>>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.

>>3
Well, you're free to send me a private message to me through the site any time with suggestions! I might even have subtitles for them already. There are still a lot of films I have subtitles for that aren't on the site yet because I try to check the translation for accuracy before I add anything.

I made Russian subtitles for "The Blue Planet", and will start on the English translation, but it may take a while because it uses "high style" poetry (just like this one). I'm not yet sure how long it will take!

I've seen "Fantastic Planet" and while I really like that film (despite an ending that feels too shallow and naive to me), I don't think there's much similarity with "The Blue Planet". Aside from both being widescreen animated sci-fi that's not very American...

>>2
If you want more suggestions please let me know.

>>1
Thanks for the suggestions! I've added the Shukalyukov (although I wish the video was better quality). I'll try and get to "The Blue Planet" soon. I'd actually come across it before when going through Kazakhfilm's back catalogue, and had put it off for later. Its aspect ratio is wrong on Youtube, but that's easy enough to fix.