cartoons again

[Curt F. Woolhiser]

Dear Natalie,

I believe that DVDs with animated versions of the Russian fairy tales you
mention can be purchased from RussianDVD.com (I'd also recommend the animated
versions of Pushkin's "Skazka o mertvoj carevne i o semi bogatyrjax" and
"Zolotoj petushok"). As for Ukrainian-language cartoons, I know of several
anthologies distributed by OYKO Ltd. (based in New Jersey). Their "Mul'tfil'my
dlja ditej" (Zbyrnyk No. 2) has a nice mix, including the following:

Bila arena
Pryhody maljuka Hipopo
Shcho tut kojit'sja ishche
Koly padajut' zirky
Nikudyshko
Teplyj xlib
Muzychny kartynky
Pryhody kozaka Eneja (an abridged animated version of Kotljarevs'kyj's Eneida)
Marusja Bohuslavka (based on the kozac'ka duma, sung with bandura accompaniment)

All of these appear to have been produced in Soviet Ukraine, some of them dating
back to the 1960s. There's also a longer, "R-rated" animated version of Eneida,
originally
released in Ukraine in 1991 and now available on DVD.

Best regards,

Curt Woolhiser

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Curt Woolhiser
Preceptor in Slavic Languages
Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
Harvard University
12 Quincy St., Barker Center
Cambridge, MA 02138-3879 USA

Tel. (617) 495-3528
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Quoting nataliek at UALBERTA.CA:
> Dear Fellow List members,
>
> I have some more cartoon questions.  What I would like to know is:
>
> 1) Where can I get good quality copies (preferably DVD) of cartoon on
> classic folktale topics?  What I have in mind is Vaselisa Prikrasnaia,
> Tsarevna liagushka, Sistrisa Alionushka i bratik Ivanushka,
> Molodil'nye Iabloki, Kot kotofeevich, Zmei Gorynishche, Terem teremok,
> and that sort of thing - essentially Afanas'ev in mul'tiki form.  I
> have, courtesy of the nice people on this list, Nazarov's Zhyl byl pes
> and that is the right sort of material.  Is there anything else?
> YouTube is good - which is where I got the dog cartoon.  I'm happy to
> buy DVDs as well.
>
> BTW, I have old and very bad resolution copies of these things.  So
> they exist and I would suspect that someone has made nice digital
> copies by now.
>
> Question 2) Were any cartoons produced in Ukrainian?  Presumably there
> weren't any during the Soviet period.  But what about after?  Did any
> studio start putting about children's material in the Ukrainian
> language?  Again, I have Zhyl byl pes and though it states that it is
> based on a Ukrainian folktale, the language of the cartoon is Russian.
>
> I offer my thanks in anticipation of your help.
>
> Natalie Kononenko
> Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
> University of Alberta
> Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
> 200 Arts Building
> Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
> Phone: 780-492-6810
> Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/
>
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