Does anyone here know the original name and/or studio of this neat little film? I really like the look of this film, a bit UPA-inspired, and the musical score's also pretty neat, too bad I don't know who made it, aside from the fact it was one of many foreign 'toons picked up by Flamingo Telefilms for their "Nutty Squirrels" television package .

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I've been slowly identifying a lot of the Flamingo/Fima Noveck/Nutty Squirrels cartoons. No lead on this so far though maybe someone here knows. One thing I've noted is the ones I've identified all seem to lie in the 1958-1961 date range.

So what's the country of origin for most these foreign shorts?

Zagreb Films?

The ones I've identified off the top of my head come from Czechoslovakia, Soviet Russia (easy to recognise from the Disneyesque social realist style!) , at least one from Hungary, plenty of Zagreb, a couple of Geroge Moreno sing-a-longs made in the UK. Probably others as well. I bought quite a few volumes of these from Something Weird Video, I'll dig up my partial list soon.

The ones I've identified off the top of my head come from Czechoslovakia, Soviet Russia (easy to recognise from the Disneyesque social realist style!) , at least one from Hungary, plenty of Zagreb, a couple of Geroge Moreno sing-a-longs made in the UK. Probably others as well. I bought quite a few volumes of these from Something Weird Video, I'll dig up my partial list soon.

Awesome!

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Say, dbear, you ever find that partial list?
PS: Is it just me, or was "The Cow on the Moon" part of the Flamingo package? I saw an image from it on the cover of one of those Something Weird "cartoon rarities" DVDs.

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Hi! Yes I did actually but I’m away from home (and my PC) at the moment. I can upload the list for 4 volumes I purchased off Something Weird as soon as I get back on Thursday. :)

A group effort here (or elsewhere on the internet) would probably fill in the gaps I have if I upload some screenshots onto imgur.

Going by the Something Weird volumes, here's my (very rough) incomplete IDs for Volumes 5, 6 and 8. I also have Volume 10 but they aren't Flamingo cartoons.

SOYUZ=Soyuzmultfilm
KTKY=Kratky Film Praha
ZGRB=Zagreb Film

VOLUME 5
1. To Texas & Back
2. A Horse for Dinner
3. The Zoo Revolution
4. The Bouncing Bassoon - c.1963 Bunty the Bouncing Bassoon Merry Music Shop Moreno
5. One Little Pig
6. A Recipe for Courage
7. Thermometer Has a Fever
8. The Lion Club
9. ABC SOS
10. Millie the Kid
11. Who's Scared - Veliki Strah (ZGRB, 1958)
12. Bear Cub at Large
13. Teamwork
14. Wanderlust
15. The Pole Painters
16. The Cat and the Canary
17. The Drought - SKORO BUDET DOZHD (SOYUZ, 1959)
13. Bullies in a Toy Shop

VOLUME 6
1. Monkey Business - German?
2. The Monkey and the Atom - German?
3. Sticks and Stones - Romeo and Julliet (ZGRB, 1958)
4. Dodo and the Monster
5. The Imp and the Angel
6. Life With Eva - Tucet mych tatinku (KTKY, 1959)
7. A Very Strange Adventure
8. The Brave Mosquito - MUHA-COKOTUHA (SOYUZ, 1960)
9. Dinosaur Hunt
10. The Magic Mirror
11. Tit For Tat - Piccolo (ZGRB, 1959)
12. The Fire Fighters
13. The Racers
14. The Robin and the Bumblebee - c.1963 Merry Music Shop Moreno
15. Round and Round - La création du monde
16. Fire and Ice - La création du monde (French/Czech feature, 1958)
17. What a Boar - La création du monde (French/Czech feature, 1958)
18. The Concertina - Lev a pisnicka (KTKY, 1959)
19. The Great Bank Robbery - Koncert za mašinsku pušku (ZGRB, 1958)

VOLUME 8
The Beggar's Treasure - LEGENDA O ZAVESCHANII MAVRA (SOYUZ, 1959)
Pedro's Secret - LEGENDA O ZAVESCHANII MAVRA (SOYUZ, 1959)
Dog Magician -
Davy Jones Locker -
Stop Thief -
Detective's Nightmare -
Polite Neighbors -
Gone With the Goose -
The Cheese Hunters - PRIKLYUCHENIYA BURATINO (SOYUZ, 1959)
The Wooden Boy - PRIKLYUCHENIYA BURATINO (SOYUZ, 1959)
The Bargain - PRIKLYUCHENIYA BURATINO (SOYUZ, 1959)
The Hold-Up - PRIKLYUCHENIYA BURATINO (SOYUZ, 1959)
The Chimney Sweep -
Storm in a Coop -
The Magic Flute - KOROLEVSKIE ZAJCY (SOYUZ, 1960)
The King and The Shepard - KOROLEVSKIE ZAJCY (SOYUZ, 1960)
A Man, A Lion, and a Donkey -
Eraser and Pencil - Hungraian, 1960
Where There's Smoke There's Fame - Slava, Pojar Czech 1959
The Stable Boy and The Princess - ZOLOTOE PERYSHKO (SOYUZ, 1960)

Thanks! By the way, where can one watch "Eraser and Pencil"? That title's picqued my interest.

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https://videa.hu/videok/...zfilmek-oymUmXZ9ZvCBd5sB 

If you want the Flamingo Fima Noveck version (slightly edited and has added English narration as usual) send me a PM 🙂

Thank you very much for all this information! After all these years, have you managed to identify more cartoons of the series? It would be useful for all of us to have a database like this.

The original version is online here:
https://videa.hu/videok/...zfilmek-oymUmXZ9ZvCBd5sB 

If you want the Flamingo Fima Noveck version (slightly edited and has added English narration as usual) send me a PM :)

Thank you! But the link is broken. Could you inform us about its exact foreign title?

The Magic Mirror was also the title of a book John Culhane was writing--an attempted world history of animation in the 1980s. It was never published, and Culhane passed away not too long ago. I wonder if it would've been ACTUALLY error free.

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17. What a Boar - La création du monde (French/Czech feature, 1958)

How sure are you about this? I don't have the Something Weird DVD in order to check it, but I have a German reissue of a Fima Noveck reissue, called "Langohr und das Wildschwein", that seams to translate this title. That film isn't from "La création du monde". It presents some rabbits, a boar and other animals.