Early Russian cartoon: The Returned Sun (+English subtitles)

[SeeThroughStone]

The seaweed became a forest to stop the big meanie. This is actually a pretty bold idea. Like it.

[fund60]

Shoe and shoelace! One is meaningless without the other

[yummieyummie123]

I love how the characters look like actual normal-looking (Inuit) people, especially for the time it was made. American cartoons around the same era (and beyond) often drew unflattering (and damaging) negative stereotypes of ethnic minorities. Must be also a difference in style as well since I notice that these cartoons are somewhat less "cartoony" than the American cartoons from this time. Thanks for the upload!

[samsarajan]

that kiss on 6:26.............it is something.

[DooDzVongola]

in soviet russia cartoon make you!

[shaemae123]

that inuit man is awesome!

[Hi88378]

Recently I saw u made the norshteyns good night children video private I was wondering if u could make it public again it was the song I listened to everyday when I was younger and that was the only video that had that song please put it back up

[Gothicemokidd1]

=) The Best Cartoon i have seen

[WhiteRavenJane]

fantastic :-)) 5*****

[0601989m]

Music starting at '5.54: Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36, composed by Edvard Grieg, 1883.

Thank you Niffiwan! You are helping to turn youtube into an archive of material otherwise extremely rare in the west. Lucky us! We are living historic times! (said mankind, every time)

[AvantGardeGuy2]

Clearly influenced by western cartoonists, but still retains that European sense of storytelling. The scene at 5:18 references Gustav Dore's drawings of whales.

[vororo85]

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[Saturnome]

Cool animation with great camera movements! That's not something you see often, and it's always impressive in hand drawn animation.

[Gesmehod]

This is pretty hypnotizing.

Why does the sun-girl have two pet fish?

[Niffiwan]

@Gesmehod I don't think they're her pet fish... I think they're just keeping her company. :)

I agree with you about "hypnotizing". I think it has partly to do with the reuse of animation (notice that several scenes actually loop a few times), which is another holdover from the pre-Soyuzmultfilm era that disappeared soon after. It does create a nice structure, though, and gives the viewer a second chance to appreciate complicated scenes.

[zooplankton1]

Thanks for sharing

[Lemniskaten]

The legend of which people is this, do you know?

[nutherefurlong]

@Lemniskaten Good question, I was wondering that too. Perhaps Samoyed Boy suggests it's from one of the cultures that speak Samoyedic languages, most of whom have traditional lands in northern Siberia

[Niffiwan]

@nutherefurlong Yes... the fact that Itte has a tame reindeer also suggests this. The various Samoyedic people, like their distant relations the Sami, are reindeer herders. Unlike the Sami, they don't use fences and have homes on sleds that are pulled by reindeer across the tundra (or at least some of them do, anyway).