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1978 In Animation
Events in 1978 in animation. Events March * March 1: Karel Zeman's ''Krabat – The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' premieres. * March 11: Masami Hata's ''Chirin no Suzu'' ('' Ringing Bell'') premieres, the first animated feature produced by Sanrio to be aimed more at young adults, and featuring a remarkable tone shift in the second half of the film. * March 27: Jannik Hastrup's Danish animated feature '' The Thralls'' is first released in theaters. April * April 2: The first episode of ''Starzinger'' premieres. * April 3: 50th Academy Awards: '' The Sand Castle'' by Co Hoedeman wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. May * May 12: Hisayuki Toriumi's '' Science Ninja Team Gatchaman: The Movie'' premieres. * May 16–30: Jean-François Laguionie's '' Rowing Across the Atlantic'' premieres during the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. It will later win a Short Film Palme d'Or. June * June 3: The first episode of '' Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern'' airs. * June 16: The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Zeman
Karel Zeman (3 November 1910 – 5 April 1989) was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator, best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation. Because of his creative use of special effects and animation in his films, he has often been called the "Czech Georges Méliès, Méliès". Life Zeman was born on 3 November 1910 in Ostroměř (near Nová Paka) in what was then Austria-Hungary. Published online: At his parents' insistence, he studied business education, business at high school in Kolín. In the 1920s, he studied at a French advertising school, and worked at an advertising studio in Marseilles until 1936. It was in France that he first worked with animation, filming an ad for soap. He then returned to his home country (by now the First Czechoslovak Republic, known as Czechoslovakia), after visiting Egypt, Yugoslavia, and Greece. Back in Czechoslovakia, Zeman advertised for Czech firms like Bata Shoes, Baťa and Tatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here Comes Miss Modern
, also known as ''Smart-san'' or ''Mademoiselle Anne'', is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Waki Yamato. It was serialized by Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ... in the magazine ''Shōjo Friend'' from 1975 to 1977. The title can be literally translated into English as ''Here Comes Miss Modern'', ''Here Comes Miss High-Collar'' ("haikara" being the Japanese language, Japanese version of "high collar"), or ''Fashionable Girl Passing By''. In 1977, it was awarded the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shojo. The series was later adapted as a 42-episode anime television series produced by Nippon Animation, which aired in Japan on TV Asahi in Tokyo and other local stations across the country from June 3, 1978, to March 31, 1979. The anime was later rebroad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
