This article is about the 1978 adult animated film. For the song by UDD, see UDD (band) §Discography. For the television series by Marissa L. Flores, see Tadhana.
Set before the colonization, zooming and intercutting images of illustrations and maps depict the war between Spain and Portugal for global colonial rights. In preparation to colonize, galleons, led by Ferdinand Magellan, set sail across the Pacific Ocean to the island of the Philippines, where it declares war with armadas against the Filipino natives (Star Wars's main theme) led by Lapu-Lapu (Villame), lops off Magellan's head.
Nonoy Marcelo (left) and Imee Marcos (right) worked together to contribute the film for the sixth anniversary.
After his first interest of animation filmmaking in the Philippines while working on as a cartoonist, he was hired by the government and worked in animation at the National Media Production Center beginning in 1977.[9] Then, he collaborated with Imee Marcos, who first sought to contribute the 1977 short documentary film Da Real Makoy,[10][11] and his uncle José Zabala-Santos by creating the first-ever full-length animated film in the Philippines, which originally conceived as a television pilot that sought to teach the nation's history from the perspective of the Marcos administration.[12]
While writing and directed the film, he added his own interpretation of this history as a series of vignettes, including whimsical, satirical, sometimes subversive and particularly anti-clerical touches to the narrative.[13] Imee insists that while it was not only a literally faithful adaptation of her father's books, it was faithful to their themes.[8]
Filming
The animation studio was set up in Quezon City to highlighting the strategic focus placed on the project.[14] The film took production in three months, employed with a team of sixty artists, including printmaker Pandy Aviado, served as the film’s animator and assistant director, and Santiago Bose, by Imee. Some production crews and artists also voiced for the film including Aviado and Marcelo himself.[14] Unlike many animated features filmed in 24 frames per second, the film's animation is entirely limited with panoramic drawings.
An excerpt title of the film found from Huling Ptyk: Da Art of Nonoy Marcelo.
Following the immense success of Tadhana and the "turning point" of Philippine animation as a labor hub in the 1980s, it was initiative of broadcasting catered to a broad audience and embedded the film within the popular cultural milieu of the time.[16] Due to lack of commercial release in local theaters, the film was never credited to be the first animated film in the Philippines until Adarna: The Mythical Bird in 1997.[4][5]
None of copies of known print or negative 35mm film left in archive from GMA after one-time broadcast until two decades later, only a video copy recorded off that broadcast by Mr. Teddy Co, who lent the copy to Mowelfund Film Institute.[8]
1 2 3 Mayuga, Sylvia L. (2005). "Chapter 5: Dancing With The Dictator". Huling Ptyk: Da Art of Nonoy Marcelo. The House Printers Corporation. pp.65–84. Drawing board to our country's first full-length animation by Nonoy Marcelo.
1 2 Aviado, Pandy (2005). "Isang Balik-tingin sa Pagsasa-Animation ng Tadhana". Huling Ptyk: Da Art of Nonoy Marcelo. The House Printers Corporation. pp.75–78.
↑ Mayuga, Sylvia L. (2005). "Revisiting Da Real Makoy". Huling Ptyk: Da Art of Nonoy Marcelo. The House Printers Corporation. pp.68–69. The two Nonoy Marcelo and Egay Navarro] managed to push the limits, casually capturing their producer Imee [Marcos] smoothing the way with coy Barbie-doll eyes.
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