, also known as was a black and white Japanese

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series that aired from 1961 to 1964. It is the oldest anime television series next to

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The show was about historical events through a character who was not aware of "what happened on this day in history". Sometimes photographs and film footage were mixed in with the animations to explain what historical event had taken place. The research archives came from the newspaper where the director's Fuku-chan manga was printing at the time.

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The series began in 1961 as a series of 3 minute shorts that comprised a mix of animation, film footage and stills taken from the research archives of

Mainichi Shinbun The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by In addition to the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English-language news website called , and publishes a bilin ...

. Director Ryūichi Yokoyama's Fuku-chan manga was running in the newspaper at the time. This first series was broadcast as ''Instant History'' on

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and was sponsored by

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. The series was then recycled into ''Otogi Manga Calendar'' which was broadcast on

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in 1962 and was sponsored by

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. Parts of the series are also found in ''Knowledgeable University'' which was broadcast on

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in 1966.

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Otogi Manga Calendar
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