Which animated tales from your childhood were most unforgettable?
I’ve recently discovered that my favorite animated tales from childhood in the 70’s and 80’s are in Youtube. The Happy Prince and the Selfish Giant are two of them.
Just saw The Happy Prince again and it was a sweet blast from the past. The animation is old but that is what makes it even more precious.
It brought out that 6 year old many many years ago, watching this poignant tale unfold, enthralled by the music, the narrator’s voice and the Swallow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Aank8bDtcE
If you have any beloved animated tales from when you were a kid and it’s streaming on the net, please share it-? Thanks.
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The ugly duckling. It reminds me of my childhood. Sadness.
Star Trek, the animated series. Featured all the original actor voices… nearly two seasons. The story lines were very adult, as good or better than the original series. Watching it again on Netflix now. I’m amazed they marketed this level of SciFi to sleepy Saturday morning children. Some of the episodes were carry overs from the original series.
I loved the Oscar Wilde ones that you mentioned. Probably the most memorable from my childhood was Watership Down, because it seemed like such an adult film. No Disney treatment there. I found it very disturbing.
I also loved any of Raymond Briggs’ animated stories. The Snowman would have been my favourite then, but I also love The Bear and When the Wind Blows, for example.
@RealEyesRealizeRealLies Totally agree on the Star Trek cartoon. That was great stuff.
Galaxy Rangers, Watership Down, and Simon come to mind.
I’m so common and traditional.
My three favorite shows were TMNT (the original), He-Man, and Dinoriders, but to be fair, I don’t know if they are streaming on the net\netflix.
fantasia & Nemo & Smurfs, Looney Tunes, Thundercats, HeMan, GIJoe.
This, of course. Many here should have guessed mine.
Hear me??.
Does it still count if I was 32 at the time it was released?
Oh, and for shorts, we lived for this, and these.
Good times.
Batman the Animated series.
This was the first cartoon I watched that had such an adult theme.
No slapstick, no straightforward badguy-vs-goodguy scenario, no simple story structure. I was totally taken aback by everything it had to bring me: the plot, the graphics, the feel… Never expected something so dark and moody in a superhero cartoon.
The cartoon was the only reason I came to love Batman.
There have been more superhero cartoons made, but to me none has matched Batman the Animated series.
May as well consider it the unofficially first film-noir I’ve watched too :p
I was a kid in the 60’s and early 70’s. It was Disney all the way.
Bambi, Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Sleeping Beauty, on and on. Not to mention all the non-animated Disney flicks, Old Yeller, Where the red fern grows, Daniel Boone, Chitty Chitty Bang bang, Mary Poppins, Thomasina, Sound of Music, Swiss Family Robinson, The Parent Trap, on and on.
All the old Disney originals and then, my daughter who was born in 1987 was the turnkey of a whole new generation of Disney. Little Mermaid, Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, etc.
I still love Disney movies, I just watched “Tangled” and “El Dorado” and “The Princess Frog” recently. One of my newer all time favs. is “Spirit”. The wild horse flick.
Disney rocks! 75 years and counting. :-)
AAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWW! My eyes!
@Coloma mentioned Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
Bugs Bunny was supreme. Everything else 2nd-rate in my eyes.
@jaytkay Bugs was good but…the Roadrunner & Coyote were the best!
@Mimishu1995 I LOVED Batman TAS. It’s a shame that series got pretty shitty in the end with the redesign and all. just another reason to hate superman. If you haven’t watched it I suggest checking out the 90’s Spiderman series. While I’d consider the first Batman TAS far better than Spidey, I think Spiderman was a more consistently good show from start to finish.
I second Coloma’s post and add The Jungle Book, Fritz the Cat , Woody the Woodpecker and all the Loony Tunes which also included Bugs, Daffy, Porky and Elmer and the insane Roadrunner shorts. Walter Lanz, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and Mel Blanc rocked the House every Saturday morning when I was a kid. But my favorite by far was Roadrunner.
Popeye
Pink Panther
Schoolhouse Rock
I was raised in the Simpson family, and learned my countries, presidents and state capitals from the Animaniacs, but “The Secret of NIMH” was the most profoundly moving single animated work I saw as a child.
Okay, maybe I shouldn’t have posted links only.
The Lorax By Dr Seuss
Dr. Seuss Horton Hears A Who
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Fractured Fairy Tales
The Ant and the Aardvark
Oooh..The Fox & the Hound, yes, and Jungle Book that @Espiritus_Corvus mentioned.
I also love “Up”!
The Taz. The old one. And Yosimite Sam.
@Winter_Pariah Have you seen My Neighbor Totoro, Wings of Honnemise. Graveyard of the Fireflies and Kiki’s Delivery Service yet-? I highly recommend those. :)
@Pachy :: Mom likes to tell the story of her taking me to see Fantasia in the theater when I was about five. Apparently It scared the shit out of me and I screamed until we had to leave the theater.
@mazingerz88 My Neighbor Totoro
Off-topic useless scary fact: There is a creepy theory of that movie floating around the internet. Basically it claims that the movie is based on a real murder happening in Japan and uses various symbolist details to recreate the murder. In short, My Neighbor Totoro contains a murder story hidden in plain sight!
The Adventures of Gumby and Pokey are classics. I still have my Gumby somewhere.
Sometimes Gumby talks to my grandson on Zoom. Gumby holds a little cup and drinks water when they talk.
Gumby might even stick his head into the conversation when I’m talking!
@Mimishu1995 I get to see the 1998 series Cowboy Beebop during the pandemic last year and it is now my top anime series favorite.
Oh I just thought of two more.
Astroboy It takes place in the distant future of 2000A.D.
And Speed Racer. for some odd reason that theme song poops into my head every now and then.
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