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September 24, 2011 7:04 PM Subscribe
This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like we've seen this a couple times already. -- cortex
Vinni Pux is beautiful. I wish more people would seek out Soviet-era animation. There was some gorgeous work done.
posted by overeducated_alligator at 7:07 PM on September 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by overeducated_alligator at 7:07 PM on September 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
Only 1/3 of a double -- this has two more videos (though one is in the comments).
posted by filthy light thief at 7:10 PM on September 24, 2011
posted by filthy light thief at 7:10 PM on September 24, 2011
ouch...a triple, and I did one of them..thought it looked familiar.
posted by HuronBob at 7:11 PM on September 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by HuronBob at 7:11 PM on September 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
Wait, is this an actual 1969 cartoon? I thought it was a hoax given the terseness of the post.
posted by LSK at 7:17 PM on September 24, 2011
posted by LSK at 7:17 PM on September 24, 2011
(Still, it's a thousand percent awesomer than the Disney version.)
posted by Sys Rq at 7:19 PM on September 24, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by Sys Rq at 7:19 PM on September 24, 2011 [3 favorites]
According to the Wikipedia page about Soyuzmultfilm, the studio which produced this film:
One early misfortune happened when the Russian courts transferred the studio's puppet division building (in a legal decision involving many other buildings) to the Russian Orthodox Church. Before the animators could react to this turn of events, an Orthodox Cossack squadron, accompanied by religious locals, broke into the building with swords unsheathed for the purpose of exorcism and began throwing out the "satanic puppets animated with the blood of Christian babies".[2] No studio employees were allowed to come in and salvage any item, despite the presence of much expensive equipment and a whole library of puppets. [4]
WHAT?!
posted by overeducated_alligator at 7:19 PM on September 24, 2011
One early misfortune happened when the Russian courts transferred the studio's puppet division building (in a legal decision involving many other buildings) to the Russian Orthodox Church. Before the animators could react to this turn of events, an Orthodox Cossack squadron, accompanied by religious locals, broke into the building with swords unsheathed for the purpose of exorcism and began throwing out the "satanic puppets animated with the blood of Christian babies".[2] No studio employees were allowed to come in and salvage any item, despite the presence of much expensive equipment and a whole library of puppets. [4]
WHAT?!
posted by overeducated_alligator at 7:19 PM on September 24, 2011
"WHAT?!"
In Russia, Pooh Winnies you!
posted by HuronBob at 7:49 PM on September 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
In Russia, Pooh Winnies you!
posted by HuronBob at 7:49 PM on September 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
In Soviet Russia, honey eats you.
posted by bicyclefish at 7:51 PM on September 24, 2011
posted by bicyclefish at 7:51 PM on September 24, 2011
In Soviet Russia, post previews you.
posted by bicyclefish at 7:52 PM on September 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by bicyclefish at 7:52 PM on September 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
Interesting in that, in the early days of MetaFilter, it took nothing more than some strange web site about cat-scans to make an FPP, now-a-days an FPP about an obscure Russian cartoon has been posted 4 times...
In about 5 years, when MF has 2.5 million members (hmmm 2.5 million * $5... yeah!) There'll be nothing left to post.
posted by HuronBob at 7:55 PM on September 24, 2011
In about 5 years, when MF has 2.5 million members (hmmm 2.5 million * $5... yeah!) There'll be nothing left to post.
posted by HuronBob at 7:55 PM on September 24, 2011
In about 5 years [...] There'll be nothing left to post.
We'll always have cats and pop music.
posted by Edogy at 7:57 PM on September 24, 2011
We'll always have cats and pop music.
posted by Edogy at 7:57 PM on September 24, 2011
this is really bizarre as i just posted the same thing on my blog this morning and now i feel weirdly stalked by russian internets randomness.
*hides under bed*
posted by elizardbits at 8:04 PM on September 24, 2011
*hides under bed*
posted by elizardbits at 8:04 PM on September 24, 2011
*silently opens closet door and takes single step out until floorboard creaks, then pauses - foot hovering in mid tiptoe, long serrated knife clenched firmly in teeth*
posted by nathancaswell at 8:08 PM on September 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by nathancaswell at 8:08 PM on September 24, 2011 [1 favorite]
In about 5 years [...] There'll be nothing left to post.
No, because there are infinitely many refinements on any previous post.
For example, the essay A Bourgeois Writer's Proletarian Fables, which appears in its entirety as a Google Books preview, has never been examined here, though it points out that dialectical materialism, scientific socialism, the spirit of the Commune, and the necessity of revolution are all urged upon us by the Winnie the Pooh stories.
Warning: Some people don't take this essay seriously.
posted by twoleftfeet at 8:27 PM on September 24, 2011
No, because there are infinitely many refinements on any previous post.
For example, the essay A Bourgeois Writer's Proletarian Fables, which appears in its entirety as a Google Books preview, has never been examined here, though it points out that dialectical materialism, scientific socialism, the spirit of the Commune, and the necessity of revolution are all urged upon us by the Winnie the Pooh stories.
Warning: Some people don't take this essay seriously.
posted by twoleftfeet at 8:27 PM on September 24, 2011
> Kind of almost but not really a quadruple.
My post didn't really have to do with Winnie the Pooh. I appreciate having this stuff posted from time to time, because Russian YouTube links are very prone to link-rot these days. That's the primary reason why I'm very scrupulous about posting both Russian and translated titles.
For example, most of the YT videos I linked to in that FPP are already down — thanks to a slew of spurious claims by "Funtik Entertainment." Here is Russian animation blogger Niffiwan on this issue. Basically, if you want to follow links to Russian/Soviet cartoons, be prepared to have to search out the content again. It gets reposted, but no one video stays up very long. This is especially unfortunate for viewers who have to rely on subtitles because they don't understand Russian — most of the subtitled versions are fan-translated, and good translations are hard to come by a second time.
posted by Nomyte at 8:36 PM on September 24, 2011 [2 favorites]
My post didn't really have to do with Winnie the Pooh. I appreciate having this stuff posted from time to time, because Russian YouTube links are very prone to link-rot these days. That's the primary reason why I'm very scrupulous about posting both Russian and translated titles.
For example, most of the YT videos I linked to in that FPP are already down — thanks to a slew of spurious claims by "Funtik Entertainment." Here is Russian animation blogger Niffiwan on this issue. Basically, if you want to follow links to Russian/Soviet cartoons, be prepared to have to search out the content again. It gets reposted, but no one video stays up very long. This is especially unfortunate for viewers who have to rely on subtitles because they don't understand Russian — most of the subtitled versions are fan-translated, and good translations are hard to come by a second time.
posted by Nomyte at 8:36 PM on September 24, 2011 [2 favorites]
Yes, Vinni Puh! I did a paper on this adaptation versus the American in graduate school. It's interesting that this one jettisons Christopher Robin completely.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 8:58 PM on September 24, 2011
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 8:58 PM on September 24, 2011
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