This is Part 2 of an overview of the Russian/Soviet holiday-themed animated films that are currently available to be watched with English subtitles (or wordless) on Animatsiya.net, listed from earliest to latest. Each film will have a description, as well as a summary of what's good about it (why you may enjoy watching it), and what's bad about it ( Read more... )

This is an overview of the Russian holiday-themed animated films that are currently available to be watched with English subtitles (or wordless) on Animatsiya.net, listed from earliest to latest. Each film will have a description, as well as a summary of what's good about it (why you may enjoy watching it), and what's bad about it (why you may not ( Read more... )

Here's a little overview of the filmography of Yuriy Norshteyn (also spelled Yuri Norstein), including some new discoveries. Norshteyn is famous for having made some great animated films in the 1970s, then starting a very ambitious animated feature project, being kicked out of his studio space, and trying to finish it (on and off) for these last 40 ( Read more... )

At least one higher education institution is helping to translate Russian animation. To quote from the channel description of UCSantaCruzRussian:
Under the supervision of Professor Bill Nickell, students at the University of California, Santa Cruz have been transcribing, translating, and subtitling Russian-language animation recorded off of Russian ( Read more... )

Another film that I translated, aided by julia2night in a few spots.

"Shareholders" is an ambitious ideological satire directed by Roman Davydov in 1963 (Davydov is best known for directing a feature-length adaptation of Kipling's "Jungle Book" in the 1970s). A certain amount of ideological cartoons like this were always being made, though it was ( Read more... )

I've been busy for the past few months and haven't had the time to post about the latest translations of Russian animation here (though I remind my readers, you can always go here; the wiki article gets updated first ( Read more... )

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...who has a blog about his subtitling endeavors over here, with links to the original subtitle files.

Translated on Dec. 23, 2009:

"Two Merry Ganders" (1970), a fun, very early film by the director Leonid Nosyrev (click on the "nosyrev" tag below this post to see his other films that I've written about & translated).

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Translated on Jan. 5, 2010 ( Read more... )

The 1964 Thumbelina (Duymovochka), directed by Leonid Amalrik at Soyuzmultfilm studio, is a beloved adaptation of the story by Hans Christian Andersen. I've been working on English subtitles to it for quite a while, and finally finished the translation a bit over a month ago. The film is 30 minutes long. It's one of the classics of Soviet animation ( Read more... )

julia2night has made subtitles for the first four episodes of the most famous Soviet-era animation series, "Nu, pogodi!". The films (of which 20 have been made since 1969, the last two just 4-5 years ago by the original director's son) are actually nearly wordless if you don't count the songs. You really only need to know that volk means "wolf", ( Read more... )