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Hayao Miyazaki to make LITTLE NEMO movie? - Well, sadly no, but here's the test he did in 70mm...

Hey folks, Harry here... just back from a funeral, an antique mall, lake-side salad eating and the gym - to find an IM from Cartuna - the creator of our own fun animations - that pointed me towards an animation test that was to sell the idea of a Miyazaki version of Winsor McCay's brilliant seminal strip... Adventures in Slumberland starring Little Nemo! Now the animated film that came out isn't all that... but try watching the below YouTube video without going a bit apeshit. Man... what could have been. I've never seen this before - but god... can you imagine watching this... not on YouTube, but in 70mm widescreen? Jesus. To read more on the adaptation of this film - check out the amazing site, CartoonBrew.Com - This is for all you animation geeks that love what might have been...






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  • April 10, 2008, 1:25 a.m. CST

    Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...First!!!!1!!!1!!!

    by conniebrean1

    I'm an asshole! Gwarsh!

  • April 10, 2008, 1:30 a.m. CST

    Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...Who gives a shit?!! ?!! ?!!

    by googamooga

    Really...?

  • April 10, 2008, 1:31 a.m. CST

    by Monknee

  • April 10, 2008, 1:32 a.m. CST

    That was done in '84!?!

    by MaxTheSilent

    Jesus Christ, talk about ahead of its time.

  • April 10, 2008, 1:33 a.m. CST

    OMG! Fucking morons got pwned by Stallone!

    by Motoko Kusanagi

    LNINO!!! LNINO!!! LNINO!!!

  • April 10, 2008, 1:33 a.m. CST

    My dog just jumped on my laptop

    by Monknee

    and hit the enter key.

  • April 10, 2008, 1:36 a.m. CST

    You're never too old to have a happy childhood???

    by Motoko Kusanagi

    WTF??????

  • April 10, 2008, 1:49 a.m. CST

    And With Those Stupid Comments...

    by AlphaTrion

    ... for this cool of a post, means that this site has jumped the shark. MARK MY WORDS.

  • April 10, 2008, 1:49 a.m. CST

    lame

    by Jeremy_Cox

    Lame.

  • April 10, 2008, 1:59 a.m. CST

    the original film was one of the seminal parts of my childhood

    by s0nicdeathmonkey

    that and Nightmare Before Christmas.

  • April 10, 2008, 2:02 a.m. CST

    The feature lenght film exist

    by ThePilgrim

    An animated feature film entitled Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (known simply as "Nemo" in Japan) was finally released in Japan in July 1989 and in the US on August 21, 1992. It was directed by Masami Hata, Masanori Hata and William T. Hurtz from a screenplay by Chris Columbus and Richard Outten. Originally conceived in 1982, this Japanese-American co-production had a long and tumultuous history which included a 1984 pilot by Ghibli director Yoshifumi Kondō.[1] Though regarded as a commercial failure in the States, it nevertheless went on to be nominated for and won several industry awards for its brilliant animation quality. The film was released on DVD in October 2004.--------<P> Love the Nes game.... Damn I'm getting olddddddddddddddddddddddddd...

  • April 10, 2008, 2:13 a.m. CST

    I know it;s not the Hayao Miyazaki version

    by ThePilgrim

  • April 10, 2008, 2:23 a.m. CST

    Little Nemo

    by Jarreth99

    I loved this film!! Or atleast the one that looked exactly like this... Hmmmm.thanks for clearing the air Pilgrim

  • April 10, 2008, 2:40 a.m. CST

    Nothing like the McCay style

    by BenBraddock

    but that's OK, that was an awesome piece of animation there. According to IMDB, Ray Bradbury was involved in the 1989 version. Anyone know if it's available on disc? My dream would be to see this done as if by Winsor McCay though, that would surely blow many a mind

  • April 10, 2008, 3 a.m. CST

    Miyazaki is overrated

    by CuervoJones

    I needed to say something stupid.

  • April 10, 2008, 3:25 a.m. CST

    Wow, that was wonderful

    by theycallmemrglass

    The animation is breathtaking in this sequence. I never heard of this film but is the released version still good, I expect the animation is not as good as the sequence. I want to buy the film anyway.

  • April 10, 2008, 3:29 a.m. CST

    Impressed.

    by AllPowerfulWizardOfOz

    Considering when this was made that was really awesome.

  • April 10, 2008, 3:35 a.m. CST

    Cool

    by kwisatzhaderach

    Great sequence. Old school.

  • April 10, 2008, 3:43 a.m. CST

    That animation JUST HAD SEX WITH MY FACE.

    by CENOBITE

    Beautiful stuff. Amazing what beauty hand-drawn animation can be from Japan when they put effort into it.

  • April 10, 2008, 4:16 a.m. CST

    stop uwe boll peitition

    by bacci40

    http://tinyurl.com/3h28dl...and here is his response....http://tinyurl.com/524qfc....pretty soon, he will be boxing everyone on the internets

  • April 10, 2008, 4:23 a.m. CST

    i miss good 2d

    by bacci40

    seriously....too much of the 3d cgi...kids today dont know what a record player is...they have never seen a typewriter...they will soon totally forget about video tapes and audio tapes....dont take away 2d animation...that would be just too sad

  • April 10, 2008, 4:36 a.m. CST

    Little Nemo...

    by TroutMaskReplicant

    How interesting. Never heard of it. From the looks of it, it's certainly more interesting a notion than Tintin. But possibly as racist too. See the comicstriplibrary. org archive website for instance...

  • April 10, 2008, 4:45 a.m. CST

    Anyone remember playing the NES game?

    by SpencerTrilby

    I'll keep posting until someone REMEMBERS the NES game!

  • April 10, 2008, 4:49 a.m. CST

    Oh, and that demo was neat

    by SpencerTrilby

    I'm by no means a Miyazaki fan (except maybe Porco Rosso and Totoro - I find the rest boring, pretentious and outdated by next gen Japanime artists like Satoshi Kon or Katsuhiro Otomo; not to mention the infamous comments of the "master" toward the late Rin Taro) BUT I would've killed to see this feature length Nemo.

  • April 10, 2008, 4:50 a.m. CST

    And by "Rin Taro", I meant Osamu Tezuka

    by SpencerTrilby

    Fuck.

  • April 10, 2008, 4:51 a.m. CST

    Utterly beautiful - proof that TB'ers are dead inside

    by drwilliamweir

    I will eat your souls.

  • April 10, 2008, 5:17 a.m. CST

    The laughter of children

    by Norm Cascade

    makes me die inside.

  • April 10, 2008, 6:02 a.m. CST

    NES game is an underrated gem

    by Pongo

    Everyone needs to play it.

  • April 10, 2008, 6:19 a.m. CST

    Very Castle in the Sky

    by filmcoyote

    I've never heard of this Adventures in Slumberland of which you speak but this looks a lot like the artistry in Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky (i believe some places it is known as Laputa). If this was done as a test in 84 perhaps Miyazaki not continuing on it influences his Castle in the Sky, was (in 1986) was indeed his next feature. Love Castle in the Sky, Porco Rosso, Kiki and Spirited Away. For me Totoro is the best though.

  • April 10, 2008, 6:48 a.m. CST

    I have seen this before, years ago

    by ELGordo

    But I can't for the life of me remember where.

  • April 10, 2008, 6:54 a.m. CST

    This is better...

    by pencil-man

    than that other one that came out. In Miyazaki's version Nemo is hauling ass. Check out youtube for the one they made and you'll see how dull it is compared to this.

  • April 10, 2008, 6:55 a.m. CST

    This pilot is available on DVD (with 2 others)

    by Tsuka

    3 pilots of Little Nemo were produced in Japan. One directed by Sadao Tsukioka, one by Yoshifumi Kondo, and one by Osamu Dezaki. All these pilots are available on R2 japanese DVD. More informations in french on my website : http://www.catsuka.com/news_detail.php?id=1135260528 This Kondo's pilot is available on Buta-Connection.net since many years : http://www.buta-connection.net/download/videos_divers.php (the link is currently down) They have a information page about it : http://www.buta-connection.net/films/nemo.php

  • April 10, 2008, 6:57 a.m. CST

    pencil-man, are you a believer of 2for2true?

    by just pillow talk

    He stabs shitheels in the mouth with #2 pencils if they talk in a movie theater.

  • April 10, 2008, 7:04 a.m. CST

    God, what I'd give to see this as a full length...

    by FlickaPoo

    film...or maybe a great series...sigh. In interviews he has said that at his age he must chose his projects very carefully because he worries that he only has one or two left in him....when I think about what we'll miss out on.....sigh....

  • April 10, 2008, 7:14 a.m. CST

    This movie came out in USA in '92

    by Acid_Frio

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104740/ wheres the love, fakers!?

  • April 10, 2008, 7:45 a.m. CST

    Damn! I just got owned.

    by rbatty024

    That was fucking fantastic. Get Miyazaki back on this stat.

  • April 10, 2008, 7:49 a.m. CST

    The giggling... the horrible, horrible giggling...

    by Chewtoy

    The animation is of course beautiful, but I really doubt I could sit through a full 90 minutes of that character. I've always found "Little Nemo" off-putting, for some reason, and that lame voice track did nothing to endear the character to me. I'm much happier that Miyazaki spent his time on the flight scenes from "Kiki's Delivery Service" and "Porco Rosso" instead.

  • April 10, 2008, 7:58 a.m. CST

    The Most Unbelievable Part of This Story...

    by ChildOfMen

    Harry eating a salad? Come on!

  • April 10, 2008, 8:02 a.m. CST

    G O R G E O U S

    by Osmosis Jones

  • April 10, 2008, 8:05 a.m. CST

    he didn't eat a salad

    by logicalnoise01

    he swallowed it whole. Just kidding knowles. THank you for posting this. It was epic and just has me psyched to see what the hell Miyazaki is going to do with watercolors in his new flick.

  • April 10, 2008, 8:07 a.m. CST

    I prefer Bednobs and Broomsticks.

    by The Gospel According to Bastardface

  • April 10, 2008, 8:21 a.m. CST

    That was lame. I like SOUTHPARK better

    by JeffManSixtyFo

  • April 10, 2008, 8:30 a.m. CST

    I'd rather see Chomet's take on it.

    by Nice Marmot

    And I still dream of Chomet doing a Cricket in Times Square flick.

  • April 10, 2008, 8:43 a.m. CST

    It's pronounced 'NE Mo' NOT 'NEE Mo'

    by Prague23

    I guess Americans just have a knack for sounding stupid.

  • April 10, 2008, 8:47 a.m. CST

    Near the end...

    by -guyinthebackrow

    ... are they flying over the city from AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS? Or is it IN THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS? Or NEAR? Hell... I can't remember.

  • April 10, 2008, 8:59 a.m. CST

    Yoshifumi Kondo directed that, not Miyazaki.

    by Multiplex

    Why does the headline say "he" (Miyazaki) "did" this?

  • April 10, 2008, 9:12 a.m. CST

    SpencerTrilby, I do!

    by Acappellaman

    I was wondering if anybody would mention the game that came out on NES. I never made it all the way through, but I do have fond memories of it.

  • April 10, 2008, 9:50 a.m. CST

    Simply beautiful.

    by Galva

    I hate kids, I hate kids in animated movies worse, I hate the obnoxious laughter in that test, but by God, if that was part of an animated movie, I'd see it in theaters immediately. "What might have been" indeed.

  • April 10, 2008, 9:52 a.m. CST

    Very cool.

    by Kurutteru Yatsu

    I only vaguely remember the movie we did end up getting but I'm sure it didn't look as good as that. And for the record the NES game was indeed kickass. Classic Capcom.<br><br>By the way SpencerTrillby, "Japanime?" Really? You want a Streamline Pictures catalog, seeing as how it's apparently 1993 again?

  • April 10, 2008, 10:43 a.m. CST

    When is Hayao Miyazaki

    by Series7

    gonna make a movie with John Lasseter? Seriously, is it that hard for them to do something? Or for John Lasseter to just make a Miyazaki film?

  • April 10, 2008, 11:20 a.m. CST

    Because you're never too old to have a happy childhood

    by JumpinJehosaphat

    I lol'd.

  • April 10, 2008, 11:21 a.m. CST

    The Brew kids got it right

    by Bagheera

    it's visually stunning, to be sure, but it's not McCay's Nemo. It's Miyazaki's, 100%.

  • April 10, 2008, 11:24 a.m. CST

    Winsor McCay

    by darwinwins

    He was one of the greatest illustrators to have lived and it's a shame that people still don't know who he is. Little Nemo is a work of art in every way from story telling to the use of colors and lines. He had a little problem with lettering but it's a small gripe. The movie is beautiful but not as gorgeous as it could have been had Ghibli taken hold of the reigns. C'est la vie.

  • April 10, 2008, 11:28 a.m. CST

    But where

    by phool2056

    would he have found opportunity for a gooey monster or a teary farewell on a grassy knoll? Miyazaki is nothing without a teary farewell on a grassy knoll! But wow. Every time I see even a moment from any Miyazaki project I have to put all work on hold and go watch Mononoke again. Beautiful stuff.

  • April 10, 2008, 11:43 a.m. CST

    Harry + GYM?!!! are you getting in shape?

    by pipergates

    CONGRATULATIONS man! must be the marital obligations woke you up!

  • April 10, 2008, 12:07 p.m. CST

    Ummm

    by Fart King

    Where's the fish?

  • April 10, 2008, 12:56 p.m. CST

    Anyone who does not know Little Nemo...

    by Johnno

    Clearly is ignorant about the history of animation! Now how long until ZeroCorpse comes in here and trashes it for having the 'same' character designs as other Ghibli films and a not so fluid framerate and championing Duckman as the greatest piece of animation ever made?

  • April 10, 2008, 1:49 p.m. CST

    LONGER VERSION of this clip here:

    by mansep

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3342755205038857742 but this was not directd by Miyazaki.

  • April 10, 2008, 1:55 p.m. CST

    Tom Petty on the Soundtrack

    by Orionsangels

  • April 10, 2008, 2:42 p.m. CST

    damn...

    by blackthought

    i've always loved how miyazaki animates flight...a sight to behold...i once animated flight...and well...er...

  • April 10, 2008, 3:48 p.m. CST

    Windsor, Where Are Ya, Baby?

    by ericinwisconsin

    McKay made some animated Nemo cartoons back in the silent film era. He drew every single frame by hand, INCLUDING DRAWING THE BACKGROUNDS IN EACH FRAME! No static backgrounds for Windsor. The man was a freaking genius and faster with a pen than George Perez. <br /><br /> Go back to bed, Leonard, you are not yet a spaceman.

  • April 10, 2008, 3:49 p.m. CST

    I also enjoyed the NES game

    by ur-vile

    Somewhere I have a playback file via emulator where I play a new perfect game. Definitely one of the forgotten gems of that era. That and Monster Party!<p><p> Capcom put out a lot of memorable NES licensed games back in the day

  • April 10, 2008, 3:50 p.m. CST

    near, not new

    by ur-vile

    D'oh

  • April 10, 2008, 4:36 p.m. CST

    Little Nemo in Animation Form

    by vimesSam

  • April 10, 2008, 5:46 p.m. CST

    I loved the NES game too...

    by llac12

    but I never made it past a giant penguin you had to beat with a wand (because you would have to charge the fucker). The mario games ripped off a couple of ideas from that game now that I think about it. ou would ride a lizard that would climb walls, you would turn into a bee...shit! Capcom should sue somebody.

  • April 10, 2008, 5:55 p.m. CST

    If either Pixar or Miyazaki

    by Bob of the Shire

    made a new Little Nemo movie, it'd probably be the best animated film ever made. I'm not even shitting you, it would be fucking amazing.

  • April 10, 2008, 6:32 p.m. CST

    My brutal opinion of LITTLE NEMO

    by BadWaldosRevenge

    The actual final version of animated movie looked great and amazing...but in truth, it was SHIT because of a terribly written script. Give it a second look and you'll see the movie isn't as compelling as it appears to be. <br> And I am an animation buff and a critic. To give you the idea of who I am, I thought Disney's Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, Spirited Away and the longer fan-assembled cut of Richard Williams' The Thief and the Cobbler are masterpieces. <br> Howl's Moving Castle truly sucked!

  • April 10, 2008, 6:40 p.m. CST

    Jesus... that - was,,, a whole lot - of... useless puncutation!

    by Bass Bastardson

    Good God.

  • April 10, 2008, 7:20 p.m. CST

    Music - Wagner, Lohengrin - Prelude to Act III

    by eggart

    http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=InPRlxxOpOc

  • April 10, 2008, 7:48 p.m. CST

    OMG WOW I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS ABOUT 8 YEARS AGO!

    by Rufus

    ....

  • April 10, 2008, 7:54 p.m. CST

    Awesome!

    by Spicypeanut

    Man that was fucking amazing. And to the guy whining about a kid in a flying bed, you're taking your name from a man who fights crime in underwear. I love the Batman myself, but get a life doucheface.

  • April 10, 2008, 11:45 p.m. CST

    Holy Shit

    by S.Lowrey

    That was fucking awesome. It looks like they recycled some of that for Kiki's delivery service but oh my God that was great. In 70MM I probably would have shit 'em. That little segment was better than most animated movies that have come out since that time.

  • April 10, 2008, 11:48 p.m. CST

    Also... More Shit

    by S.Lowrey

    Whisper of The Heart is probably the most underrated Ghibli film (but Porco Rosso is pretty underrated as well)

  • April 11, 2008, 12:47 a.m. CST

    Yoshifumi Kondo directed

    by The Internet

    this clip - but sadly few would have clicked on something labeled "Yoshifumi Kondo Test Sequence" He's amazing but, IMO, Miyazaki is the greatest all-around filmmaker alive today. Not greatest animator, not greatest kid's movie maker - greatest filmmaker. Im certainly not an anime expert, barely even a fan of the overall genre, but, Miyazaki is responsible putting together at least 6 of the most perfect marriages of storytelling + images + music. Ever. I'm not saying they're my all-time favorite films - but for what they are - they are absolutely perfect.

  • April 11, 2008, 6:39 a.m. CST

    Christ, you people suck!!

    by MaxTheSilent

    If you can't appreciate something as incredible as this then you all might as well... subscribe to C.H.U.D. or something. They practically WELCOME trolls and retards in their message boards.

  • April 12, 2008, 7:50 p.m. CST

    Looks great...

    by THT3000

    ... but the real film was so good I can't imagine this possibly being better.