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Natsume_Maya
03-27-2008, 08:23 PM
From the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) news website:

"Two of Japan's oldest animation films - a folk tale and a comedy about a samurai warrior - have been recovered more than 90 years after they premiered."

See here for more details:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/28/2201373.htm
Suwako Moriya
03-27-2008, 08:50 PM
It must have been a huge stroke of luck. If they're smart, they won't let that luck go to waste.
Lego
03-27-2008, 10:40 PM
Upon their discovery said films were then discussed by anime fans who broke them down so much and tried to dissect them that they were left with two minutes of actual run time.
ilmaestro
03-27-2008, 10:56 PM
Damn, that's awesome.
martod
03-28-2008, 07:15 AM
Oh my goodness...

What a horrifying time in Japanese history...

THERE WAS NO MOE!
Greywing
03-28-2008, 01:22 PM
Oh my goodness...

What a horrifying time in Japanese history...

THERE WAS NO MOE!

That sounds like heaven, actually...
Panko
03-28-2008, 02:03 PM
do these pre-date the one found last time that was only like a few seconds long? or am i confusing it with some other non-anime animation?
curr
03-28-2008, 07:12 PM
Wow. That really neat.

Samurai stories never go out of style!
Citizen Klaus
03-28-2008, 07:44 PM
As someone who actually bought Digital Meme's Japanese Anime Classic Collection, I say good show. Cinema works need to be preserved, and there certainly isn't enough surviving material from the pre-war era.

This can only be good news for film scholarship.
Hayate Kurogane
03-28-2008, 08:26 PM
As someone who actually bought Digital Meme's Japanese Anime Classic Collection

Wait, what? It was released? I missed it?
Citizen Klaus
03-28-2008, 08:34 PM
As someone who actually bought Digital Meme's Japanese Anime Classic Collection

Wait, what? It was released? I missed it?

Yup, it's out (http://www.digital-meme.com/en/our_products/dvds/index.html#japananime).

And good, too. My film professor and I have been pouring over the set for an independent study that I'm doing on anime. Some of the propaganda films are truly illuminating -- everyone needs to see the "Sankichi the Monkey" shorts, IMHO.