Croatia Film d.o.o. (formerly Croatia Film d.d.) is a state-owned film production and distribution company based in Zagreb, Croatia. It began operations in 1946, [1] when Croatia was part of the former nation of Yugoslavia.[ citation needed ]
The company produced the region's only animated features to date during the 1980s and 1990s, all directed by Milan Blažeković: The Elm-Chanted Forest , The Magician's Hat , and Lapitch the Little Shoemaker . [2] [3] [4]
Croatia Film was also involved in two animated television series: a spin-off of Lapitch in 2000, [5] [6] and the satirical Laku noć, Hrvatska (Good Night, Croatia) from 2005.
In the U.S. end credits of The Elm-Chanted Forest, Croatia Film's name was spelled as one word. [7]
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić was a Croatian writer. She has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
Milan Blažeković was a Croatian animator.
The cinema of Croatia has a somewhat shorter tradition than what is common for other Central European countries: the serious beginning of Croatian cinema starts with the rise of the Yugoslavian film industry in the 1940s. Three Croatian feature films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, several of them gained awards at major festivals, and the Croatian contribution in the field of animation is particularly important.
Lapitch the Little Shoemaker is a 1997 animated feature that was originally released by Croatia Film. Produced on vintage cel equipment during the early 1990s, this was the third feature from Croatia Film's animation unit and director Milan Blažeković, after The Elm-Chanted Forest (1986) and The Magician's Hat (1990).
The International Animated Film Association is an international non-profit organization founded in 1960 in Annecy, France, well-known animation artists, including Canadian animator Norman McLaren. There are now more than 30 chapters of the Association located in many countries of the world.
GT Media, Inc. was an American home video company that originated in 1984 under the name of GoodTimes Home Video. Though it produced its own titles, the company was well known due to its distribution of media from third parties and classics. The founders for the company were the brothers Kenneth, Joseph and Stanley Cayre of Salsoul Records. Its headquarters were in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company had a distribution facility in Jersey City, New Jersey and a duplication facility in Bayonne, New Jersey.
The Elm-Chanted Forest is a 1986 Croatian-American animated musical film; in the U.S., it is also known as Fantasy Forest. It was the first full-length film directed by Milan Blažeković, and also the first animated feature produced in Croatia and Yugoslavia.
Zagreb school of animated films is a style of animation originating from Zagreb and Croatia, most notably Zagreb Film. It is represented by authors like Nikola Kostelac, Vatroslav Mimica, Dušan Vukotić and Vladimir Kristl. The term was coined by Georges Sadoul.
The Brave Adventures of Lapitch, also known as The Marvellous Adventures of Lapich the Apprentice, is a 1913 novel by Croatian children's author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić.
The Magician's Hat is a 1990 animated film produced by the Croatia Film company and directed by Milan Blažeković. It is the sequel to 1986's The Elm-Chanted Forest.
Lapitch the Little Shoemaker is an animated television series from Croatia Film and EM.TV/HaffaDiebold, with animation by Neptuno Films of Barcelona, Spain. It is a spin-off from the 1997 film of the same name.
Božidarka Frajt is a Croatian actress.
Events in 1940 in animation.
Gordan Lederer was a Croatian photographer and Croatian Radiotelevision cameraman killed during the Croatian War of Independence.
SIP Animation was a French animation studio, and a defunct subsidiary of Saban Entertainment. By 2009, the company had produced over 390 hours of animated content.
Zdenko Blažeković was a Croatian fascist official who held several posts in the World War II genocidal Ustaše regime in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). He was the student commissar at the Ustaše University Centre (USS), leader of the male Ustaše Youth organisation and a sports commissioner in the NDH.
Sunčana Škrinjarić was a Croatian writer, poet and journalist. She became known by writing children's books, such as “Kaktus bajke”, “Pisac i vrijeme”, “Slikar u šumi”, “Pisac i princeza”, “Ulica predaka” and “Kazališna kavana".
TV-Loonland AG was a German branding and management company that specialized in the production of children's programmes. The company's offices were located in Europe. The company's mascot is a sheep on a blue dome.
HaffeDiebold[ sic ] and Croatia Film let Lapitch loose