I saw an excellent program at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco this morning that included the following cartoons:
Baby Dreams – At the Airport
The Eagle’s Feather
Beach
Fantadroms – Rainbow
Leopold’s Television
Three Russian Shorts: Mosaic, Scatter Giovanni, Rout
Baby Dreams – The Auto Factory
Fantadroms – Ice Cream
Russian Winnie the Pooh
Hedgehog in the Fog
The Disobedient Kitten
Skatampanti: Looking-Rhymes
Most were great, some were excellent. Except for one that took Silly Symphonies head on, they were quite different from American (and Japanese) animation in terms of story; wildly different and surreal, most of these without dialogue. There's at least one episode of Fantadroms on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQeJMhm4mcM
It wasn't one of the ones that played at the theater, but I'm sure it's good as well. I am looking for more of them if available, but am especially looking for more of the Baby Dreams series. This DVD:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Bulgarian-Animation-Nadejda-Iantcheva/dp/B00004S897/
has them on it and so I'd recommend it to anyone here. But it only has those same 2 from Baby Dreams. Anybody have any leads on more?
― J.P. McDevitt, Sunday, 13 March 2016 08:45 (eight years ago) link