Forum - View topicAnimated Documentaries!
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voodooninjamunky
Posts: 2 Location: maine |
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Help! I'm doing research for a class, and I'm wondering if anyone knows of any animated documentaries??? japanese or otherwise.
arigato jin |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
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Try Google. I don't think any of these is Japanese, though. Search the web first next time, please.
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jfrog
 Posts: 925 Location: Seattle |
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I know that Frédéric Back has done some animated documentaries, I've seen The Mighty River, the one he did on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Jaw-droppingly gorgeous stuff. I think the National Film Board of Canada put out a ginormous box set of his work, but dunno where to buy it. Check the usual online places, I guess.
And then there's Chris Landreth's Ryan, which won the Oscar for Best Animated Short last year - I found it to be very exploitative of Ryan Larkin's personal problems, but that could just be my own perspective as an almost fanboy-like devotee of Larkin's Walking. And it's not animated, but Takahata once did a live-action documentary about the history of the canals in this one Japanese town. My video store has a copy of it, and I've been meaning to check it out for a while. Jesus. I'm sure there's tons out there that I'm just forgetting. There's one on the tip of my tongue, but I've got to head off to class now, so maybe it'll come to me later. |
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samuraiwalt
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Ryan is playing on Sundance Channel this month. |
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MonkeyFunk
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There's a very early one called The Sinking of the Lusitania; it's by Winsor McCay (Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur) and is on the DVD with the rest of his cartoon.
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jfrog
Posts: 925 Location: Seattle |
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Oh, right! I can't believe I forget Lusitania. Though it really blurs the line between documentary and propaganda, since the idea behind it is more to incite the American public into entering WWI than anything to do with truth. But a lot of my favorite live-action docs don't have much to do with trying to find some kind of objective reality (Sans Soleil, Close-Up, Koyaanisqatsi, etc), so maybe I shouldn't try to make that distinction. Whatever. Either way, it's interesting to watch.
Anyways, I just remembered The Moon and the Sun and A Room Nearby, both of which I haven't seen, but really want to. |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4551 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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I think the rotoscoped, non-comedy parts of the largely-forgotten Peanuts Memorial Day special, What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? also would fit somewhat well within the category of "animated documentary".
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afnj
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I guess you can also count in the Disney animated shows from the 50s about space travle and living on the moon. and of corse Ludwig Von Drake was a part of many disney documentaries in the 60's and 70's. I used to love them as a kid and wish disney would realese them on DVD.
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