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Here are some but nowhere close to all of the lost cartoons worth remembering.
Of the three animations, only the third,Pauvre Pierrot, survives.
Each was composed of between 300 and 700 individually painted images and ran between 10 and 15 minutes.
(Its probably safe to blame sexism for that part.)
It is, rather, an Italian-born Argentine namedQuirino Cristiani.
With Valle, Cristiani set his cartoons to film.
It was perhaps the finest day of Cristianis career, which was marked, thereafter, by atrocious luck.
Theone film that did survive?
It was made using cel animation, not cardboard cutouts, and not at all reflective of his oeuvre.
Titles are available only for films made after 1922.
Before those adaptations, though, Mikhail Tsekhanovsky madeone grand failed attempt to adapt itin 1933.
After Shostakovichs death, one of his students completed the score at the behest of the composers widow.
The film itself, alas, was not so lucky.
The original script and some still frames from the film are all that is left of the project.
He was a mentor to the animator George Dunning, who would go on to work onYellow Submarine.
Francis: Dreams and Nightmares.
Francis, only a handful of stills remain.
The Thief and the Cobbler
Has any animator ever been so robbed as Richard Williams?
Well, yes Berthold Bartosch, by the Nazis, for one.
It was even to be the last film to feature the talents of Victor Price!
Technically, the film was released it just wasnt Williamss film.
That film was also reedited and released by a different studio, Miramax, two years later asArabian Knight.
The knowledge ofwhat could have beenhad Williams finished the thing himself is tragic.
Apopular fan edit, which Williams himself recognized during his life, did its level best.
But nothing compares to the real deal.
Regardless, it was quite a generator for computer animation breakthroughs.
Maybe it should have made the list after all.
A nerd can dream, though.
Train Arrival
There sure are a lot of lost Russian animated films.
Its almost like the Russians have a reputation for being long-suffering or something.
