A series that tells the history of Soviet puppet animation by means of an anthology of puppet animation together with brief texts.
10xDVD | PAL | 47 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian and others
Subtitles: English
Genre: Animation
You'll never have more fun learning and exploring the wonders of science than with these delightful animated films from beloved, Academy Award- winning director Frank Capra.
First, Peabody Award-winning Dr. Frank Baxter shows the fascinating path taken by blood throughout the body in Hemo the Magnificent, a humorous tour of the body's amazing plumbing system filled with memorable characters and eye-popping microscopic photography.
Then go from the inner body to the upper heights of our planet as the Unchained Goddess of weather joins Dr. Baxter for a colorful look at our atmosphere, complete with cartoon characters like Wind, Clouds and Rain.
It was the fourth and last film in the series that was produced by Frank Capra, who wrote the screenplay with Jonathan Latimer. Unlike the first three of the films, this film was directed by Richard Carlson, who also appears in the film.
DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 00:54:49 + 00:54:39 | 3.99 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Animation
Created by Steven Spielberg, Amazing Stories is a fantasy, horror, and science fiction television anthology series featuring an all-star roster of guest stars that originally ran on NBC from 1985 to 1987.
The series was nominated for 12 Emmy Awards and won five. The first season episode "The Amazing Falsworth" earned writer Mick Garris an Edgar Award for Best Episode in a TV Series. The series title licensed the name of Amazing Stories, the first dedicated science fiction magazine. The show was particularly notable for the talent on display both in front of and behind the camera. Guest star appearances included Kevin Costner, Harvey Keitel, Gregory Hines, Charlie Sheen, David Carradine, Jon Cryer, Mark Hamill, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, Andrew McCarthy, Rhea Perlman, Patrick Swayze, Sam Waterston, Danny DeVito, Seth Green, Kyra Sedgwick, Kiefer Sutherland, Milton Berle, Tim Robbins and many more. Meanwhile, directors and writers on the show included such legendaries as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Danny DeVito, Timothy Hutton, Robert Zemeckis, Tobe Hooper and Brad Bird.
The Radio Times billed it as "a collection of fantastic tales of the bizarre and unusual, featuring a varying array of stars and directors..."
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There hardly is a time in world history more politically polarized than the 20th century, which divided the globe in two camps — capitalism and communism — divided at the height of the divergence by the infamous Iron Curtain. The Cold War was very much a war of ideologies and each side relied heavily on the ideological unity of its people, often employing the power of the visual arts — graphic design, animation, illustration — to drive its message home. From 1924 to perestroika the USSR produced 41 animated propaganda films. Their target was the new nation and their goal was to win over the hearts and minds of the Soviet people. Anti-American, Anti-British, Anti-German, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Fascist, some of these films are as artistically beautiful as the great political posters made after the 1917 revolution which inspired Soviet animation. Unearthed from Moscow's legendary Soyuzmultfilm Studios, the 41 films in Animated Soviet Propaganda span sixty years of Soviet history.
4 x DVD | NTSC 4:3 | 8h 34min | 21.7 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Animation
More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931 showcases the astonishing creative range and vitality of American motion pictures in their first four decades through examples preserved by the nation's leading silent-film archives. The box set covers the years from 1894 through 1931, when the motion pictures grew from a peepshow curio to the nation's fourth largest industry. This is the period from which fewest American films survive.
The programs presents 50 films and 6 previews never before available on good-quality video, from the earliest surviving sound film, produced in 1894 by Thomas Edison's laboratory, to A Bronx Morning (1931), an avant-garde documentary by Jay Leyda. Among the rare works are Clash of the Wolves starring the original Rin-Tin-Tin, the first surviving film of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Ernst Lubitsch's Lady Windermere's Fan, kinetoscopes of Annie Oakley and Thomas Edison, a sing-along with Ko-Ko the Clown, educational shorts on making light bulbs and telephone etiquette, the earliest film of a Martha Graham dance, a cartoon satire on prohibition by Gregory La Cava, and footage of the rural South by novelist Zora Neale Hurston. All films are mastered from the best surviving source material and preserved by the contributing archive.
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Soviet film Director film Studio "Soyuzmultfilm", writer, animator and Director. He took the famous Moldavian fairy tale “the Nut twig” and the hilarious, witty film “the Boy from Naples” and “How mushrooms with peas fought”, created a series of paintings on the epic about Ilya of Murom and filmed a number of Russian fairy tales. He was verbose, explained its Director's intentions quite florid. Once they heard the explanation of the multiplier got up and said grimly: “Amsterdam!” At some time it became the nickname of Aksenchuk.
The last great fairytale animation film maker in the classic soyuzmultfilm tradition, but also a great lover of the humoristic-satirical genre and later in his carreer epic-lyrical animations IVAN AKSENCHUK presented in a 4 DVD series of his complete work. His animation-career ran from 1948-1988.
4 x DVD5 | PAL | 16.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Animation
The Latvian animation tradition that began in the 1960s is one of the strongest areas in Latvian cinema – diverse in genre and technology, full of creative revelations. Now, in the 21st century, Latvian animation is proud of their success at international festivals and of the strength of their creative core, their thriving studios and outstanding authors.
Arnolds Burovs, who made more than 40 films, began puppet animation at the Riga Film Studio. Burovs’ vision was carried forward by director Janis Cimermanis and artist Maris Putnins, who later became the producer of many films. They founded the studio Animacijas Brigade in 1992, and cultivated the studio’s recognizable visual signature and tone – comical, sincere, adventure-filled. Animacijas Brigade (Studio AB) is one of the most tradition-rich Latvian animation studios, and their films are regularly included in international film festival programmes. They’re frequent guests at the Berlinale – Cimermanis’ film “Corrida” was in the 2012 line up, and Dace Riduzes’ films have visited the festival on three occasions: “Firefly” in 2003, and “Acorn Boy” and “Little Rudy” in 2013. In 1994, Nils Skapans’ film “Let’s Fly” received the Berlinale Crystal Bear award.
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Experimental animation is a broad notion that can be applied to many genres of animated film that break with formal and narrative conventions.
The present anthology is a selection of some forty productions that do not quite fit into the mainstream of film animation. On the three discs the viewer will find abstract films, films composed of photographic images subjected to manipulation, as well as animations drawn in unconventional fashion. Some of these are works by well-known artists from beyond the cinematic milieu - writer Stefan Themerson and his painter wife Franciszka, for example, the designer Andrzej Pawlowski, or the photographer Tomek Sikora. There are also works by leading Polish contemporary artists like Jozef Robakowski and Jerzy Kalina. There is no lack of work by world-renowned animators like Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk, Zbigniew Rybczynski or Jerzy Kucia. The choice of films included in the Anthology of Polish Experimental Animation is so varied that every viewer is sure to find something of great interest.
3 x DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 258 minutes | 10.4 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Polish
Subtitles: English, Polish
Genre: Animation, Experimental
Directed by Henri Xhonneux Ribald, violent, surreal and satirical, Marquis offers a unique take on the events leading up to the French revolution as seen from the perspective of the notorious Marquis de Sade. Presented in metaphorical terms, each of the actors' faces are covered by an animal mask that more or less represents their character.
The dog-faced Marquis de Sade is imprisoned in the Bastille for blasphemy, where he entertains himself by writing pornographic novels and holding long conversations with his talking penis. Among the other prisoners is Justine, a pregnant cow who claims she was raped and is carrying the King’s child. The prison’s Confessor plots to hide the bastard heir by claiming De Sade is the father; meanwhile, outside the Bastille walls revolutionaries would like to free the political prisoners for their own purposes.
DVD5 + DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:19:22 | 4.36 Gb + 7.81 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Francais, Deutsch
Subtitles: English, Francais, Deutsch
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Director: Henri Xhonneux
Cast: Francois Marthouret, Valerie Kling, Michel Robin
Country: Belgium, France
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The Tale of Honzik and Marenka employs an ingenious animation technique using cut-out figures that is typical of the creative genius of Karel Zeman, the writer and director of this 66-minute film. The sophistication of the technique, and a sprinkling of puns and twists in the story line that bring out a moral parable on the meaning of liberty, justice, and other social issues, make the fairy tale enjoyable for adults as well as children. The story itself centers on a poor shepherd who overcomes enormous obstacles, including one ugly physical transformation, with the help of the forest elves and their magic. The shepherd is in love with a beautiful woman - in reality, a fairy changed into a beautiful young woman - and he is out to gain her affections and marry her.
DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 01:05:02 | 6.03 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Czech(Ceske)
Subtitles: English, Czech(Ceske)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Karel Zeman
Cast: Otakar Brousek, Antonin Prochazka, Nada Konvalinkova
Country: Czechoslovakia
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