I didn't even realize fantastic planet was Czechoslovakian I thought it was French for the longest time great film though has an incredible soundtrack and is super underrated in general

Good fucking job pronouncing those names, kudos.

Czech has an amazing gun industry, extreme metal music, car industry and now i get to learn about their animated movie culture. Sadly Czech is always unspoken of in any of these categories. A truly underrated country.

Your channel is a goldmine, love these video essays on obscure animation topics. Just a quick thing, but from what I understand, The Artist's Dream wasn't actually made with cels? idk, there's a bit of a debate going on in the animation community over that.

not only animations, but also czechoslovakian movies were world's top in 70's and 80's. in one sci fi movie, there was selfie stick. I killed Einstein gentlemen...

i remember watching multiple of those when I was a child

I never knew the holy grail by monty python was a parody

Thank you so much for all of these recent videos about animation and well done on your execution! I have been going down the rabbit hole of the history of animation and I didn't realize how vast it is. I would really appreciate if you could continue to make more videos about this topic! Also more videos about what you have been watching would be great too.

9:00 Gotta like Gene Deitch. *ESPECIALLY* the Tom and Jerrys. 👍🏽👍🏽

fantastic planet's style is so beautiful and haunting, every frame could be a painting in its own rights.... gosh, Čarodějův učeň.. i rememeber being so scared of that film as a child. I'm glad i can appreciate it now, it really is a wonderful piece of animation. despite being czech, i didn't recognise some of these films and shorts, so thank you for introducing me :]

Fantastic planet predicted megamind

Being czech on the internet in recent times has been interesting. Like half the stuff i would watch as a kid was presented by random people i've never heard of as this crazy "eastern european rare impossible lost media" and the other half was regarded as something extraterrestrial.

I remember seeing an animation of a tiger cub that was chased and put in a cage by wolves. Does anybody know what it was called?

BTW, I am surprised that Krtek also didn't face some bigger censoreship, because some episodes were literally showing destroying of our nature by commies, building giant housing estates, creating giant waste dumps and animals beying shocked by that and fighting against people. This theme is in more Czechoslovak movies. But it's possible that these episodes or movies were actually banned and started beying showed after 1989.

15:10 HELL YEAH! PAT & MAT IS HERE, THE CLASSIC! (I remember watching this on some DVD/VCD i bought when i was a kid, the show is also popular in my country, Poland)

If you want to watch Jan Švankmajer's movies, it's recommended to have at least 3 beers or smoke something. 😀

Fantastic planet is SO lame, You guys are full caping

They couldn't wait to implement the heliocentric model into peoples minds.

Yooo, I remember watching these as a child, we had a lot of channels which premiered old cartoons and old movies in czech dub on cable. Brings back a lot of memories, tbh. Edit: YO I FORGOT ABOUT THE "No počkaj!" CARTOON, THAT SHIT BUILT MY WHOLE CHILDHOOD

Amazing video! Can't wait for the next part covering the 80's! Also I hope you do one about Argentinian animation (you can watch the film "Anima Buenos Aires ").

I remember watching The Little Mole when I was a child in the 80s. The Little Mole was featured on the children's show Die Sendung mit der Maus on West German TV. I liked The Little Mole for its expressiveness that didn't need words to convey the story. Come to think of it, the short interludes where the animated characters Mouse and Elephant did something funny didn't use words to convey their stories either. I miss these simple yet highly entertaining narrations.

Your description of 'Pat a Mat' made me so happy. It's so accurate and heart warming for someone who grew up watching them

Thank you for sharing Czechoslovak content! Great video! Cheers from Slovakia :D

This is marvelous, but it's Saul Steinberg he was imitating, not Ralph Steadman. I'm guessing someone's pointed this out already. But this was very well done, and thank you for doing it.

Pojďte pane, budeme si hrát 💖

Another terrific video. The Mole was very popular here in Britain in the Seventies. I also have very fond memories of Zeman’s Sinbad, shown twice by the BBC at the end of the decade, especially the wonderfully creepy episode where our hero is forced to carry a demonic looking man piggyback style and can’t shift him. The singer and actor Paul Jones (formerly of Manfred Mann) provided the English narration. I’d love for this to get a blu-ray release.

Ooooo I remember seeing the cartoon about that magic dog. It was in the early 90s when I was a wee one,lol. I can't remember what channel I saw it on. I absolutely adore Svankmajer. I think he's a stopmotion genius! Extraordinary research on this my friend. I appreciate your all of your hard work. YOU'RE AWESOME 💜🙌🏾

Not forgetting Matko and Kubko, which featured two farmers on their everyday lives.

A je to will always be the icon of my childhood

Thank you for this video!

I watched Fantastic planet on tv one time when I was a kid in early 90-s, and it still flashing back some scenes in my memory(everything else I completely forgot). I mean it is pretty much as odd as Clockwork Orange, just in animated form. And yeah, pretty gruesome. I don't think most of the ppl get the animal abuse theme though. -_-

Hello I wanted to comment to say that I have been watching plenty of your videos for a while now and I need to say I really adore them especially your videos on Animation as a guy who is into animation and is gradually getting into the field to be an Animator which in this case is hand drawn and stop motion and I am trying to learn about Animated films both short and feature length from all over the world and all continents. Say here are some recommondations I would love to see for animation and they are. 1. More on Eastern Europe (like Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Czechslovakia, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia ,Romania and Bulgaria) 2. Africa (like Niger, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Algeria and Burkina Faso). 3. Canada 4. Australia and New Zealand 5. Southeast Asia (like Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand) 6. Korea and Taiwan and 7. Latin America (like Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile) since I feel like animation from these places tends to get heavily overshadowed by American, Western European (Like French, Spanish, Italian, British, German and Irish) And Japanese Animation till the point I have came across people who thought those were the only places that were producing them and I think animated films from all sorts of places deserve fair exposure if animation is to be truly appreciated and respected. Really love your videos and I hope you continue to prosper.

7:56 So glad to see this get some love. It’s a gem!

as a czech i dont even know most of these

Yes yes someone talks about my home "country" animation

nice video about my country. this video is czech verified

Man, all I needed to see was that scene at 7:25 to wanna watch that version of Sinbad, the swap from 2D to 3D stop motion took me by surprise. This guy was great at making smooth/charming puppet animation.

And FYI, Tom and Jerry were made here too by American Gene Deitch and a Czech team.

pat and mat my beloved

Czechoslovakian or Chekoslovak?

It was beautiful growing up in the earliest 2000s, when our TV aired only these old gems for children. Nowdays it's all pokemon and transformers and stuff i wouldn't even know, but that era of early post-socialism years, i'm glad i was born to it. Had one coworker who was 18 (not that far off, i thought). Told me he never seen (Hey mister, let's play !) bears and in that moment my heart dropped.

I thought Fantastic Planet was a French animated film.

Yello' one Czech civilian here

Thank you for this video - some of those old animations weren't known to me. Others were and haunted me as a child (for example Čarodějův učeň). Yet you reminded me of some favourite Večerníček of mine (Včerníček is short tv programme featuring one episode of bedtime story for children. I believe it is still running for clearly more than 60 years. I really hope you will cover it in the future as it has really cute and classic intro and outro featuring magic-boy Večerníček in his paper hat who brings bedtime stories❤.) Well reaserched and well done

Sorcerors apprentice is a great movie. As a kid I found it really spooky. Last year I saw it again at this little indie cinema in Prague. Even at 35 years I had to admit that yeah, this is a fine horror movie!

Pat And Mat did not have names in the A je to! era yet, as they originated from a short film titled "Kuťáci" (Tinkers in english). The short itself was based on a series of comics that is sadly lost, but the script for Kuťáci named the characters as Mr. Ouholíček and Mr. Sedlec, but during production of A je to, they were called Tinker#1 and Tinker#2 by their creators. Only in the 90s, they were named Pat & Mat, so they could be sold easily in foreign countries.

In netherlands we got Pat and Mat as "Buurman en Buurman", the characters were voiced in dutch.

Love these animators so much, lots of nostalgia in one video❤

Great Video!

Thank you so much for this video, i’ll try to find some of these films on YT. Haven’t seen «La planète sauvage» by René Laloux but I had the dvd of «Les maîtres du temps» (Time Masters) and there was a few bonus on it. Laloux talked about how difficult it was to produce these films. Surely the animation was mainly made by Czechoslovakian animators by the finance and production was from France, so I would consider those film as french ones. Work of Karel Zeman is great, a sort of modern George Méliès for me, with all his visual tricks. Criterion edited three of his films in a boxset these past year. Still in Czechoslovakia a spoof of the western genre was brilliantly made by Oldrich Lipsky in 1964, «Lemonade Joe» is the english title. (another film shot in sepia tones, I don’t the reason of this). At 9:50 - For «The three robbers» a feature length film was made in 2007 titled «Trick or treaters» by US/German production. These characters must be part of Europe’s folklore. P.S.: In the 70s the french Canadian broadcaster (Radio-Canada) was presenting a lot of animated shorts coming from the Eastern European countries (Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, etc) and a few films (most of the time these productions were translated in french, in France). Although I don’t remember all of the animation style shown here, most of them seems familiar.