A Beginner's Guide to Yugoslavian Animation

Фильм және анимация

This video serves as an introduction to Yugoslavian animation. I discuss mostly the short films of Zagreb Film, but also TV shows such as Professor Balthazar.
Slight correction, the title and year in the captions at 3:16 are incorrect.
You can watch my beginner’s guide to Soviet animated cinema here:
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You can watch my beginner’s guide to Hungarian animated cinema here:
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0:00 Intro
1:58 First Wave
9:44 Second Wave
16:43 Third Wave
19:09 80s/Outro
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  • @kubricklynch
    @kubricklynch4 ай бұрын

    If you'd like to support the channel you can donate here: Venmo @Evan-Chester Or www.paypal.me/EvanChester Slight correction, the title and year in the captions at 3:16 are incorrect.

  • @madflag_

    @madflag_

    4 ай бұрын

    Can you do South Korean animated cinema? Seems like most people only talk about North Korean animated cinema, Pucca or Boondocks, curious if you'd find more :> . p.s. love your videos!!

  • @ramirocaorlin4613

    @ramirocaorlin4613

    3 ай бұрын

    I still hope you can do a Argentinian animation video. As a suggestion of argentinian animations to check out, I recommend you the film "Anima Buenos Aires" (2012), an antology of four animated shorts from different artists and animators from Argentina (such as Caloi, Carlos Nine, Juan Pablo Zaramella, Pablo Rodriguez Jauregui, etc).

  • @RVARAD

    @RVARAD

    3 ай бұрын

    Can you do a guide to the digital animation films?

  • @JmKrokY

    @JmKrokY

    3 ай бұрын

    Very cool

  • @legitusername-zl7to

    @legitusername-zl7to

    3 ай бұрын

    old vietnameese animation ?

  • @danijeljovic4971
    @danijeljovic49714 ай бұрын

    As someone from former yugoslavia it's extremely surprising to see so much anti-consumerism, anti-war and pro inviduality messages in yugoslav animation. EX yugo countries today are extremely nationalist, consumerist and conservative

  • @maltelorenz1726

    @maltelorenz1726

    4 ай бұрын

    Maybe artists back then weren't conformists.

  • @danielmessias9139

    @danielmessias9139

    4 ай бұрын

    Better than it would be communist, totalitarist, and non-consummist because there was NOTHING to consumme!

  • @MrZhersh

    @MrZhersh

    4 ай бұрын

    So much of the economy was structured along communitarian and collective lines, it makes sense that anti-war and non-consumerist attitudes would grow out of that.

  • @CineMadame

    @CineMadame

    4 ай бұрын

    Why is it surprising? Yugoslavia was a progressive, socialist country proud of its independence and dedication to a peaceful "third way" of existence, eschewing the bellicose propaganda of the superpowers. As for the garbage neoliberal banana countries that rose on its corpse, there's nothing to say... I hope the chauvinist monsters enjoy what they have wrought.

  • @ileutur6863

    @ileutur6863

    4 ай бұрын

    We also had more musicians, painters, architects, everything basically. Now everyone is moving to the west because our economies have failed them. The nationalists want to erase that part of history because they don't want people to remember how good they really had it.

  • @Klemeron
    @Klemeron4 ай бұрын

    I met Marušić at an airport in 2018. He remembered me because he was in the film festival jury that had awarded my own animation short in the young creators category. He was very friendly and mentorly, giving me advice I still carry to this day, and schooled me a bit in the history of Zagreb animation, to which I was quite ignorant at the time (and he the leading professor at the university's animation and new media masters programme). I still think about that, and the random chance of us meeting at that airport. The movie he seemed most proud of was Riblje Oko. Apparently he'd also made a feature film, though he promosed to never do it again. Ha.

  • @kubricklynch

    @kubricklynch

    4 ай бұрын

    Wow that’s awesome!

  • @epzanoletty

    @epzanoletty

    3 ай бұрын

    meeting a master of your own field, part of your own country's history in that field and getting a chance at talking with him and sharing wisdom must be like a dream come true for many, really amazing that you had that opportunity

  • @graphictwitch-5355

    @graphictwitch-5355

    3 ай бұрын

    What sort of...aesthetic would you call this?

  • @idegteke
    @idegteke2 ай бұрын

    OMG, Professor Balthazar in the thumbnail! I recognised him instantly after not seeing him for nearly half a century

  • @andyzhang7890
    @andyzhang78904 ай бұрын

    As a fan of Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Dexter’s lab and Samurai Jack) it’s so cool to discover one of the goldmines of an animation tradition that he drew inspiration from

  • @chobies5383

    @chobies5383

    4 ай бұрын

    I didn't know that Genndy was inspired by Yugoslav animation, but watching it I can tell.

  • @Mohammadhamzasiddiqui2008

    @Mohammadhamzasiddiqui2008

    3 ай бұрын

    same

  • @tompanoname3579

    @tompanoname3579

    3 ай бұрын

    Check out ex YU new wave and punk if you r into it...

  • @MegaZidzid

    @MegaZidzid

    3 ай бұрын

    @@tompanoname3579 bull's eye

  • @johnson941
    @johnson9413 ай бұрын

    I grew up watching Professor Baltazar, so it is very interesting to actually find out about the history of the Yugoslavian animation.

  • @Recessbiru
    @Recessbiru4 ай бұрын

    Balthazar is still showed on Finnish television today so it's only Yugoslavian animation I know (beside The Elm-enchanted Forest). So it's cool to see other animation from there.

  • @johnlastname8752
    @johnlastname87523 ай бұрын

    Holy shit, this just unlocked a core memory of me watching episodes of Professor Balthazar on vhs tapes. I had no idea it was from Yugoslavia!

  • @usefulaccount1835
    @usefulaccount18354 ай бұрын

    Balthazar is on tubi at the moment, pls watch before it disappears!

  • @dominicgamboa2554
    @dominicgamboa25544 ай бұрын

    Love how well maintained the KZread channel for Zagreb Film is. Would love to have explained how it compares it to its other Central and Eastern European contemporaries.

  • @mjstecyk

    @mjstecyk

    4 ай бұрын

    While they don't post much animation as far as I know, Mosfilm has a pretty cool yt channel, they've posted lots of films including some really well known ones with translations. I've watched Stalker, Come and See, Dersu Uzala among others on their channel - all excellent films.

  • @thecandlemaker1329

    @thecandlemaker1329

    3 ай бұрын

    @@mjstecyk Mosfilm is not an animation studio, of course they don't post animation. You should look at Soyuzmultfilm instead. Although I've just checked their channel out and it's all their modern day productions, not the classics.

  • @aadamtx
    @aadamtx4 ай бұрын

    Excellent! I was fairly familiar with Soviet and Czech animators but didn't know much of anything about the Yugoslav industry. I'm hoping to get to Zagreb and then down to Trogir this summer, to explore some family history.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    4 ай бұрын

    Zagreb is still home to an animation festival held annually... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animafest_Zagreb

  • @kootunesscrewy
    @kootunesscrewy3 ай бұрын

    I love how these cartoons gave the UPA style a more cartoonishly abstract look. Something that many cartoons and those PBS Kids bumpers would later have.

  • @historiaestmagistravitae.7051
    @historiaestmagistravitae.70514 ай бұрын

    The cartoon "Surrogate" (Ersatz and The Substitute) in 1962 was the first cartoon outside the USA to win an Oscar, and the credit certainly goes to Dušan Vukotić. Yugoslav animation, especially Zagreb Film started from Soviet style to almost a mixture of classic Disney and folk ornamentation from Eastern Europe and I really enjoyed them as a child. Although Baltazar is my favorite Zagreb cartoon, I still liked the movies "The Wonderful Forest" and "The Wizard's Hat" the most, especially "The Wizard's Hat" where you have a fight against the total ice order established by Emperor Mr. Frost (the music of that composition was composed by Kornelije Kovač). It is a great pity that the war followed and that film did not reach the general public and that it was not dubbed into English, but for me that film is the greatest rise of Yugoslav and Croatian animation. After that comes Hlapić (Lapitch) and the decline of Croatian animation (the last one by Croatia Film was Good night Croatia), which can be seen all over the country. As for Serbian animation, I can't think of anything except Serbian Jet Set and Serbian folk tales in two episodes, but there are quality animators and artists there, the problem is finances who couldn't realize their ideas. Certainly, these are only examples of animation in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Certainly, an excellent critique and explanation related to it.

  • @tvsonicserbia5140

    @tvsonicserbia5140

    4 ай бұрын

    I totally forgot about Jet Set! That's a fantastic short film, it's basically Serbian South Park.

  • @k.drawscomics4422

    @k.drawscomics4422

    4 ай бұрын

    Technotise: Edit and I (2009)

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    4 ай бұрын

    In the 80's, a studio in Belgrade made a short were Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet was played by monsters. kzread.info/dash/bejne/po2Xk5qPYq_MnM4.htmlsi=j-_siVR_Z8UKlziY

  • @barrymoore4470

    @barrymoore4470

    3 ай бұрын

    Nikola Majdak (1927-2013) was a pioneering Serbian animator. His charming 1963 short 'Solista' has been uploaded at least of couple of times onto KZread.

  • @CorporalAngua

    @CorporalAngua

    3 ай бұрын

    If you're interested in Serbian animation you could (among other things) check out works by Rastko Ćirić, an animator and multimedia artist who founded the animation department at the Belgrade academy of applied arts.

  • @amafirenze-vi1uh
    @amafirenze-vi1uh3 ай бұрын

    Professor Balthazar was well known in the early 1970's here in Italy. State TV showed many episodes on sunday afternoon for the kid's audience.😊

  • @pietrobrunori581
    @pietrobrunori5814 ай бұрын

    Now we want Czech/Czechoslovakian/ Slovakian animation video, with Jiri Trnka and Jan Svankmajer. And maybe, after that, one about Poland Will be Just good for completing the Eastern Block Animation video series

  • @barrymoore4470

    @barrymoore4470

    3 ай бұрын

    I would add Romania and Bulgaria as well to round out Eastern Europe's exceptionally rich heritage of animation.

  • @psychedelicpirate3355
    @psychedelicpirate33554 ай бұрын

    I'm very glad Yugoslavias rich film history is getting some attention! I would love a video on Yugoslav (black) comedies (including the black wave movement) as well. Cheers from Belgrade!

  • @Pollicina_db
    @Pollicina_db4 ай бұрын

    Thank you/ Hvala from Croatia ❤

  • @lp0pic
    @lp0pic4 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sparking my interest for Croatian animation. I myself am Croatian and I knew, sadly, very little about it. The video is fantastic!

  • @BokicaK1
    @BokicaK13 ай бұрын

    A Serb is Here. The Magician's Hat had the most baddas sog Car Mrazomor (the Emperor Frostkiller)

  • @eggfing
    @eggfing4 ай бұрын

    I watched a lot of Professor Balthazar in my youth. Thank you for sharing this awesome video.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    4 ай бұрын

    They used to play those on Nickelodeon 40 years ago.

  • @dylandogg54
    @dylandogg544 ай бұрын

    Awesome video man! I grew up with Professor Baltazar even tho im 18 years old because it was my grandmas favorite cartoon. Even now when I hear the intro the nostalgia overwhelms me.

  • @Pollicina_db

    @Pollicina_db

    4 ай бұрын

    Same, takoder odrasla na Cudesnoj Sumi i Craobnjakovom sesiru. Hlapica nisam gledala sve do nedavno though.

  • @theotter6279

    @theotter6279

    3 ай бұрын

    Yeah it’s always been popular in Sweden so it’s nostalgic for me too

  • @SHMUGI2
    @SHMUGI23 ай бұрын

    Baltazar went so hard as a kid

  • @jesterbomb6763
    @jesterbomb67634 ай бұрын

    God every single clip you show is just so eye catching, they practically had this style MASTERED by the late 50s

  • @user-uc9ne8ow2u
    @user-uc9ne8ow2u4 ай бұрын

    It looks like Dexter's lavatory & power puff were Inspired by this

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    4 ай бұрын

    Dusan Vukotic's Cow on the Moon had characters that felt like they'd fit in Dexter's Lab's world.

  • @klasmedak556
    @klasmedak5563 ай бұрын

    I'm a Croat, and I fully, absolutely, highly commend your pronunciation of the various Croatian names and sounds (č, ć, ž, š, đ). Of course, "lj" and "nj" aren't quite on, but those are rarely known anyway.. Regardless, Kudos/Svaka Čast 👌👍

  • @Damian0358_
    @Damian0358_3 ай бұрын

    For anyone that wants to read more about Yugoslav animation, I would want to recommend the book 'Propaganda, Ideology, Animation. Twisted Dreams of History' from 2019. It dedicates a whole section to Yugoslavia, with two chapters focusing on the Zagreb School of animation and the lesser-known struggles of Serbian animation respectively. The section on Zagreb was even written by one of the animations mentioned in this video, the Bosnian animator Midhat Ajanović. I'll also take the opportunity to remind everyone that much of this video is focused on shorts. In terms of the lived-in experience of watching animation growing up in Yugoslavia, there was an immensely diverse mix, though this depended on where you were in the country. For the most part however, many kids in former Yugoslavia had the opportunity to grow up with animation icons from both West and East, whether it be the Looney Tunes and Scooby Doo, or Nu Pogodi and Bolek and Lolek.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    3 ай бұрын

    That's why I say those in the former Yugoslavia had the best of both worlds.

  • @chee.rah.monurB
    @chee.rah.monurB4 ай бұрын

    BALTAZAR!Oh wow I loved that cartoon! Happy new year (from Croatia) to all those who know that East Europe ISN'T just Poland,Ukraine & Russia!

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    4 ай бұрын

    At least Yugoslavia never sided with Stalin and did its own thing.

  • @k.m.1524

    @k.m.1524

    3 ай бұрын

    Croatia si central-western Europe

  • @timojarun7830

    @timojarun7830

    3 ай бұрын

    Ceoatia is (south)Cemtral Europe. Not east.

  • @chee.rah.monurB

    @chee.rah.monurB

    3 ай бұрын

    @@timojarun7830 Well it's on the eastern half of the continent. Not that it matters because the only countries there that the West(tm) can name are Poland,Greece,Russia,& recently Ukraine.

  • @kubricklynch

    @kubricklynch

    3 ай бұрын

    What is or isn't Eastern Europe is a matter of opinion.

  • @zdrowamoc3325
    @zdrowamoc33254 ай бұрын

    I'm 50+ Pole and find it very interesting. I knew almost nothing about Yugoslavian animated films of that era - and they are great. Would love to a video comparison of the all post-soviet animation artists. If you wanna taste Poland's one I would suggest the works of Julian Antonisz.

  • @mirkodimitrijevic726
    @mirkodimitrijevic7263 ай бұрын

    This brings me back, I used to watch Baltazar when I was very little, as a matter of fact, I probably have the CD lying around somewhere...

  • @hoppinggnomethe4154
    @hoppinggnomethe41543 ай бұрын

    Cartoon Network once adopted this art style for almost a decade

  • @carsland123
    @carsland1234 ай бұрын

    They really don't make stuff like this anymore. I am in love with the styles of the shorts from Zagreb film!

  • @barrymoore4470

    @barrymoore4470

    3 ай бұрын

    I love the visual quality of these animated classics as well. And this was all hand-drawn cel animation, no computer graphics or CGI to use back then. There was an artisanal quality to this work that has been largely lost today, and helps make these little filmic gems so special.

  • @CineMadame
    @CineMadame4 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much for this. I appreciate in particular the effort you have taken to pronounce names correctly, this is vanishingly rare, especially as you do a practically perfect job! Just one small correction--Zlatko Bourek's last name is pronounced Bow-rek--both the o and u are sounded separately, and not Boorek (like the cheese pastry).

  • @kubricklynch

    @kubricklynch

    4 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the tip!

  • @konstant_ly

    @konstant_ly

    3 ай бұрын

    Watch out, you might anger a Bosnian for calling burek a cheese pastry

  • @BinglesP
    @BinglesP4 ай бұрын

    Old slavic animation fascinates me, I'm happy this video exists to inform me more about this. I hope this video gets a lot more views than it currently does as I type, this is a great video and I feel more people should know about this.

  • @urizen62
    @urizen624 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for making those animation guide videos, so many of those works are criminally underrated, it's very nice to see someone put so much care in talking about them!

  • @darbywalker1
    @darbywalker14 ай бұрын

    Its amazing how experimental so many of these films are. Id love a more in depth look at these directors!!

  • @CineMadame

    @CineMadame

    4 ай бұрын

    Vatroslav Mimica was also a phenomenal feature film director. Unfortunately, there is too little interest in this cinema abroad, and too few resources in ex-Yugoslav countries for a proper restoration effort.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    4 ай бұрын

    Reminded Dusan Vukotic even made a live action sci-fi flick... kzread.info/dash/bejne/X2eV3MyxdLCyl5M.htmlsi=l2tLHhk8N303L5Tj

  • @jimdarius
    @jimdarius4 ай бұрын

    Thanks for making this! These look great.

  • @wigglyfruit4708
    @wigglyfruit47083 ай бұрын

    The stylistic look of the abstraction minimal backgrounds and dramatic animation with pose popping, and cartoon logic have definitely inspired so many cartoons like the pink panther, the ant and the anteater, some of looney toons designs and is quite unique.

  • @zakuraiyadesu
    @zakuraiyadesu4 ай бұрын

    Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

  • @GlassBeadRecords
    @GlassBeadRecords4 ай бұрын

    This is amazing, so glad to know this stuff exists, thank you!

  • @artirony410
    @artirony4104 ай бұрын

    dude I love these videos on lesser known animation scenes, keep it up!

  • @mrsoprano3848
    @mrsoprano38484 ай бұрын

    After a long time man. I really love your videos. I always look forward to them. Keep going man

  • @legobenj
    @legobenj4 ай бұрын

    I’d love to learn about Czech animation. I’m curious about what they’ve produced outside of Pat & Mat, which I grew up on.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    4 ай бұрын

    The "Little Mole" films of Zdeněk Miler were my childhood favorites

  • @yashabykhovsky2807

    @yashabykhovsky2807

    4 ай бұрын

    Krtek is my favorite, grew up on him and other Soyuzmultfilm cartoons@@ChristopherSobieniak

  • @fililip298

    @fililip298

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@ChristopherSobieniak krtek was my childhood 😍

  • @DansuB4nsu03

    @DansuB4nsu03

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@fililip298 As a Russian, I can confirm that Krtek is definitely one of the Eastern Bloc classics, popular to this day, and I couldn't be happier about it :D Personally, I'm more a fan of Soviet animation, but it's cool to learn how animation all around the Eastern Bloc, including Yugoslavia, had a lot of variety. Zdravejte, bratja sloveni! :D

  • @thinkforyourself518
    @thinkforyourself5183 ай бұрын

    wowww. Omg I need to look up and watch each of these, thank you so much.

  • @iamunabletousername1200
    @iamunabletousername1200Ай бұрын

    Along with his animations, Miki Muster is also fondly remembered in Slovenia because of his comics

  • @Zed-fq3lj
    @Zed-fq3lj4 ай бұрын

    Amazing animation and a great video! So a refreshing subject! A great channel on the whole - subscribed! You have many interesting videos to see, great work!

  • @shannacollins8371
    @shannacollins83712 ай бұрын

    Fascinating vid, thank you!

  • @troygaspard6732
    @troygaspard67324 ай бұрын

    Thanx, I have loved seeing this.

  • @draugn5823
    @draugn58233 ай бұрын

    Wow, I was not born back then, didn't know we had such profound animations

  • @tvsonicserbia5140
    @tvsonicserbia51404 ай бұрын

    Thanks so much for highlighting Yugoslav animation. After the dissolution of Yugoslavia, like most other things, the animation industry fell apart. The Croatian animators eventually made a Hlapic (knows as Lapitch English), a feature length film based on a old Croatian children's book but all the characters were turned into mice and rats and in general it's a very very quaint (if we're being nice) attempt to make something like a 50s Disney animal movie (it's even a musical). It's also 4:3, baffling for a movie from the 90s. Overall it has a feel of a typical cheap direct to video animated kiddie shlock from Europe except it wasn't outsourced to Korea. Then in 2023 the second Croatian animated film was made (counting after Yugoslavia) called Cricket & Antoinette, this time their first CG film. I haven't had the chance to watch it but it looks really really ugly, it's essentially like some A Bug's Life rip off. In Serbia during the 2000s we got the only two feature length animated films to date and very surprisingly, they are both VERY adult oriented. The first one is Film Noir. Even more surprisingly this film is only available in English and not Serbian, it features prolific American voice actors and takes place in L.A. It is a cel shaded black and white CG film, but while all that sounds super interesting it film is T E R R I B L E. Like it's almost insane that it even exists, the story is barely coherent and filled to the brim with extremely lurid nonsense and features very graphic nudity and gore. The animation looks like the worst possible cel shaded PS2 game. It's so absurd that it is honestly worth a hate watch. The second attempt at a Serbian animated film was a little more admirable and well put together. It's called Technotise: Edit and I. This one was actually in Serbian and takes place in Belgrade in the year 2074. It is essentially an attempt at making an anime, a Serbian version of Akira essentially (Katsuhiro Otomo is even mentioned in the film), with some Ghost In The Shell sprinkled in. This again, sounds very interesting, the animation is mostly 2D, with some CG backgrounds, but most of the actual animation is this extremely uncanny digital 2D puppetry which does not fit at all with the fairly realistic drawing style and it clashes real hard with the bits of actual traditional animation. Also most of the shots are drawn in a completely flat one point perspective so it looks really dull, the editing is quite strange too. The story has potential and some ok elements but the dialogue is extremely cringy with so much unnecessary swearing and awkward lines, though this is most appearent when watching in Serbian, for English speakers, I'd compare it to if an entire movie sounded like 4chan posts or TikTok language.

  • @historiaestmagistravitae.7051

    @historiaestmagistravitae.7051

    4 ай бұрын

    Technotise: Edit and I was a great movie and I'm glad you mentioned that example, even though it was produced with Japanese animators. Independently, Serbian animation did not succeed as well as Croatian (though unfortunately Croatian also failed badly, especially after Hlapić). Apart from the example you gave, I can only remember Jet Set and Serbian folk tales in two episodes, although there is an animated cartoon about Mihajlo Pupin, the famous Serbian scientist.

  • @tvsonicserbia5140

    @tvsonicserbia5140

    4 ай бұрын

    @@historiaestmagistravitae.7051 Technotise wasn't produced with Japanese animators, it was made by a very small team of people in Belgrade. Aside from those domestic productions. Serbian studios have worked on a few international productions as outsourcing, most notably on Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV.

  • @mmiilleennkkoo

    @mmiilleennkkoo

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you ❤❤❤

  • @Thot_Patrol_USA

    @Thot_Patrol_USA

    4 ай бұрын

    from what you’re telling me it’s as if post yugo the animation industry there has downgraded

  • @vladimirbmp

    @vladimirbmp

    4 ай бұрын

    Great summary! I wouldn't agree about Technotise though, I think your critique is unnecessarily harsh. Maybe I'm nostalgic since the movie came out when I was just the perfect audience for it (a sci-fi loving nerdy teen), but I did re-watch it a few years ago and I thought it was actually really good? The dialogue is too edgy and a bit cringy at times, I'll give you that, and they sure did cut corners in the in-between frames department, but the overal aesthetics are really good (Aleksa Gajić is an excellent illustrator) - I definitely wouldn't call it 'extremely uncanny.' It's a solid film, and I think it deserves the 7.4 on IMDB and 77% on Rotten Tomatoes. :)

  • @surrealkit4843
    @surrealkit48434 ай бұрын

    I did not know anything about Yugoslavian animation before this video. It was fascinating and I will definitely look up more.

  • @styleissubstance
    @styleissubstance4 ай бұрын

    I'm glad this channel exists. 😊

  • @ingridfong-daley5899
    @ingridfong-daley58994 ай бұрын

    I see some DePatie/Freleng Pink Panther in a lot of these... what a fabulous find! Thank you for such a fascinating upload; very inspirational!!

  • @DanijeI
    @DanijeI3 ай бұрын

    Props to you 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 That was very interesting to watch.

  • @ArttuTheCat
    @ArttuTheCat4 ай бұрын

    This channel is so retrospectively awesome, you deserve a new subscriber from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮. 😺👍

  • @insetoaquatico
    @insetoaquatico4 ай бұрын

    Amazing video!!

  • @mikebysonart
    @mikebysonart3 ай бұрын

    Great work!

  • @SilvrDragon52
    @SilvrDragon523 ай бұрын

    This was fantastic. I want to watch all of these, I'll have to come back and get the titles again!

  • @28Nina28
    @28Nina283 ай бұрын

    thanks! now i want to watch all of them

  • @nulno
    @nulno4 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this video 👍

  • @stjepanbaricevic-iv4qk
    @stjepanbaricevic-iv4qk4 ай бұрын

    This is like a Yugoslavian version of Disney's Fantasia❤

  • @Sarah-jd7zv
    @Sarah-jd7zv4 ай бұрын

    Just catching up on all these videos I missed recently, so well researched and really really amazing man! You should be proud

  • @kubricklynch

    @kubricklynch

    4 ай бұрын

    Thanks a ton!

  • @waregas
    @waregas25 күн бұрын

    Thank you! Very interesting video

  • @coldghost86
    @coldghost862 ай бұрын

    Hi I just discovered your channel. It’s exactly what I am was looking for!

  • @Poetboyy
    @Poetboyy3 ай бұрын

    I love animation but I have a lot to explore. I love that your videos cover new territories of cinema to discover. Keep up the great work!

  • @kubricklynch

    @kubricklynch

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @watermelon5521
    @watermelon55214 ай бұрын

    Finally someone who brings attention to this!!! Glad to see this. You did a great job!

  • @kubricklynch

    @kubricklynch

    4 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @tapinewoods3937
    @tapinewoods39374 ай бұрын

    One of the Yugoslavian animations that I saw when I was a kid in the earlier 2010's was "Cudesna suma". I loved that movie and forgot about it for so many years. Thanks, man, for reminding me of it.

  • @Queen_Cnidarian
    @Queen_Cnidarian3 ай бұрын

    I had no idea yugoslavian animation was in a thing before this. Will definitely check out the stuff showed here. Thanks!

  • @anhalt1444
    @anhalt14444 ай бұрын

    Finnaly. I am glad to see someone covering my countries animation history.

  • @fungo6631
    @fungo66314 ай бұрын

    The most important part of Yugoslav animation is that its popularity and impressiveness among the general public came crashing down in 1978 when RAI started airing Grendizer in Italy. Anyone who could receive Italian TV (aka most of the coast) tossed Baltazar immediately, once they saw giant-ass robots. Once private TV stations started broadcasting in Italy, the floodgates for anime opened. By 1984 RAI quit airing anime, but all that anime was then rerun on private TV stations. And for those who wanted darker themes, there was Tiger Mask and Hokuto no Ken. Needless to say, landlubbers from the mainland were quite jealous over their coastal counterparts with access to Italian TV.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    4 ай бұрын

    I'm sure those living around Koper, Slovenia had it pretty lucky if they got to see the Italian stations near their town.

  • @tvsonicserbia5140

    @tvsonicserbia5140

    3 ай бұрын

    To be fair, while Baltazar is a TV show too, anime shows were a completely different market to most of these. Most of these are theatrical shorts meant primarily for festivals (maybe shown before some Zagreb film feature films??), not for television.

  • @OldHoTrollin
    @OldHoTrollin3 ай бұрын

    This is amazing

  • @samuil_maxim
    @samuil_maxim4 ай бұрын

    Very good...!!!! Thank you for summoning this...!!!!

  • @beeswillinherittheearth5084
    @beeswillinherittheearth50844 ай бұрын

    Omg it’s Worker and Parasite! Apparently it’s called Vau-Vau I didn’t know that was real

  • @user-lj8bw6fm9d
    @user-lj8bw6fm9d4 ай бұрын

    Amazin video, thank you so much! I'd like to make a revew also of the Bulgarian animation

  • @tompanoname3579
    @tompanoname35793 ай бұрын

    Great! Greets from Zagreb!

  • @user-ks8ny7bi6g
    @user-ks8ny7bi6g4 ай бұрын

    You can listen to the whole Professor Balhazar soundtrack here kzread.info/dash/bejne/jIp3ks6GkcLKZaw.html and The Zagreb School of Animated Film kzread.info/dash/bejne/g4ed2dqRhZbNo7Q.html Tomislav Simovic composed both Professor Balthazar and did soundtracks for quite a few Zagreb film animated films. Both were released recently by Fox & His Friends Records recently and are available on vinyl and all streaming platforms.

  • @BorderlineMusic

    @BorderlineMusic

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this. The member of Zagreb School was also Tomislav Simovic and many other composers.

  • @noheroespublishing1907
    @noheroespublishing19074 ай бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @Saulgud23
    @Saulgud233 ай бұрын

    My parents grew up watching Professor Balthazar, and I'm so glad somebody talked about this part of Yugoslav cinema. I also wish more people knew about the amazing movies outside of animation, like the ones by Kusturica, Makavejev, Paskaljević, Šijan, Kovačević...

  • @DreamsinFrames1899
    @DreamsinFrames18993 ай бұрын

    Great video. From Macedonia. Former Yugoslavia. Such a nostalgia😊

  • @ocudagledam
    @ocudagledam3 ай бұрын

    This is very interesting. So many of these animated films are more an extension of visual art then film/drama/entertainment.

  • @coreaflame
    @coreaflame4 ай бұрын

    THANK YOU FOR THIS ! ive recently fallen in love with Baltazar as someone who lives where Yugoslavia used 2 be and the coloring style of the cartoon is taking over my coloring style so all my art is like vibrant and shit and im glad to have gotten to know more about this animation era and have even more inspo now :D

  • @Lucidarius
    @Lucidarius3 ай бұрын

    Beautifuly done

  • @Leaminiatures
    @Leaminiatures3 ай бұрын

    I never thought i would hear Miki Muster's name outside of slovenian media but its really cool that you mentioned him:)

  • @Nuclear_Child.X
    @Nuclear_Child.X3 ай бұрын

    Thanks of this. I'm huge fan of Zagreb and Praga anime schools (legendary A je to and Lolek&Bolek from Praga anime school are out of this world funny, pure joy). Many of their masterpieces shaped my childhood and teenage age. Zagreb school is one of best and most unique anime schools in world, I find it brilliant. Also most "arthouse" imho, in comparison to other influential anime schools in World. I wasn't following it since too many years, but you encouraged me to do so. Thank you, and Happy new Year. P.S. Thanks for mentioning dr. Balthasar, I love this anime endlessly. Just to mention that also Hungarians and Italians back in 70ies- 1990s produced really interesting and magnigicent anime masterpieces worthy of attention. Waiting for part 3.

  • @dj-um7el
    @dj-um7el4 ай бұрын

    Love how this popped up after I woke up!!!

  • @jimeatscorn6628
    @jimeatscorn66284 ай бұрын

    Thank you, recommended.

  • @Kanaya_Maryam
    @Kanaya_Maryam4 ай бұрын

    Man I Remember Watching Most Of These As A Kid. Thanks For Discussing About Yugoslavian Animation.

  • @usefulaccount1835

    @usefulaccount1835

    4 ай бұрын

    Which network did the cartoons aired?

  • @barrymoore4470
    @barrymoore44703 ай бұрын

    What an exciting, broad introduction to this rich heritage of animation! Many names and titles here were new to me, and I appreciated how you made mention also of animation produced in centers other than Zagreb. Animation and shorts unfortunately tend to be overlooked in film histories, but focusing on these forms makes clear that Yugoslavia was one of the most vibrant and creative crucibles of cinema in the second half of the twentieth century. Indeed, I think the only other country that rivaled it in the arena of animated shorts during that period was Canada, and in both instances strong state investment in the art coupled with considerable creative license for the artists was foundational for these successes. While Yugoslav production was exemplary in so many ways, Eastern European animation in general constitutes a wonderful cultural heritage, and I would welcome further explorations in those national cinemas I don't believe have yet received their own episodes here, such as Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria.

  • @Cdefgahc2
    @Cdefgahc23 ай бұрын

    Holy shit you just brought back my childhood

  • @ashleychristensen2442
    @ashleychristensen24423 ай бұрын

    Thanks, cool stuff

  • @_diamond_sky_
    @_diamond_sky_3 ай бұрын

    Finally someone speaking about us.

  • @user-jj6lk6gj2w
    @user-jj6lk6gj2w4 ай бұрын

    It would be great to cover the Romanian animation. Their cartoons about Mouseketeers are very popular in Russia, so I would like to know more about the cartoons of this country.

  • @TN_hellbilly
    @TN_hellbilly4 ай бұрын

    Thanks, this has been a quiet intresting video! I've been curious the last 5 years or so of what none American cartoons were like. I wish it was easier to find.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    4 ай бұрын

    American cartoons have gotten worse. It's why we like to see how our neighbors do now.

  • @tvscreen8397
    @tvscreen83974 ай бұрын

    Great video

  • @youdontknowme3935
    @youdontknowme39353 ай бұрын

    great stuff

  • @amaneapalategi5296
    @amaneapalategi52963 ай бұрын

    Yugoslavian animated film directors in the 60´s were really like "So I was thinking of this movie which would be an allegory for war and about how oppressive our modern society is"

  • @ChristopherSobieniak

    @ChristopherSobieniak

    3 ай бұрын

    Being next door to the Soviet Bloc probably gave them reason to make these statements.

  • @cedar4539
    @cedar45394 ай бұрын

    thank you

  • @jahempress26
    @jahempress264 ай бұрын

    Wow I didn't know this ,really unexpected really 😳 out of all places

  • @BrandonFishback
    @BrandonFishback4 ай бұрын

    I'm really good I found this channel. I've never seen these histories.

  • @sofijadjuric9170
    @sofijadjuric91703 ай бұрын

    Side note: your pronunciation of Yugoslavian names is amazing

  • @brajanivziku
    @brajanivziku4 ай бұрын

    Thank you @Kubricklynch for this video ! I grew up in Albania (and partially in Kosovo) and I've seen some of them. However, most post-Yugoslovian war cartoons came from Russia (such as Nu Pogodi). I'd love to see 'A Beginner's Guide to Czhekoslovakian Animation' next time. ❤

  • @kubricklynch

    @kubricklynch

    4 ай бұрын

    Yup I think Czechoslovakia will be next!

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