Damn good animation.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Charge of the Light Brigade
Clive-Candy — 17 years ago(August 06, 2008 10:44 AM)
I loved the animation in this movie "THE RUSSIANS THE RUSSIANS THE RUSSIANS" . I could have watched the whole film if it was like this anyone know where the animation of this movie originated from.
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Hancock_the_Superb — 14 years ago(August 20, 2011 05:54 AM)
Richard Williams (of The Pink Panther and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? among many others) directed the animation. The animation was done in style of Punch magazine's political cartoons of the period, but as far as I know they were original works.
I agree the animation was by far the best part of the movie (aside from Jon Addison's score) - really clever and inventive stylistically, capturing the feel of the times and doing a marvelous job of providing exposition. Too bad the rest of the film wasn't so good.
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Hancock_the_Superb — 13 years ago(May 30, 2012 01:37 PM)
To answer your question, I was reading Orlando Figes' book on the Crimean War and came across this cartoon from Punch:
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000KT9FcEailMA/s/900/720/Victo rian-Cartoons-Punch-1854-04-08-143.jpg
One of the film's animated scenes has an almost identical image:
http://s1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg495/AllenbysEyes/The Charge of%20the%20Light%20Brigade%201968/?action=view¤t=CIMG0272.jp g
Bear and Lion imagery was fairly common in that era's Punch, especially in relation to Russia and Britain's "Great Game" rivalry in Afghanistan. Wikipedia provides this example:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Great_Game_cartoon_ from_1878.jpg
Anyone more knowledgeable of Punch could find other examples, I'm sure. Only so much of their material is available online.
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