this site that‘s passionate about this subject kek. i’d be very curious to hear from non-english posters about stuff you watched!

to kick this off, this one has been my favourite piece of surrealist animation since i was like 5. had it on dvd.

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 02:14:39 AM No. 137240

MISTA ANDO I LOB U

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 02:17:16 AM No. 137241

gay icons

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 02:34:35 AM No. 137243

>>137241
this is so comfy

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 03:52:33 AM No. 137249

Jan Svankmajer had some interesting stop-motion animation films.

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 06:32:29 AM No. 137263

>>137240
oh a fellow woman of culture

STRIKE MR. ANDO STRIKE

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 06:39:57 AM No. 137266

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>>137263
samefag, an obscure animation I remember from my childhood is a russian animation about a poor girl and the twelve months of the year. I haven't seen it in a long time, but I remember loving the animation. It was dubbed in my language but idk about english. I've seen it's on youtube with subs though

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 09:28:00 AM No. 137282

Everybody loves the Clangers, even if they haven't seen it yet

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 09:31:34 AM No. 137283

Please enjoy this hand drawn (by one man!) feature film about pop music genres. Not sure if Bill Plympton counts as obscure though.

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 09:49:00 AM No. 137285

Great thread! Claymation is inherently creepy to me and adding Satan in to the equation makes this whole thing even creepier

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 10:34:11 AM No. 137287

I love this thread, I used to be obsessed with finding weird creepy animated short films

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 10:58:14 AM No. 137288

>>137282
I adore them. Even the remake was good because they stuck to stop motion. There’s just something so soulless about cgi remakes.

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 04:36:45 PM No. 137338

My god I'm so excited about this thread. To start, here is my favourite music clip. It was made by only one women with 3000 hand drawn sketches. The plot is really surprising and the art is gorgeous.

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 04:46:37 PM No. 137339

Samefag but anyone else is waiting for Norstein's new film ? It's been so long since he started this project but his paper cut animation is pure magic at this point. I can't even begin to imagine the amount of time and technic to create such movements

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 07:15:12 PM No. 137375

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Fantastic Planet is a lesser known animated movie that isn't mentioned much. French film in the 60's that ask a simple question: What if humans were treated as pets for an (equally or more) intelligent species? It does feature death and some torture elements but an interesting watch.
Also unique in that the movie was hand drawn on paper but used cutouts to animate it.
I think the full movie is still on Youtube.

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 08:54:53 PM No. 137394

haunting oil on glass animation

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 09:08:13 PM No. 137396

weird shit

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 09:11:19 PM No. 137398

not experimental or weird, but a charming little short film about a showa era photography studio

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 09:13:31 PM No. 137399

cute/sentimental short about a boy and a robot

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 09:14:40 PM No. 137400

>>137399
*girl. been a long time since i've watched this

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 09:29:00 PM No. 137401

>>137394
spooky shit from the same director

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 09:34:09 PM No. 137403

unsettling stop motion adaptation of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. you can probably find a better quality version of this elsewhere, just check it out when you have the chance.

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 09:45:42 PM No. 137406

one of my favorite short films of all time, La Maison En Petits Cubes. again, you can probably find better quality elsewhere, just wanted to draw attention to this.

also check out Kunio Kato's other works, they're all wonderful and incredibly unique.

Anonymous 04/14/21 (Wed) 11:39:02 PM No. 137426

One of my favorite pieces of animation. The art is so surreal and beautiful, the atmosphere feels like a dream.

>Tortov Roddle is a man of few words on a journey through a calm and obscure new land, interacting with its inhabitants along the way. As he rides on his long-legged pig through the desert from town to town, he observes the interesting and quirky customs of the locals and reminisces about his past.

Anonymous 04/15/21 (Thu) 01:30:23 AM No. 137439

Suur Tõll, an adaptation of an Estonian folk tale made in1980

Anonymous 04/15/21 (Thu) 01:35:11 AM No. 137441

Russian animation for the story There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

Anonymous 04/15/21 (Thu) 10:15:04 AM No. 137510

>>137441
anon I just saw this thread and wanted to post exactly this kek
it made me cry so much when i first saw it

Anonymous 04/16/21 (Fri) 05:51:06 PM No. 137726

here is a cool animation made of embroidery

>>137401
this was so good thank you anon!

Anonymous 04/16/21 (Fri) 06:43:56 PM No. 137738

I watched this music vid a lot in my childhood because of the animation. Its name is “Steklyannaya Garmonika”, made by Andrey Khrzhanovskiy.

Anonymous 04/17/21 (Sat) 09:48:19 AM No. 137872

I don't think they are considered obscure these days but I simply love the content they put out.

Anonymous 04/17/21 (Sat) 08:53:16 PM No. 137950

I’m sorry it’s in german but the story and animation are really beautiful

Anonymous 05/25/21 (Tue) 07:32:42 AM No. 144976

Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 07:44:44 PM No. 145376

im not sure if this counts for this thread, but 'the flying luna clipper' is a very cool film that was created with msx computers. i think its really unique and interesting
(reposted cause i messed up the link)

Anonymous 05/26/21 (Wed) 07:54:51 PM No. 145378

>>137282
I was legit terrified of the Clangers as a child, although I was scared of a lot of things

Anonymous 06/07/21 (Mon) 10:21:33 AM No. 147238

>>145376
you brought back a memory for me! if I'm not mistaken I'm pretty sure I was the person to add this to mubi.com's database kek

Anonymous 06/23/21 (Wed) 02:57:11 PM No. 149528

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feeling nostalgic, sharing some really wholesome childhood cartoon gifs

Anonymous 06/23/21 (Wed) 02:59:15 PM No. 149529

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>>149528

Anonymous 06/23/21 (Wed) 04:33:11 PM No. 149539

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>>149529
wow, those designs are great!

Anonymous 07/18/21 (Sun) 08:29:01 PM No. 152831

Anonymous 07/19/21 (Mon) 10:06:51 AM No. 152896

>>137338
The art is amazing! What a talented person

Anonymous 10/14/21 (Thu) 02:05:56 AM No. 164246

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This is a Disney PC game I had as a kid, Nightmare Ned. This art still scares me as an adult. Wtf.

Anonymous 10/14/21 (Thu) 02:08:23 AM No. 164249

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>>164246

Anonymous 10/14/21 (Thu) 04:07:33 AM No. 164261

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>>137239
til the animator is a huge creep who apparently groomed one of his students(?) and married her when she turned 18. this man is 62. the girl's an artist, probably a fan. dude has a lot of highly sus pictures of kids saved publicly on his vk profile (https://vk.com/vanechka_maximov) i shouldn't be surprised to be honest.

Anonymous 10/14/21 (Thu) 02:14:35 PM No. 164297

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American Pop is the only Ralph Bakshi film I've seen that doesn't disgust me in some way. I actually love it and have seen it multiple times. It's made with a rotoscoping technique, with a really vibrant color palette. The story is basically a series of vignettes following the story of a family of Jewish immigration in New York and the music that's evolved through those generations. The ending is a pretty hilarious rock n roll acid trip type montage and its iconic. If you haven't seen it, I super recommend.

Anonymous 10/21/21 (Thu) 07:40:15 AM No. 165669

nice

Anonymous 10/21/21 (Thu) 03:28:39 PM No. 165715

>>137237
What the fuck why have I only seen this thread now? (Btw love Jiri Trnka, his illustrations and puppet designs were gorgeous.) I linked an old Russian animated movie that is AMAZING looking, except for the terrifying robot Thunderzeka.

Anonymous 10/21/21 (Thu) 04:22:58 PM No. 165719

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>>165715
good taste. words cannot describe how much i love the character designs in this. the robots? the weird round guy? the adorable parrot? THAT COW? fantastic breathtaking never been done before. i used to have a crush on pic rel character please don’t judge.

kinda wish it was longer.

Anonymous 01/25/22 (Tue) 10:00:51 PM No. 181627

Krysař (1986)

Anonymous 01/25/22 (Tue) 10:32:50 PM No. 181632

It's not old but I think it fits the thread well. La Casa Lobo (The Wolf House) is very cool and effort stop motion film about a girl's escape from nazi cult in Chile, which happened irl. It took a million years to finish the film.

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 12:34:13 AM No. 181643

I always thought this retelling of romeo and juliet was really cute and interesting. I'm surprised to find out now that the studio is sanrio films, who also made Chirin's Bell, another classical japanese animated film from that time period that I liked. Now I can sort of see the commonalities they share, it's neat. I wish the film studio still made serious kids films like this, instead of the moe stuff they make now.

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 01:02:29 AM No. 181652

I have no idea where my parents got it but we had this on VHS when I was a kid. I never watched it all the way to the end because the scene at the beginning with the seagulls made me too sad/scared. I used to have nightmares.

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 01:34:40 AM No. 181654

>>181652
Without knowing anything about this the style looks distinctly russian

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 02:13:41 AM No. 181657

>>181652
weird i had this on vhs but it's called 'Scamper the Penguin' instead.

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 03:16:28 AM No. 181665

>>181643
It's cute and oh my god, the soundtrack is so gorgeous!

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 03:20:04 AM No. 181667

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When I was a kid I watched a number of obscure cartoons probably all from Soviet Russia. The most known one being the bow wow cat one.
I really want to find the old raggedy Ann cartoon i watched as a kid. It was on one of the few blank tapes we had in my family and it was a really sweet cartoon.
It was about a little blind girl who raggedy ann teaches to "see" using her imagination. I really loved the more whimsically surreal animation.

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 03:27:05 AM No. 181668

>>181667
Holy shit this is a blast from the past, I vividly remember listening to audiotapes of this in our crappy apartment when we immigrated

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 03:31:37 AM No. 181670

>>181667
searched for "raggedy Ann blind cartoon" since it sounded really interesting and it's actually on youtube

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 03:36:30 AM No. 181673

>>181670
Holy shit thank you anon

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 03:55:07 AM No. 181679

I used to look up random foreign/old animations on Youtube. I remember this one (Russian) animation called the Dog Door about some stray dogs looking for a place to live. It ends kind of bittersweet though I suppose stuff like Disney makes you expect ending on a happier note.

Also (maybe not the right thread) but I remember seeing clips of a cartoon about a yellow looking bear/koala creature that was the last of his kind living in a forest of animals. I only remember it was not English it might've been European or Russian? I don't remember the name of it but it was animated cute

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 04:28:34 AM No. 181684

>>181679
Russian koala might be Cheburashka. Not a perfect match but it does look yellowish in earlier versions and it's also the only of its species in cartoons/books

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 05:17:10 AM No. 181686

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>>181679
jungledyret hugo?

Anonymous 01/26/22 (Wed) 06:02:18 AM No. 181688

>>181684
This isn't it, but is still very cute!

>>181686
Ah, this might be it! I have to find the video, if it's still on youtube, of him singing with a bunch of animals

Anonymous 01/27/22 (Thu) 09:58:48 PM No. 182005

Inspirace - 10 mins

Anonymous 01/27/22 (Thu) 10:02:21 PM No. 182006

Klub Odložených - 25 mins

Anonymous 01/27/22 (Thu) 10:09:47 PM No. 182007

>>137249
Blood Tea and Red String is one that looks like a lot of influence from Alice