Lost/unfinished Films
| Film | Country | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Pacala on the Moon |
Romania | 1920: the first Romanian animated movie created by the animator Aurel Petrescu, unfortunately lost. |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Italy | 1936: Was supposed to be Italy's first animated feature, but it was never finished and is now thought to be lost. |
| The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda |
USSR | 1933-36: Directed by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, with music composed by Shostakovich. It would have been the USSR'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 WW2, and the 6-minute market scene stands alone as a classic of Russian animated films. |
| Hong Gil Dong | South Korea | 1967: South Korea's first animated feature (traditional animation). It was known that none of the prints of the film are known to exist in present time, but recently, two copies have been found in Japan. It was being displayed at the gallery, but no one have had noticed that it was considered lost since these days. |
| The Thief and the Cobbler | US | 1960s-1990s: film was taken away from director Richard Williams and released as Arabian Knight and The Princess and the Cobbler; heavily edited versions with much of the already-filmed footage cut out. Unofficial restorations of the original film are available. |
| The Works | US | 1970s-1980s: It was meant to be the first computer animated feature in the world, but was never completed. |
| Rock & Rule | CA | 1984: In the USA, Rock & Rule showed up infrequently on HBO and in 1985, the film was aired on Canada's CBC. CBC wound up with the original print of the film, complete with the original voice actors, a few missing scenes, and a superior audio mix. The original negatives for this version were lost in a fire and the best remaining print source was used, so the quality is sometimes not too great and has imperfections. |
| Treasures under a mountain or The Hobbit / Сокровища под Горой | Russia | 1991: The Argus International Animation Studio begun to work on this animated movie, based on The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, but soon after the disselution of the Soviet Union, only six minutes from the movie was shot, and the movie never completed. |
| Train Arrival |
Russia | A watercolour-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 USSR. About 40 minutes were finished before hyper-inflation hit Russia in 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. |
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