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Sep 13, 2021Liked by Animation Obsessive Staff

Thanks for this long article on "The Snow Queen"! I hadn't been aware of its heavy influence on Miyazaki. I finally added the film to Animatsiya.net, so it's now possible to watch it online with subtitles in 8 languages, and included a mention of this article: https://www.animatsiya.net/film.php?filmid=658

The first video is an AI-assisted HD version of it currently on Youtube that looks quite nice to my eyes (or as nice as we'll get until there is a proper HD release, which there surprisingly hasn't been yet).

This is one of those films that I (somewhat oddly) haven't paid as much attention to *because* it is so universally famous.

By the way, there is an earlier excellent 1946 Soyuzmultfilm animation, "The Song of Joy", that also features a young girl getting kidnapped by the queen of cold: https://www.animatsiya.net/film.php?filmid=657 (although other elements of the story differ). Many of the Soviet cartoons of that immediately post-war era feel so cozy...

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Aug 6, 2021Liked by Animation Obsessive Staff

Thanks so much for the link to watch Snow Queen! That clip of the old woman pulling Gerda's boat put me in mind of Spirited Away.

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Aug 2, 2021Liked by Animation Obsessive Staff

These retro ads are gems. In the vein of "they just don't make them how they used to," I feel there's a certain charm that we just don't see anymore in animations short or long (I've heard Miyazaki himself bemoaning this at least once during a crit session with young animators btw). Also, Snow Queen open in a tab waiting to be viewed...

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