cartoons again

[Donald Loewen]

There's a series available from JOVE films, 4 DVDs that includes a lot 
of cartoons from various eras; it has "Pes," "Ezhik v tumane," and quite 
a few of the other classics.  The one thing to note, though, is that 
they all have English subtitles that can't be turned off.  Then there's 
a large variety available through places like russiandvd.com, where you 
can get Vasilisa, Tsar Sultan, and many more, as well as the more 
contemporary ones (e.g. Neznaika). Concerning Ukrainian language: I 
can't remember right now, but there was a whole series of "Kazaki" 
cartoons put out by the Kiev studio in the 70's and 80's, I think.  
There was almost no dialogue in them, but it's possible that when there 
was some speech, it was indeed in Ukrainian.  There was writing in the 
background for some of the scenes, and that was Ukrainian at times. 
All the best,
Don Loewen

nataliek at UALBERTA.CA wrote:
> 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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Donald Loewen
Associate Professor of Russian
Dept. of German, Russian and East Asian Languages
Binghamton University (SUNY) 
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

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