I remember watching this cartoon ten years or so ago on the Scandinavian Disney Channel dubbed. But I was never able to re-watch it. This preview is the only thing left of it. Would ''ye'' help me on closing this case?
Since I watched it whole and remember it very well, I can say that the story is about the three children in the preview finding an old paper from hundreds of years ago (thus taking place in the appropriate setting), on it is written the whole story that is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea from the point of view of a female acquaintance. The three children are not the protagonists and only serve as beginning foil and an ending foil. I remember the cartoon for being exceptionally dark and mature in the sense that there were more profound dialogues between the characters than actual action (but that there was much of as well. They are at one point attacked by a giant octopus and a group of wild cannibals). The animation was better during the actual story and it had a distinctive, purple colour scheme to it.
Last Edit: Nov 13, 2016 10:22:13 GMT by thanderbolten
Post by thanderbolten on Nov 13, 2016 10:49:01 GMT
Some more lost media:
The Field of Enchantment (La Clé des champs): A French film. Screenshots and previews there are plenty of, but no luck with the actual film.
Kassai & Leuk (also called Samba Et Leuk, and in some variations, Leuk's name is spelled as Luk): A cartoon about some African boy named Kassai, who was found in the bush when he was just a baby. He was raised by lions, and then adopted by Bintou, who takes him back to her village. Kassai has been chosen to free his people from this curse and must therefore go on adventures. I found the first episode, but no luck with the rest (there should be 26 episodes of this series): www.dailymotion.com/video/x14w15s_samba-leuk-le-lievre-kassai-leuk-the-hare_shortfilms
Post by thanderbolten on Nov 13, 2016 15:18:34 GMT
There are about two or three unaired episodes of the Brazilian cartoon Dogmons! Has anyone mentioned that? Maybe if we plead for it and create the demand, the network would release the unaired episodes. Or maybe I am just naive. In which case, I'm sorry for that.
I think I actually remember seeing ads for 20,000 Leagues at the time, but I don't remember it very well (it might have been for something else). It doesn't help that there are so many adaptations that all share the same name... There's a lot of conflicting information, so here's a summary of my search:
Someone in the comments pointed to this being the IMDb page for it: www.imdb.com/title/tt0442652/ This seems like it would add up, since there's a character named "Jason" in the cast info.
However, if that IS the right page, something weird is up. For instance, it lists it as being made in 2004, which sounds right. However, there exists a Rotten Tomatoes page for a movie with the same director and cast members, but it lists it as 2002. Also, the IMDb says it's an American movie, yet only gives release dates for Germany and Belgium.
Moving to Amazon, there's a page for a DVD of a movie with the same cover image as the IMDb page. The 11-second preview clip has similar animation to the "trailer" you linked (which I think is actually just a clip, not an official trailer)
However, there's also another Amazon page which has the same image as the Rotten Tomatoes page and lists the same director. And now that I'm looking at it, both covers seem to have a very similar title font/layout, so I'm guessing they're both for the same movie.
Thinking about it harder, though, it's not surprising that this movie has so little info about it, and why it's not more widely spread. Probably it was just a low-budget filler movie that nobody really cared about. I bet there's a bunch more of these types of movies out there that only a couple people remember.
That is indeed the same movie, so I downloaded it and stuck it on my crapdump YouTube account:
I have to say, it looks an awful lot like that animated Titanic musical with the rapping dog... lol. At some point I can try to check out the other things that you mentioned, but for future reference, it's preferable if you make a separate thread for each piece of media you're looking for.
Glorious! I do agree that it looks like a low-budget film that usually fades into obscurity. But I still appreciate your search effort very much. As for other media, I will make sure to create separate threads for each of them, sorry for that.