Anime on Animation

[john tysome]

In 1982 an series titled The Mysterious Cities of Gold (Les Mysterieuses 
Cites d'Or), a 39-episode animated serial was made as a French/Japanese 
co-production. Primarily for French television the series was successfully 
dubbed into Swedish, English, Polish, German, Japanese, and probably more. 
The animation team was all Japanese and the cartoon's style was strongly 
anime, while overall production was shared Franch/Japanese, though i believe 
the whole series was made in France.

I know that 20 years on this series still has a strong cult following in 
parts of Europe within the tight age-group of people who may have watched it 
as a child, and it is interesting that the French animators for the cartoon 
which started this thread would probably be of the right age to haved 
watched, and be fans of this popular series. Recently Spielberg was 
interested in film rights apparently...

Influence in cetatin cases may be given to a single phenomenon if it is 
strong enough. This may be one at least. The quality of animation and 
story-telling in the series are certainly yet to seem dated compared to 
TV-fodder today.

Images etc
http://www.whimsy.demon.co.uk/gold/index.html
http://www.citiesofgold.co.uk/

John Tysome

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