I've added subtitles for Italian and Arabic, and hopefully there aren't too many mistakes. The song "Antoshka" has also been translated into Croatian, Turkish and German (however, the 2nd verse of the German translation would need to be retranslated; it prioritizes the rhyme and does not mention an accordion, which wouldn't work as a translation for the cartoon).

I understand now why there existed no decent English translation of this one for so long! It was really difficult. So much of the Russian text uses turns of phrase that have no direct English equivalents. If the translation nevertheless seems like it flows smoothly to people, I will be glad.

>>3
It wasn't "Magia Russica", was it?

>>2
I think I might have confused this with a different documentary. I distinctly remember a bit where Yuri Norstein is talking about how Roman Kachanov complicates the emotions in every scene. Any idea what that might be from? I've been looking for it forever..

>>6
Thanks!

>>1
>Another noteworthy Soviet sci-fi animation is ''The Blue Planet'' (Russian title: Голубая планета, 1971)
Finally translated this one! Unfortunately, it has been uploaded to Youtube in a very incorrect aspect ratio and I had to fix it here with some trickery, but the tradeoff is that you get black bars on all sides.

>>1
Are you sure? I was the one who did the subtitles for this one, originally in 2007. I think I started on the second one, but never did finish it, and I never saw any of the others subtitled online.

You don't remember where it may have been, so you?

I remember finding this online before with subtitles for the whole thing. If there's an English translation for the other parts, I'd be happy to do some syncing! Unfortunately I don't know Russian, so I can't help translate, but I would really love to be able to watch the rest of this documentary again.

It's not very clear to me what anniversary this film was made for. Various articles say that it was for the "100 year anniversary of animation", but nothing notable happened in animation in 1883 other than the birth of American animation pioneer Max Fleischer, which would not be considered very important in the USSR. Conceivably it was for the 70th anniversary of Ladislas Starevich's films (1912-1913), but the film never even mentions them (probably because it wasn't the Soviet Union at the time, and Starevich fled the communists to live the rest of his life in France). Or for the first Soviet animation in 1923 by Dziga Vertov (which doesn't survive), but again, not mentioned in the film. Nothing notable happened in 1933.

Or perhaps it was for the 75th anniversary of Emile Cohl's Fantasmagorie (1908), often considered to be the first animation on celluloid film, or at least the first 2D animation where each image replaces the one before it, rather than stop motion. It's not mentioned in the film either, but this may just be because they didn't have a copy of it.

>>4
I'll definitely PM you with suggestions. The website is doing great work in making Soviet and Russian animation accessible to the world.

I also forgot to thank you for making subs for ''He Flew In Only Once''. Good job on that one.

When I was comparing ''The Blue Planet'' to ''Fantastic Planet'' I was talking about the surrealness of both films, even though they respectively use different animation styles: the former employs traditional animation while the latter uses cutout stop-motion. It's always refreshing to see non-US animation as they're different and sometimes thought-provoking.

As you can probably tell, science fiction is my favourite genre.