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Croatia Film
Croatia Film d.o.o. (formerly Croatia Film d.d.) is a state-owned film production and distribution company based in Zagreb, Croatia. It began operations in 1946. The company produced the region's only animated features to date during the 1980s and 1990s, all directed by Milan Blažeković: '' The Elm-Chanted Forest'', '' The Magician's Hat'', and '' Lapitch the Little Shoemaker''. Croatia Film was also involved in two animated television series: a spin-off of ''Lapitch'' in 2000, and the satirical ''Laku noć, Hrvatska ''Laku noć, Hrvatska'' (''Good night, Croatia'') is a Croatian adult animated series produced by Croatia Film of Zagreb. It debuted in February 2005 on Nova TV (Croatia), Nova TV and was shown on the station daily until the end of the year. In 2 ...'' (''Good Night, Croatia'') from 2005. In the U.S. end credits of ''The Elm-Chanted Forest'', Croatia Film's name was spelled as one word. References External links * Croatian animation studios Mass media c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagreb
Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately above mean sea level, above sea level. At the 2021 census, the city itself had a population of 767,131, while the population of Zagreb metropolitan area is 1,086,528. The oldest settlement in the vicinity of the city was the Roman Andautonia, in today's Šćitarjevo. The historical record of the name "Zagreb" dates from 1134, in reference to the foundation of the settlement at Kaptol, Zagreb, Kaptol in 1094. Zagreb became a free royal city in 1242. In 1851, Janko Kamauf became Zagreb's List of mayors of Zagreb, first mayor. Zagreb has special status as a Administrative divisions of Croatia, Croatian administrative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's Administrative divisions of Croatia, primary subdivisions, with Counties of Croatia, twenty counties. Other major urban centers include Split, Croatia, Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The country spans , and has a population of nearly 3.9 million. The Croats arrived in modern-day Croatia, then part of Illyria, Roman Illyria, in the late 6th century. By the 7th century, they had organized the territory into Duchy of Croatia, two duchies. Croatia was first internationally recognized as independent on 7 June 879 during the reign of Duke Branimir of Croatia, Branimir. Tomislav of Croatia, Tomis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Blažeković
Milan Blažeković (6 July 1940 – 30 May 2019) was a Croatian animator. Blažeković began his career at the Zagreb Film studio with "mini" short films such as ''The Fish'', ''Ikarus'', ''Vergl'' and ''Gorilla Dance'' (1968), '' The Man Who Had to Sing'' (October 1971) and ''Man: The Polluter'' (August 8, 1973), the latter for the National Film Board of Canada. In later years, he directed three children's films with the animation unit of Croatia Film: '' The Elm-Chanted Forest'' (June 19, 1986), '' The Magician's Hat'' (January 1, 1990) and '' Lapitch the Little Shoemaker'' (October 23, 1997). By around 2000, Blažeković ended his partnership with Croatia Film, and returned to Zagreb Film to work on a fourth animated feature, ''Tales of Long Ago'' (''Priče iz davnine''), which was initially planned for a Christmas 2003 release. Blažeković was involved in two 2011 projects: one of which was ''The Hedgehog's House'' (''Ježeva kućica''), and an adaptation of Veselin Gatalo's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Elm-Chanted Forest
''The Elm-Chanted Forest'' (''Čudesna šuma'') is a 1986 Yugoslav animated musical film; in the U.S., it is also known as ''Fantasy Forest''. It was the first full-length film directed by Milan Blažeković, and also the first animated feature produced in Yugoslavia. Plot Nature-loving artist Peter Palette takes a nap under an enchanted elm tree, which grants him the ability to communicate with the animals of the forest and to cast spells with his paintbrush. As he is granted shelter at the lodge of J. Edgar Beaver, a crow reports his appearance to Emperor Spine the cactus king, whose reign is prophesied by his wind-riding soothsayer Baron Burr to be ended by a human. Spine orders his court magician Thistle to execute J. Edgar and to deliver Peter to his castle so that Spine can personally devour him. On his way to collect Palette, Thistle recruits retired athlete Bud E. Bear to assist in his errand after removing a thorn from his foot. Bud E. in turn treats Thistle to a round at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magician's Hat (film)
''The Magician's Hat'' (''Čarobnjakov šešir'') is a 1990 animated film produced by the Croatia Film company and directed by Milan Blažeković. It is the sequel to 1986's ''The Elm-Chanted Forest''. Story Thistle the magician teams up with his animal friends, along with some fairies and a volcano-dwelling dragon, to rescue their forest from the wrath of the Ice Emperor Frostkill (Car Mrazomor) and his army of icy ghost witches. Release In late 2007, both this film and its predecessor, ''The Elm-Chanted Forest'', received their DVD debut in the countries of former Yugoslavia from Happy TV. As of 2015, ''The Magician's Hat'' has seen no official release in North America. Cancelled US release Peter Fernandez was working on an English dub for this film, but it was ultimately cancelled by American Distributors for reasons unknown, yet possibly due to the scene where Emperor Frostkill gets stabbed in the chest by the Sword of Salvation and thought it was too dark for Western viewe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lapitch The Little Shoemaker
''Lapitch the Little Shoemaker'' (, ) is a 1997 animated feature that was originally released by Croatia Film. Produced on vintage cel equipment during the early 1990s, this was the third feature from Croatia Film's animation unit and director Milan Blažeković, after ''The Elm-Chanted Forest'' (1986) and '' The Magician's Hat'' (1990). It is based on '' The Brave Adventures of Lapitch'', a 1913 novel by Croatian author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. In this adaptation, all of the characters are animals, and the title character is a mouse, rather than the human character of the original work. As with the book, the film is about a shoemaker's apprentice who leaves the confines of his ill-tempered master, and sets off on an adventure. During his journey, he befriends a circus performer named Gita, and fights against the evil Dirty Rat (rat version of the Black Man, a villain in the original book). ''Lapitch'' remains Croatia's most successful production in terms of viewership, and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pula Film Festival
Pula Film Festival () is an annual Croatian film festival, established in 1954. It is held in a Roman amphitheater known as the Pula Arena. Pula Film Festival is the oldest Croatian film festival and is usually held in the summer, in July or August. Apart from film screenings open to the public, the annual Croatian film industry awards are also traditionally presented at the festival. The awards presented at the festival (called Golden Arenas) are the main national film awards in the country, and serve as the Croatian equivalent of the American Academy Awards. The festival was originally started in 1954 and within a few years it became the centerpiece event of the Yugoslav film industry, with the first national awards being presented in 1957. This lasted until 1991, when the festival was cancelled due to the breakup of Yugoslavia, only to resume in 1992 as the Croatian film awards festival. It has been held every year since (with the exception of the 1994 edition, which was als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lapitch The Little Shoemaker (TV Series)
''Lapitch the Little Shoemaker'' (, ) is a Croatian animated television series from Croatia Film and EM.TV/HaffaDiebold, with animation by Neptuno Films of Barcelona, Spain. It is a spin-off from the 1997 film of the same name. Returning from the film are the title character, Lapitch the mouse, and his girlfriend Lisa, along with their pets Brewster and Pico. For the series, a character called Melchior replaces Master Scowler's role. The show was formerly aired on Tiny Pop in the United Kingdom. Episodes Voices * Teresa Gallagher - Lapitch, Percival Periwinkle III (English version) * Nigel Greaves - (English version) * Liza Ross - Yanna, Brunhilda, Queen Rat, Auntie (English version) * Peter Marinker - Dirty Rat (English version) * Toni Barry - (English version) * George Roubicek George Karl Roubicek (born 25 May 1935) is an Austrian actor, and a dialogue director and script adaptor for English-language versions of foreign films and television shows. Born in Austria, Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laku Noć, Hrvatska
''Laku noć, Hrvatska'' (''Good night, Croatia'') is a Croatian adult animated series produced by Croatia Film of Zagreb. It debuted in February 2005 on Nova TV (Croatia), Nova TV and was shown on the station daily until the end of the year. In 2006, it showed up on Jabuka TV. The entire series is also available on 4 DVDs. ''Laku noć, Hrvatska'' is a parody of Croatian TV news and other TV shows. Every episode has three basic parts: news, sport and weather. It satirically makes fun of Croatian and other world politicians. It also features animated commercials during the course of an episode. There were 252 episodes of the show. On weekdays episodes were 10 minutes long, while those shown on weekends were 25 minutes long. Voice actors *Dalibor Talajić as , Josip Radeljak, Dragan Primorac, Ivica Kirin, Hloverka Novak-Sržić, Andrija Hebrang (politician, born 1946), Andrija Hebrang, Vladimir Šeks, Josip Bozanić, Doris Košta, Krešimir Mišak, Neven Ljubičić, Ljubo Ćesić R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celebrity Home Entertainment
Celebrity Home Entertainment (also known as simply Celebrity Video), founded by Noel C. Bloom in 1987, was a home video distributor specializing in mostly obscure material from around the world, as well as B-grade action films and softcore adult fare. They also distributed some material that was popular at the time of its original release, including ''BraveStarr'', '' Filmation's Ghostbusters'', '' COPS'' and the 1987 ''G.I. Joe'' movie. It was formed after he left International Video Entertainment, which was sold off to Carolco Pictures in 1986. In 1987, the company offered the rights to the Video Gems catalog for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, but the company had withdrawn the offer after a lawsuit. They were perhaps best known for their Just for Kids Home Video imprint. This imprint offered child-oriented and/or animated material broadcast on television in the United States as well as English-language versions of foreign programming and original acquisitions. Some, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Animation Studios
Croatian may refer to: *Croatia *Croatian language *Croatian people *Croatians (demonym) See also * * * Croatan (other) * Croatia (other) * Croatoan (other) * Hrvatski (other) * Hrvatsko (other) * Serbo-Croatian (other) Serbo-Croatian, Croato-Serbian, Serbo-Croat or Croato-Serb, refers to a South Slavic language that is the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro, as well as a minority language in Kosovo Kosovo, officiall ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass Media Companies Established In 1946
Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementary particles, theoretically with the same amount of matter, have nonetheless different masses. Mass in modern physics has multiple definitions which are conceptually distinct, but physically equivalent. Mass can be experimentally defined as a measure of the body's inertia, meaning the resistance to acceleration (change of velocity) when a net force is applied. The object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies. The SI base unit of mass is the kilogram (kg). In physics, mass is not the same as weight, even though mass is often determined by measuring the object's weight using a spring scale, rather than balance scale comparing it directly with known masses. An object on the Moon would weigh less than it d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
