Kolobok - Russian Fairy Tale

A beautiful musical animation film based on the Russian folk tale of the same name. The fairy tale is prevalent in Slavic regions in a number of variations and has similarity with The Gingerbread Man in English folk tale. It is the story of a Russian round bread kid, Kolobok who was baked by an old granny and suddenly became alive when he was place in the window sill for cooling. He then escaped from the home of the granny and grandpa and met various animals on his way like the rabbit, wolf, and bear. Each of them intended to eat him, but Kolobok cunningly managed to escape from everyone except the treacherous Fox.

The movie is directed by Marina Karpova and Edward Nazarov.

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The English version of the animated movie:



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More Info:
wikipedia
Russian fairy tale The Bin (Колобок) in English

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The Great Pussini / Kitty Kat Kennels

This is the first episode from the 2nd series of French-American animated tele-series - Heathcliff (Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats). The series is based on the Heathcliff comic strip by George Gately. The Catillacs Cats characters were created by Jean Chalopin and Bruno Bianchi. This episode was shown in 1984.

More Info:
heathcliffcomics
wikipedia

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Holiday Mail

This is one of the episodes from the Russian animation series - Kikoriki (Smeshariki in Russian). This episode was shown in 2008. The main character of this episode is Rosa, the pig. It is about a holiday gift she received and it's consequences.

Uploaded by: Çizgi Film Dünyası

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Fears

A graduation film by Vancouver Film School (2015). The animation is directed and animated by Nata Metlukh. Fear is generally thought to have an adverse effect in our life and we try to get rid of it. But this movie throws light on the other side of fear.

Awards & Selections:

1. Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canada / 2015) -
   Winner
2. Spark Animation Festival (Canada / 2015) -
   Winner
3. Hamburg Animation Award (Germany / 2015) -
   2nd
4. Chilemonos (Chile / 2016) -
   3rd
5. KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival (The Netherlands / 2015)
6. Sommets du cinéma d’animation (Canada / 2015)
7. Fantoche (Switzerland / 2015)
8. Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation (USA / 2015)
9. Cinanima (Portugal / 2015)
10. Primanima (Hungary / 2015)
11. Living Arts Animation Festival (USA / 2015)
12. Vienna Short Film Project (Austria / 2015)
13. Insomniafest (Russia / 2015)
14. Anibar (Kosovo / 2015)
15. World Festival of Animated Film in Varna (Bulgaria / 2015)
16. Pluk de Nacht (The Netherlands / 2015)
17. Anima Brussels Animation Film Festival (Belgium / 2016)
18. Durango Independent Film Festival (USA / 2016)
19. Animac (Catalonia / 2016)
20. Trickfilm Festival of Animated Film (Germany / 2016)
21. Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival (Italy / 2016)
22. Tel Aviv Animation Festival (Israel / 2016)
23. Holland Animation Film Festival (The Netherlands / 2016)
24. Pictoplasma Berlin Festival (Germany / 2016)
25. Ceiling Festival (Russia / 2016)
26. AninetFest (Czech Republic / 2016)
27. Augenblicke Shortfilms (Germany / 2016)
28. Cineclube Animassa (Brazil / 2016)
29. SantaCurtas Festival (Portugal / 2016)
30. Hiroshima Educational Film Market (Japan / 2016)
31. Modern Art Museum Centre Pompidou in Paris (France / 2016)
32. Bit Bang Fest International Festival (Argentina / 2016)
33. Animasivo (Mexico / 2016)

More Info:
Making-of
Nata Metlukh

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The Walk

A short film about the pleasure of a walk amidst the beauty of mother nature. The movie is inspired by the beautiful natural beauty of the "Lake District" of England. The animation is created by Art&Graft. Music and Sound Design by Brains & Hunch.

Awards & Selections:

1. Bass Awards 2015 -
   Best Experimental - Bronze
2. VOTD -
   Winner
3. Encounters Festival -
   Official Selection 2015

More Info: Art&Graft

Uploaded By: Art&Graft

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It Was Salty They Were Sweet - Whole Foods

A nice illustrative 2D TV commercial for Whole Foods Market, grocery retailer from Olson in Minneapolis. The animation was made by Brand New School, production company and design studio with offices in New York and Los Angeles.

The ad shows how an imperfect recipe can give way to a voluptuous dinner with several side dishes.

Uploaded by: Brand New School

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Look Listen Feel

An animated music video for Maple Mountain Sunburst's 'LookListenFeel' featuring the voice of Isabella Rossellini.

Artwork by Ben the Illustrator.

Motion by Broken Antler.

Uploaded by: Cartoon Flavoure

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Easter Card

Happy Easter to all. Here's a cute Easter card by Kilogramme, an animation company based in Manchester, England. It depicts few little chicks dancing with colorful Easter eggs. The synchronization of the dancing chicks with the sweet tune is really very nice. The subtle use of pastel shades also goes well with the tune. Enjoy the sweet show and have a happy Easter.

Uploaded by: Kilogramme

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Happy Harmonies - "To Spring" (1936)

A sweet old animation from the Happy Harmonies Series showing how spring arrives in the earth. This 1936 cartoon in Technicolor tells us how the gnomes living deep inside the earth churns out vivid colors at the onset of Spring and pump them to the world above, thus giving a new life to the dull frozen earth. But they had to face an obstacle while trying to do this. Check out the video to see how they overcome all hindrances and cover the earth with green leaves and colorful blossoms.

Uploaded by: overture83

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The New Year Birdies

A cute animated New Year wish for you all.....

This short animation shows few birdies singing & dancing & wishing Happy New Year to you.

Hope you all will enjoy it.....


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Race Riot (1929)

This is the first 'Oswald the Lucky Rabbit' cartoon released on Sept 2, 1929. It is also the first theatrical cartoon released by the Walter Lantz studio. Walter Lantz Studio was an American animation studio (1929 to 1972) and was the principal supplier of animation for the Universal Studios, now part of the media conglomerate NBC.

The story is about a race in which Oswald takes part with his horse and the funny things happening before and during the race. It has been directed by Walter Lantz. The story and animation was done by Walter Lantz, Bill Nolan and Tom Palmer while the musical score was done by Bert Fiske. It was the first score by Bert Fiske.

More Info:

uncyclopedia.wikia.com
lantz.goldenagecartoons.com

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How Peter Pyatochkin Elephants Believed

This is a Ukrainian 2D animation directed by A. Viken in 2005. It is about the mischiefs of a little boy Peter Pyatochkin, a fictional character created by writer and scriptwriter Natalie Guzeeva.

Pyatochkin was taken to kindergarten by his parents after lots of trouble. There he played a lot, was very noisy and the teacher could not cope with it. After dinner the children went to sleep. But Peter could not sleep. Seeing this the teacher advised him to close his eyes and count elephants. Peter did so and soon fell asleep and he dreamed that he was a teacher in a kindergarten for the elephants. There one of the baby elephants behaved like Peter himself in reality. (courtesy boyarka.com)

More Info:
http://files.boyarka.com

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Pauvre Pierrot (1892)

One of the first animated films ever made. This French animation was created by Émile Reynaud and was broadcasted in October 28, 1892 (3 years before the invention of cinema) at Musée Grévin in Paris, France, using his Théâtre Optique system - similar in principle to a modern film projector. It was shown along with his 2 other films, 'Le Clown et ses chiens' and 'Un bon bock'. The entire program was then called Luminous Pantomimes.

The film consists of 500 individually painted images. Reynaud himself was the script writer and projectionist. Although it was made earlier than the invention of cinema but it was colored and more than that - not a silent film. The musical score was done by Gaston Paulin.

The story in brief:

One night, Arlequin come to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away. (courtesy - IMDb)


More info about this film and Émile Reynaud:
wikipedia
www.lips.org
IMDb

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Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)

The earliest animated film ever made is a silent cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton in the year 1906. J. Stuart Blackton, one of the co-founders of the Vitagraph Company was a newspaper cartoonist. It was the first animated work on standard picture film, using the single frame method and was projected at 20 frames per second. It is the earliest surviving American animated film.

The film is about a cartoonist's line drawings of two faces on a blackboard and they apparently came to life. The two faces smiled and winked and the cigar-smoking man blew smoke in the lady's face. Also, a circus clown led a small dog to jump through a hoop. It actually uses cutout animation made to look like chalk outlines.

More info about this film and J. Stuart Blackton:
Wikipedia
www.pictureshowman.com

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Fantasmagorie (1908)

The first fully animated film in history, made on modern picture film projector by Émile Cohl (Emile Eugene Jean Louis Courtet, 1857-1938), a French caricaturist of the largely-forgotten Incoherent Movement, cartoonist and animator. He is called 'The Father of the Animated Cartoon' and 'The Oldest Parisian'.

This silent animation is not a narrative but a collage of some actions performed by the main character. But the way one action leads to the other, the speedy merging of different scenes glues the eyes to the screen.

Cohl made it from February to May or June 1908.He placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and then traced the next drawing-with variations-on top of it until he had some 700 drawings to make this film. This created a consistent movement and continuity between the drawings. The characters look like chalkboard caricatures which was popular in those days. But Cohl filmed black lines on paper and then printing in negative, making his animations appear like chalk drawings.

More info about this film and Cohl:
www.weirdwildrealm.com
filmyear.typepad.com
IMDb
wikipedia

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Princes et Princesses Trailer

Princes et Princesses is a 2000 French silhouette animation feature film written and directed by Michel Ocelot and released in 2000. It is a compilation movie of the 1989 television series Ciné si.

More info: Wikipedia

Uploaded by: Les Armateurs

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A Run of Bad Luck

This is one of the episodes from a Russian animation series - Kikoriki (Smeshariki in Russian). It is a funny animation with cute animal and bird characters and a nice message. This episode shows how Big Beak is having bad luck throughout the day.

Uploaded by: Çizgi Film Dünyası

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Vuk

Vuk, a mischievous and curious little fox, is the main character of the Hungarian film released in 1981. The original story of Vuk the fox has been written by a Hungarian author, István Fekete in the 1950's. The animation is directed by Attila Dargay. This is the Russian version of the film.

More Info: IMDb

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Cheenti Cheenti Bang Bang (Laal Kalo) Trailer

Cheenti Cheenti Bang Bang is the Hindi version of the first Bengali animation film Lal Kalo. It is based on Girindrashekhar Basu's novel 'Lal Kalo' written in 1930. Basu was India's first psychologist. The story is about the battle between red ants and black ants. Apparently there are some shades from Mahabharata and Illiad as the war happens due to a female character. This is the theatrical trailer of 'Cheenti Cheenti Bang Bang'.

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The Danish Poet

The Danish Poet is a Norwegian literary adaptation.

Can we trace the chain of events that leads to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do little things matter?

The narrator of The Danish Poet considers these questions as we follow Kasper, a poet whose creative well has run dry, on a holiday to Norway to meet the famous writer, Sigrid Undset. As Kasper's quest for inspiration unfolds, it appears that a spell of bad weather, an angry dog, slippery barn planks, a careless postman, hungry goats and other seemingly unrelated factors might play important roles in the big scheme of things after all.

A film by Torill Kove
Narrated by Liv Ullmann

Awards:

1. OSCAR® (2007) - Best Animated Short Film
2. Genie Award - Best Animated Short Film

Techniques, interview with Torill Kove & Wallpapers : http://films.onf.ca/thedanishpoet/index.php?lg=en

More info: Wikipedia

Uploaded by: NFB

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