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Ann Miller and Tommy Rall in Kiss Me Kate (1953)

Nino Rota - ‘What Light through yonder Window breaks?’ (1968)

Part One of The Story of the Dead Princess and a Brave Family  – based on Pushkin’s retelling of Snow White By Soyuzmultfilm (1951)

Director: Ivan Ivanov-Vano. Written by Ivan Ivanov-Vano,Yuriy Olesha. Artists: L. Milchin, J. Berezovsky. Composer: Yuriy.Nikolskiy.

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Part Two here

Part Three here

Part Four here

Can we forever mourn the 1984 Yoshifumi Kondo Little Nemo pilot for the Ghibliesque adaptation that never came to be? Because revisiting the 1989 final product that was spun out from that entire developmental hell process that had every writer, animator and director of notable accreditation plus the kitchen sink at one point attached and then left, booted or removed from the project, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland is sadly…not as good as I remember it was as a kid despite being my favorite film for a long time. It still has a degree of merit but consistency is not one of them. It would have been nice to see an entire Kondo production with the simplicities presented here which clearly resembles future Studio Ghibli works. Naturally I think the animation here is prettier, more skillfully done and that Nemo’s character design is more appealing than he ended up being.

Yoshifumi Kondo (director), Kazuhide Tomonaga (animation director/e-konte/key animator), Nobuo Tomizawa (key animation), Kyoto Tanaka (key animation), and Nizo Yamamoto (art director). Drawn in full animation and shot in 70mm.

The pilot is NOT a Ghibli production, though Miyazaki was attached to the movie in the early 80’s. Proves much of the so called ‘Miyazaki style’ is more dependent on the ensemble of animators and designers not one particular person.

There is a second (or third as one other director’s pilot is unreleased) 10 minute 1987 pilot by Osamu Dezaki (of Lupin the 3rd, The Rose of Versailles and Rainbow Brite fame) that notably has yet again a different animation style and character designs than in Kondo’s pilot and the final product, particularly more 80’s “cute”.  However Osamu’s pilot which is scripted does show elements of the final script, including the ridiculous magical-girl come phallic scepter Nemo uses against The Nightmare King. You can view that here.

Francine Bergé in Judex (1963)

Edith Scob, Francine Bergé in Judex (1963)

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The Saragossa Manuscript / Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie