Zin5ki said:
Sy said:
There's something I find rather fascinating about older animation.
Vinnie Puh! Vinnie Puh!
Subbed versions, though not in quite as good quality are at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcIiwmclfvw&fmt=18,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qam9JBk5Oig&fmt=18,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73uIn56G1YE&fmt=18 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtVVRuy1T9c&fmt=18 (thanks to
niffiwan for listing these on one page and translating the first film). But both these and
Hols are from the 1960s, though, and I've long considered anything post-UPA (i.e. since the early to mid-1950s) to be within the modern era of animation. In terms of anime, if you want to see something
really old, try these samples from Digital Meme and Zakka Films' releases:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Japa ... llection_1 http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Japa ... llection_3 http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Japa ... llection_4 http://www.zakkafilms.com
I really like the mysterious atmosphere of
Hols, I might add. It's age, the alienness that comes with that and other unintentional things, like the contrast between the key scenes that are some of the most elaborate in all of anime and those which are represented by animatics (due to having used up more than the allotted time and budget on the first few they did), certainly contribute to this but so do the commitment and ingenuity invested in it (in particular, the distinctively detailed crashing water in several scenes continues to astound and haunt me). If I were to say one bad word against it, it's that the conclusion (and, to some extent, the beginning) are too stereotypically happy and heroic; they feel out of place with what comes in-between and I feel them to have a disposability that makes
Hols one of those films that lives better in one's memory than unfolding in front of them. The are also some glaring mistakes, inconsistencies and, most of all, absences in the subtitles on the Optimum DVD but I don't want that to put people off buying or seeing it: this is the only one of the classic Tôei Dôga features available on a R2-compatible home video format with English subtitles (R1 has three other, different ones), and they're something that anyone should take what they can get of.
