@Cyborg009 said in Non-Disney animation thread:
@Ubiq shinbone alley: i read about once but it didn't appeal to me as much. though mehitabel seemed pretty.
It's just okay. A really odd thing to choose to adapt in the first place since the musical it was based on didn't run very long and the series that inspired the musical (which was at least partially known for being drawn by George Herriman) had ended over three decades before the film.
It'd be like if somebody made a musical about US Acres in the mid-2000s and then adapted it to film today.
The Dragon that Wasn't Or Was He? and Princess Featherhair: never seen/heard of them.
Featherhair is an Eastern European film whose untranslated title I can never remember. Hrufurur? Something along those lines. The Dragon was Dutch and based on some of the Martin Toonder comics.
The Magician's Hat: if you're referring to the sequel of Elm-Chanted Forest then yes i have seen that as well as the Elm Chanted Forest.
Yeah, it is. It's not as well known as Elm-Chanted Forest though.
of course by rare also means overlooked and sometimes obscure movies. such as Millionaire Dogs, The Fearless Four, Tom Sawyer, the Princess and the Goblin, most of Rankin and Bass works.
The Fearless Four is the Bremen Town Musician film while Tom Sawyer is the one with the anthro cast or was there one cut out of the anime?
I've seen The Princess and the Goblin but I remember it as much for the fact that ads for it ran on a bunch of video tapes from that era, far more than you'd expect considering how badly it flopped. A quick check says that it was distributed by Columbia so that's probably why that happened since they put out a lot of VHS tapes for a bunch of different studios.
Rankin-Bass is in a weird area where they have a bunch of stuff that's super well-known and annual fixtures but everything outside of that is pretty much forgotten, including the majority of their holiday specials. Shows like The Stingiest Man in Town, The First Easter Bunny, or Pinocchio's Christmas are pretty much completely overshadowed by the other specials to the point that I don't remember seeing them as a kid. Plus pretty much all of their feature films, outside of, arguably, The Last Unicorn, and a lot of their television shows never get talked about that much either.
Also the First Easter Bunny also reminded me of The American Rabbit for whatever reason, which feels like a film clumsily edited out of an entire season of a TV show, but, as far as I'm aware, was actually made as a standalone film.
the list is longer but i'm having trouble remembering them
The more I talk about films like this, the more they come up unbidden. I just remembered Cat City was a thing that exists along with The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz, which actually is a film slapped together out several episodes of a show.
@Robby said in Non-Disney animation thread:
Allegro non troppo is a weird one. It's about a man who wants to basically make Fantasia, animation set to classical music... and then discovers Disney already did it, so he makes his own much lower quality version but with naked people in it and a lot more surrealism. Produced by an old lady orchestra and an animator chained up against his will.
Not sure why this makes me think of Belladona of Sadness and Hugo the Hippo but, well, there we are.
I don't remember Ronin Warriors being in the lineup either, maybe it was a weekday thing in a weird timeslot. Wikipedia has a pretty extensive listing but includes a ton of other stuff that must have been from the 2007 run and they don't break them up so I have no idea where the line is beyond "I don't remember that at all."
They had a morning block of cartoons as well so I'm not sure if it was that or if there was a film made out of a few episodes that they aired.
The one that gives me pause is MD Geist apparently only being a revival thing since I would almost swear that was one that aired back in the original lineup back in the day. If nothing else, it seems odd that Central Park Media didn't push it down Sci-Fi Channel's throat.
There were other things that I first watched on Encore Action back when it had an anime block; like Fist of the North Star, New Dominion Tank Police, Gunsmith Cats, Black Magic M-66, and... something else. Patlabor maybe?
I think one of the other Encore channels aired things like Tekken and Grave of the Fireflies as well.
I'm kinda curious to revisit some of these things now. Its been so long I don't remember them beyond the title and maybe some very vague imagery.
I'm that way about Lensman; I keep meaning to watch it sometime since scenes of it stuck in my head for well over a decade before I found out what it was but I didn't care for the book when I tried to read it all those years ago.