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Chasseurs de dragons (2004)
A fun-tastic cartoon!
I wonder why this cartoon seems to be nearly unknown: it's not a masterpiece for sure, but it's worthy see. Here we have the enterprises of Gwizdo e Lian-Chu, two dragon hunters who lives in a fantastic world of floating island. The first is a cowardly but speedy-talked young man whose passion is to have a contract signed for his job of everyday: the dragon hunting. But it's his big comrade Lian-Chu (as big as he's good)to fight against their amazing enemies. That's it, the dragons are almost always defeated, but hardly our heroes manage to be paid for this. Every episode told a story, not only the chase (that is actually left on the background), and each of these is an amusing adventure all to be enjoyed. I repeat: this series can be not a masterpiece, but it's a little jewel, very original especially for an European production (of animation, for in the French comics we can see more better things of this kind). Last thing: pay attention to the catchy opening theme, "The dragon hunters song" by the Cure!
Dve klubícka (1962)
A romantic tale...
I've seen this short on "Czech Animation Master", and it's too bad that no one has already comment it... Hermina Tyrlova is a great experimentalist and innovating master of the stop-motion animation, above all if you consider the years when she worked.
I'll comment the others too in my spare time; meanwhile take a look at this romantic story of two wool skeins, and realize the big input she could have given in the stop-motion art. Beware to consider it too outdated: maybe nowadays no one would make a short like this, but they wouldn't even have nice ideas like this one. Reflect upon it, then you could watch other works from a different point of view.