# Ever hear of German animator Hans Fischerkoesen?

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**Created:** [June 30, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-hear-of-german-animator-hans-fischerkoesen/967170 "2022-06-30T03:47:23Z")\
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> [@teelabrown](#):
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> 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](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-animated-specials/782635/51):
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> 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](http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.7/articles/moritz1.7.html) made deep inside of WWII. [Here’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS-EJfGo4EM) the version I remembered, and [here’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j7_t9HPBPA) the …

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