The following is a list of lost or unfinished animated films.
Year | Film | Director | Country | Notes |
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1892 | Un bon bock | Émile Reynaud | France | Painted in 1888, it was first screened on 28 October 1892 using the Théâtre Optique process, which allowed him to project a hand-painted colored film, before the invention of cinematograph. No copy exists, as Reynaud threw all but two of his picture bands into the Seine river as he was suffering of depression at that time. [1] |
Year | Film | Director | Country | Notes |
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1908 | The Humpty Dumpty Circus | J. Stuart Blackton and | United States | Claimed by Smith to be the first film to use stop motion animation, though the claim has been disputed. |
Year | Film | Director | Country | Notes |
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1917 | Kaiser | Álvaro Marins | Brazil | A short film, considered the first cartoon produced in Brazil. [2] |
1917 | Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki | Ōten Shimokawa | Japan | Once considered to be the first professional Japanese animated film ever made. [3] [4] |
1917 | El Apóstol | Quirino Cristiani | Argentina | Historians consider it the world's first animated feature film. The film was destroyed in a 1926 fire in Valle's studio. |
1918 | Urashima Tarō | Seitaro Kitayama | Japan | Was thought to have been discovered at a flea market at the Shitennō-ji temple in Osaka in 2007, but the discovered film later turned out to be another unknown work because a plot description and a series of stills of the 1918 film that differed considerably from the discovered film were found in a contemporary magazine. [5] |
1918 | Sin dejar rastros | Quirino Cristiani | Argentina | A feature film using cutout animation. |
Year | Film | Director | Country | Notes |
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1922 | Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Relativitäts-Theorie | Hanns Walter Kornblum | Germany | A partly animated documentary film created with the goal of bringing Einstein's theory of relativity to the broad public. Part of the film was used to create Max Fleischer's The Einstein Theory of Relativity . As part of the research carried out by the 3sat station, an English copy of the film was filmed in 2005 with the British Film Institute, which was provided with English and English language interludes and "speech bubbles". However, the original version of the film is lost. |
1923 | Martha | Walt Disney | United States | A short film made as part of the Laugh-O-Grams series. [6] It is the only film in the Laugh-O-Gram series that is presumed lost. |
1923 | Firpo-Dempsey | Quirino Cristiani | Argentina | A 1923 animated short, directed by Quirino Cristiani. It is a parody of the boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Argentine boxer Luis Ángel Firpo. At the time the picture was very popular with Argentinean audiences. [7] |
1926 | Uproar in the Studio | Wan Laiming and Wan Guchan | China | The short film helped the Wan brothers become recognized as the pioneers of the animation industry in China. |
1928 | The Prince and the Swan Fairy Királyfi és a Hattyútündér | János Halász | Hungary | One of Hungary's earliest animated films. [8] Only a few fragments of this experimental animation remain. [9] |
Year | Film | Director | Country | Notes |
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1931 | Peludópolis | Quirino Cristiani | Argentina | The film was released with a Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronization system soundtrack, making the film generally credited as the first animated feature film with sound. |
1933 | Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka | Kenzō Masaoka | Japan | The first Japanese anime of any type to feature voiceovers. [10] [11] [12] |
1933–36 | The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda | Mikhail and Vera Tsekhanovskaya | Soviet Union | Would have been the Soviet Union's first traditionally animated feature film, but it was abandoned shortly before its completion due to various production difficulties. Most of the film was lost in World War II, with only two and a half minutes surviving. |
1936 | The Adventures of Pinocchio | Raoul Verdini Umberto Spano | Italy | Was supposed to be Italy's first animated feature, but it was never finished and is now thought to be lost. Only the script and a few still images survive. |
1936–39 | St. Francis: Dreams and Nightmares | Berthold Bartosch | France | Berthold Bartosch worked on this feature film in Paris until he fled the city in anticipation of Nazi occupation during World War II. He left the unfinished film at the Cinémathèque Française upon fleeing, but it was destroyed during the occupation. Less than 30 minutes of the film had been completed when it was destroyed. Only a few still images survive. |
Year | Film | Director | Country | Notes |
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1960s–1990s | The Thief and the Cobbler | Richard Williams | U.S./U.K./Canada | Film was taken away from director Richard Williams and released as The Princess and the Cobbler in South Africa and Australia and Arabian Knight in North America; heavily edited versions with much of the already-filmed footage cut out. Unofficial restorations of the original film are available. |
Year | Film | Director | Country | Notes |
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1970s–1980s | The Works | Lance Williams | US | It was meant to be the first computer-animated feature, but was never completed. |
Year | Film | Director | Country | Notes |
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1983 | Roy del espacio | Hector López Carmona, Rafael Ángel Gil and Ulises Pérez Aguirre | Mexico | One of the first feature-length Mexican animated films ever made. [13] [14] Only still images from the film are known to survive. [15] |
1986 | Train Arrival Прибытие поезда (Pribytiye poyezda) | Aleksandr Tatarskiy | Soviet Union | A watercolor-animated feature film begun in 1986 by Aleksandr Tatarskiy – part of the reason for the formation of PILOT Studio, the first private animation studio in the U.S.S.R.. About 40 minutes were finished before hyper-inflation hit Russia in the economic crisis of the late 1990s. The unfinished film was highly praised by several masters of Russian animation who saw it (including Fyodor Khitruk, Yuriy Norshteyn, Eduard Nazarov, Igor Kovalyov and others), before the film materials were lost to three consecutive floods in late 2005. [16] [17] |
Year | Film | Director | Country | Notes |
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1991 | Treasures under a mountain or The Hobbit / Сокровища под Горой | Russia | 1991: The Argus International Animation Studio began to work on this animated movie, based on The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, but soon after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the project was cancelled, and only six minutes were completed. [18] |
Year | Film | Director | Country | Notes |
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2000 | CyberWorld | Colin Davies Elaine Despins | United States | A 2000 American 3D [19] animated anthology film shown in IMAX and IMAX 3D, presented by Intel. The film was cited as the first 3D animated film presented in IMAX, as presented on its website. There are no plans to release the film on home video as of 2023. |
2005 | Empress Chung | Nelson Shin | South Korea North Korea | Since the initial release, aside from few screenings across Europe, the film did not get an international theatrical release or home media release. Nowadays, the only things related to the film that are online is the trailer, sound test animation, some screenshots [20] and a collection of children's books. [21] There has been some evidence to suggest that it was released on DVD in North Korea, but nothing conclusive. [22] [23] |
2007 | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ファントムブラッド (JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken Fantomu Buraddo) | Japan | Based on Part 1 of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series, Phantom Blood . The film was released on February 17, 2007, to commemorate JoJo author Hirohiko Araki's 20th year of publishing. Animation was handled by Studio A.P.P.P. The film had a limited screening in Japanese theaters. While the film remains unreleased on home video, several dozen screenshots exist, as well as roughly 18 minutes of footage in the form of two trailers and a 16-minute collection of various scenes without dialogue. The collection surfaced online in 2012 after allegedly being given out to an Academy of Art University student by their professor (who apparently had connections to those who worked on the film) as part of a sound design project. | |
2009–2011 | Yellow Submarine | Robert Zemeckis | United States | The CGI remake of the 1968 animated Beatles classic film was cancelled following the closure of ImageMovers Digital and the poor box-office results of that studio's last film Mars Needs Moms . Zemeckis considered shopping the remake around to other studios, before he himself gave up on the project. [24] [25] [26] |
Year | Film | Director | Country | Notes |
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2011–2012 | The Power of Zhu/The Secret of Zhu/Journey to GloE | US/Canada | Cepia LLC created The Dream Garden Company for 4 films [27] with distribution by Universal Pictures. [28] On September 27, 2011, the ZhuZhu Pets franchise first full-length feature film Quest for Zhu was released straight-to-DVD. A second full-length feature film, The Power of Zhu, probably in the works and has a trailer, [29] potentially being released on DVD sometime in 2012 as well as a third film The Secret of Zhu that featured the voices of Brad Garrett and Ken Jeong [30] and fourth film Journey to GloE. [31] However, as of February 2014, no other films or even plans for films have been released for The Power of Zhu, although it was completed and was "secretly distributed" to TV stations in France and Brazil under the title Amazing Adventures of Zhu. [32] [33] | |
2010s | Poe | Michael Sporn | US | Animator Michael Sporn was producing and directing an animated feature based the life of Edgar Allan Poe when he died in January 2014. [34] |
2017-2024 | Yuri on Ice the Movie: Ice Adolescence | Sayo Yamamoto | Sayo Yamamoto | A film follow-up for the 2016 anime TV series Yuri on Ice , it was announced in 2017. In 2019, it was announced that the film was delayed. In 2020, a trailer for the film was released. The film was officially announced as being cancelled in April 2024. [35] |
Year | Film | Director | Country | Notes |
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2020 | Kukuriraige: Sanxingdui Fantasy | Fumikazu Satou | Japan | Originally set for release on February 7, 2020 alongside the Jewelpet Attack Travel! anime film, [36] [37] it was eventually delayed indefinitely due to production issues. [38] [39] Attack Travel! would later get a standalone release during a Niconico livestream on May 14, 2022. During that livestream, it was confirmed that Kukurirauge would not be released at any point in the foreseeable future. |
2022 | Scoob! Holiday Haunt | Bill Haller and Michael Kurinsky | United States | Originally scheduled for a December 2022 release on HBO MAX, it was canceled by Warner Bros. Discovery before in August 2022, citing cost-cutting measures and a refocus on theatrical films rather than creating projects for streaming. [40] [41] |
2023 | Coyote vs. Acme | Dave Green | US | In August 2018, Warner Bros. Pictures announced the development of a Wile E. Coyote project, titled Coyote vs. Acme, with The Lego Batman Movie director Chris McKay as producer and Jon and Josh Silberman writing the screenplay and Will Forte cast as Wile E. Coyote. [42] The film was originally scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on July 21, 2023, by Warner Bros. Pictures. [43] On April 26, 2022, it was taken off the release schedule with Barbie taking over its original release date. [44] On November 9, 2023, it was announced that even though the film had been completed, it was shelved with the company taking an approximately $30 million tax write-off. [45] On December 8, Deadline Hollywood further reported that the film had been screened for more studios including Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures. Of these, Netflix and Paramount have made bids, with the latter including a theatrical component; Amazon is still interested despite making no formal bids; and Sony and Apple are not planning to make bids. Since then, no new distributor officially won the rights to the film. [46] On February 9, 2024, TheWrap reported that Warner Bros. has rejected the bids from Netflix, Amazon MGM Studios and Paramount Pictures. Warner Bros. wanted $75-$80 million to sell the film, but the bidders couldn't come up with that, so a Warner Bros. executive said that because of all the problems with this film, Warner Bros. wants to end with this problems and won't sell the film, but will be make this film to a tax loss. [47] |
2024 | Jodie | MTV Entertainment Studios shelved the completed television film in March 2024 instead of airing it on Comedy Central. The company has let the creators attempt to shop it to other studios. [48] |
ZhuZhu Pets is an American line of plush robotic hamster toys created by Cepia LLC in 2009. Multiple spin-off toy lines, including ZhuZhu Puppies and Kung Zhus, have been released.
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