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openEastern-European cartoon about a sucicidal man. Western Animation
In the tropes Bungled Suicide and Happily Failed Suicide, there's a mention on the Western Animation folders that there's an 80's Eastern-European short about "a despondent man trying to kill himself, but when he's faced by robbers, he gives away all of his posession, clothes included, and ends up happy and appreciating life after being spared". I can't find anything about this short on the web, and a twitter account stated that this short is probably non-existant. Anybody knows what the short is called?
openA real animated short or not? Western Animation
In the tropes Bungled Suicide and Happily Failed Suicide, there's a mention on the Western Animation folders that there's an 80's Eastern-European short about "a despondent man trying to kill himself, but when he's faced by robbers, he gives away all of his posession, clothes included, and ends up happy and appreciating life after being spared". I can't find anything about this short on the web, and a twitter account stated that this short is probably non-existant. Anybody knows what the short is called?
openWhere is this clip from? (SOLVED) Western Animation
So, a video I was watching used a clip that I would like to know the source of. The clip is CGI animation.
It starts with a possibly-teenage girl leaning around a doorway. She is Caucasian, and has brown hair pulled back in a braid, green eyes, and glasses. Her shirt is black with a red collar.
The camera then cuts to behind her, so we can see the room she's looking into. On the wooden floor is an assortment of toys: Some kind of red robot, a pink... thingy that looks like a collection of Easter eggs, a plush-looking toy of someone in a blue suit and mask, a kinda lizard-looking action figure, a "buff barbarian" action figure, and two different action figures of people in Powered Armor (One red, one green. The green one is bigger).
The girl is saying something, but the video didn't use the audio from the clip so I have no idea what she said.
Then the camera cuts to a close-up of the red Powered Armor action figure, showing that under its transparent green visor it has a nervous expression. Also, we see that the action figure isn't purely red: it also has golden and blue sections of its armor, and its joints are black. Then we cut back to the girl, who looks around for a second before ducking back behind the wall.
The context in the video was mentioning how the toys in Toy Story would "go inanimate" when humans around, but NONE of the characters in the clip are from Toy Story. (I suspect it might be from a short film.)
Edited by sRAMrelevratopenPossibly eastern european clay-animation short film about a machine running amok on a field Western Animation
I vividly watching this clay animated short film on swedish television as a child in the early 90's/late 80's, but I still haven't managed to find it anywhere since.
The story, as far as I can remember it, featured a farmer-looking elderly man with a hat and beard that helplessly watched a runaway machine (presumably some farming equipment?) plow through a field towards a girl/woman screaming for help as it moved closer to her.
I don't think it had any dialogue and I assume it was some sort of soviet/eastern european production, based on the look and feel it had, perhaps czech republic or russian, but I guess it could have been some other european country as well.
open'Mons genre cartoon/anime Western Animation
I'm not sure if it was a western cartoon or an eastern one, but I remember a Mons genre show airing on some channel. I remember it being The Hub (now Discovery Family). The main characters summoned monsters via summoning circles, at least at first. They also had an adult watching them summon monsters. Each monster had some kind of element, and they were given unique names by the summoner. I remember a girl named a purple monster Squeaky, and a boy named his monster something like Stinky, but I don't remember what it looked like. There was an episode where something was going on with a civilization of people who hated monsters of a particular element. When the girl summoned Squeaky, the people turned on her for having a monster of the element they hated.
openA princess adventure cartoon Western Animation
I'm looking for a cartoon from the 90s or the early 2000s, I watched it somewhere in 2004-2006, though that means nothing because I'm from Finland so it could've been years after the series premiered. I feel like it had a middle eastern or maybe Indian theme to it, with the main characters going on adventures that involved mythology. I feel like the age group for it was probably 7-12, it felt a lot like Jackie Chan Adventures or the 90s Zorro cartoon. The main character was a princess with brown or red hair, and I feel like she wore a blue dress. She had some kind of a bug friend, a tick or maybe a spider.
The one episode I remember had the bug turning in to a giant monster and a mysterious stranger saved the princess from it. Starstruck, the princess married the man and they left her home castle to live in his, where she finds out that the man is cursed to turn in to a beast during the full moon. He begs her not to tell anyone, explaining that if she does, he will turn in to a beast forever. She is scared though, and when her father comes to visit them, she immediately tells him about the curse. They hear a pained howl and when they look for him, he's disappeared in to the wilderness. Then the princess wakes up, and it was all a dream.
I've been trying to look for it for the past two days and I can't find it, I'm starting to think I just dreamed the whole thing, but I remember so clearly watching it on the Finnish channel 4, Nelonen, on Fridays, before 8am, in the winter during my last years of elementary school.
openSome local kid show Western Animation
This show had a guy with a big mustache and a blue painting coat on with a black french hat and black bow and used over sized brushes? I believe it was on local kids tv in eastern Kentucky was when the last time I watched it I do believe that it had a circus tent intro? And the guy kinda looked like the guy that was In Kidsong we love painting but that isn’t the show
openOlder claymation or puppet show. Western Animation
So for a long time I've been wrecking my brain trying to remember the name of an old show from my childhood. I believe it was eastern European in origin but can't be sure. It only ever showed two characters who were almost identical except for wearing different colour sweaters. Each episode was fairly short and centred around the characters encountering some minor problem and in their attempt to solve it would go about doing so in the worst way possible. It almost always ended with the two standing in the mess they made but with the initial problem solved and then they excitedly shook hands. The two characters had these oval heads with a round nose and very simple dot eyes as well as some kind of beanie hat.
open1980’s or 1990’s Easter Cartoon TV Special Western Animation
I saw it only once when I was around 8 or 9. I remember watching it at Easter time sometime between 1993 and 1996. It was an Easter cartoon special, not reoccurring TV show with an Easter themed episode. I don’t think it was a full-length movie, although it could have been. If it was a movie, it was never in theaters. All I can remember is there we’re talking farm or woodland animals. One of those animals was a rabbit, he seemed to be the central/most memorable animal character. I want to say it took place on or near a farm. There was a boy on the farm. He was the protagonist along with the talking animals. I don’t know if the boy and animals talked to each other, but the animals talked to one another. The antagonist was a machine or robotic type being I remember. It could have been a tractor or a piece of farm equipment. I remember there being s tractor on the farm somewhere. I remembered that the machine/robot somehow hurt the boy, or defeated him somehow. The boy was on the ground hurt, and I remembered how bad I felt and how much I hated that evil robot machine villain thing. The animals were devastated and were on the boy’s side when this happened. I don’t remember what happened at th end, or how everything turned out for the boy and the animals. I want to say that the animals somehow saved the boy from the machine villain but I can’t distinctly remember how that happened. I have always connected the memory of this animated TV special with Easter time, and Easter themed, though I have no memory of the show itself besides the taking rabbit to associate to Easter specifically. I’ve been struggling with this memory and wanting to know what it is I remembered after all these years. I know I remember the way it made me feel the most. Maybe that’s the reason I can’t let it go, and I need to know more. I’ve been struggling with this for 15+ years. Anything would help! Thank you!
open1980’s or Early 1990’s Easter Special Western Animation
I saw it only once when I was around 8 or 9. I remember watching it at Easter time sometime between 1993 and 1996. It was an Easter cartoon special, not reoccurring TV show with an Easter themed episode. I don’t think it was a full-length movie, although it could have been. If it was a movie, it was never in theaters. All I can remember is there were talking farm or woodland animals. One of those animals was a rabbit, he seemed to be the central/most memorable animal character. I want to say it took place on or near a farm. There was a boy on the farm. He was the protagonist along with the talking animals. I don’t know if the boy and animals talked to each other, but the animals talked to one another. The antagonist was a machine or robotic type being I remember. I remembered that the machine/robot somehow hurt the boy, or defeated him somehow. The boy was on the ground hurt, and I remembered how bad I felt and how much I hated that evil robot machine villain thing. The animals were devastated and were on the boy’s side when this happened. I don’t remember what happened at the end, or how everything turned out for the boy and the animals. I want to say that th animals somehow saved the boy from the machine villain but I can’t distinctly remember how that happened. I have always connected the memory of this animated TV special with Easter time, and Easter themed, though I have no memory of the show itself besides the taking rabbit to associate to Easter specifically. I’ve been struggling with this memory and wanting to know what it is I remembered after all these years. I know I remember the way it made me feel the most. Maybe that’s the reason I can’t let it go, and I need to know more. I’ve been struggling with this for 20+ years. Anything would help! Thank you!
Edited by Sugarcoated1102openSome sort of asian superhero show Western Animation
Don't think it was an anime but it definitely had a eastern setting. The main things I can remember about it is there's an old guy who is the main characters teacher, at some point the old teacher has to use something to put up a barrier around the city their in, and some scene about silkworms being evil, and a scene where the teacher shows a lesson with a moth and a light bulb. I'm probably insane though.
openWinter Movie Western Animation
An animated movie where two kids are given a snowflake and asked to go to another dimension/ world. They have to get back before their snowflake melts, Along the way they meet snow white and she has some sort of a north eastern accent I believe. They also meet other fairytale characters and at the end all of the characters are there in some large room. Some witch shows up and they decide to let her in at the end.
openGiant robot piloted by people Western Animation
i know, i know the title is vague but sadly that's what i'm working with, now i'm fairly certain this was from the 80s or 90s as i had a VHS or two of it as a child but i can't for the life of me remember anything about the name of the show.
There is one episode that has stuck with me though and it is based on easter island and there are bird people there that attack them and some of the heads get up out of the ground i think and attack them also... i would really love to remember what this show was because it's been driving me up the wall for years.
openSomething tells me it wasn't a classic Western Animation
Given Easter is coming soon I'm curious if anyone is familiar with one thing related to the holiday I saw on VHS years ago. It was 3D in appearance so I guess that means it was either CGI or claymation. As for the plot what I can truly remember is the villain of the special captured the Easter Bunny and his best friend where he tied them above a pool, they get eaten by a shark but eventually manage to escape by singing a song that made the shark sad so he spit them back out or something.
openNo Title Western Animation
i'm hoping you can help me!
i was in germany in 1996 and watched an old animated film dubbed in german (only caught about the last half an hour or so). i'm pretty sure it was from eastern europe—the names in the credits looked more polish or slavic rather than russian. for some reason i felt like i had seen it as a child so it was probably from the 70s or possibly earlier.
the details i can remember: a boy and girl are underground (in a castle?) trying to escape. the evil (queen? witch?) had vulture-like minions working for her and to fool them, they flew to the stairs that wound around a large column and had various dark spots for doorways—one of them disguised itself as a doorway to throw off the children's count.
the children spoke with blind people who asked about what it was like above ground and the children told them—especially about sunlight.
and at some point some large mechanical robot like creature destroyed the "castle" they were in and the blind people could feel the sunlight coming in and were then "freed."
needless to say, it was a bizarre story and the part of the minion disguising itself as a dark doorway really tripped me out. i have always wondered about this movie and want to see the whole thing, especially because while watching it as a young adult, i had flashbacks of watching it as a child (possibly in Korea or the U.S.). I hope someone here can help! thanks!!
openNo Title Western Animation
Okay there was this Easter special that YTV used to air every year about a girl with red hair finding a purple egg pendant during an easter egg hunt. She(and maybe her brother but I'm not sure) fall through a rabbit hole and end up in a different world. It turns out the pendant is magic and the bad guy is after it. I recall a scene where the girl is trapped in pink cotton candy or something and has to use her teeth to reach the pendant. Also I believe that it was sponsored or produced or somehow connected to Cadbury Chocolate and they even released a map of the world the cartoon takes place in(or a fold up book that was also a map).
openNo Title Western Animation
Anyone familiar with a strange Eastern European/Russian cartoon from way back? It featured a peculiar fairy story setting in which three heroes (one fat, one thin, and one squat) fall in love with three local girls (one scene that comes to mind is when the fat hero falls for a milk maid, and helps carry her milk yolk). Unfortunately, there is a local haunting and the trio are tasked with trying to eradicate a house stuffed full of ghosts, ghouls, witches and a smorgasbord of monsters. They eventually kick the crap out of the ghosts, stuffing them in a barrel and ridding the town of evil.
I remember seeing this years ago on a crummy old video, though it was probably released decades ago (anywhere from 1940s up to 1970s). Done in colour, somewhat shoddy quality animation.
Edited by maninahat
Circa 1986 at a Christmas party, I saw a short stop-motion animated film that looked like it could have been made in Eastern Europe (similar in style to the work of the Polish Se-ma-for studio). It was about a little girl who had a set of watercolors, but was very messy in using them. So to teach her a lesson, each cake from the watercolor set absorbed its respective color from the world around and then they ran away. When the girl came out, she found that the entire world had turned black and white. She eventually found the watercolors dancing around a rainbow, and they restored color to the world. What was this?