Ever hear of German animator Hans Fischerkoesen?

[teelabrown]

I hadn’t before about twelve minutes ago. They just uploaded one of his cartoons at the youtube channel Cartoon Classics: Snowman in July. It was charming, so I searched for any other cartoons by this animator.

I just watched Verwitterte Melodie. Wow. It’s weird and charming and strange. Check it out.

[Darren_Garrison]

@teelabrown

They just uploaded one of his cartoons at the youtube channel Cartoon Classics: Snowman in July.

Didn’t recognize him by name, but *Snowman in July" used to play on my local early-morning kid’s show.

Lost animated specials

Don’t they still show the Rudolph new year special on CBS? I remember seeing it again just a couple of years ago. Could have been a download, I suppose. The donkey one I had forgotten even existed. There is short film called “Snowman in July” that I used to see occasionally on a local morning kid’s show. Haven’t seen that one in decades until I looked it up on Youtube. Never suspected that it was actually a German film made deep inside of WWII. Here’s the version I remembered, and here’s the …

[Maserschmidt]

I had never seen this, thank you for sharing it.

Here’s the original version of Snowman in July, “Der Schneemann”. That’s some surrealist ending!

[teelabrown]

@Maserschmidt

That’s some surrealist ending!

I’m glad that the writers of Disney’s Frozen gave Olaf’s ending a happier twist. Although the German snowman didn’t seem upset at his fate.

[Maserschmidt]

Yes, I suppose that was more of a “Frosty the Snowman” ending…