Dōbutsu Olympic Taikai

Anime movie
title	Dōbutsu Olympic Taikai
Original title	動物オリムピック大会
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Publishing year	1928
Studio	Yokohama Cinema Shōkai
genre	Comedy
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Director	Yasuji Murata

Dōbutsu Olympic Taikai ( Japanese 動物オリムピック大会 , German about "Olympic Games of the Animals") is an anime short film from 1928. The comedy, created in black and white and as a silent film, is also known as the Animal Olympic Games or Animal Olympics , although it received no contemporary publication outside of Japan. The film is considered the first clearly recognizable sports anime . Even if sport was already featured in older productions, the topic is central in Dōbutsu Olympic Taikai for the first time.

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At the Olympic Games of Animals, a wide variety of animal species compete in the sporting disciplines. Monkeys do gymnastics on the horizontal bar, bears and hippos swim and kangaroos and pigs box against each other. In the 800-meter run, a duck wins against a bulldog, a hippopotamus and a camel. A polar bear competes in the pole vault and the pigs try to gain an advantage in the hurdles with balloons, but crash.

Production and publication

The film was inspired by the games in Amsterdam that same year . It was created in Yasuji Murata's film studio Yokohama Cinema Shōkai , Murata himself was director and responsible for animation. The work is considered to be his most important. The screenplay was written by Chūzō Aochi and the animators were Koji Iida and Yukikiyo Ueno.

The film was approved by the Japanese censors on November 4, 1928 and then shown in Japanese cinemas.

Web links

Entry at Anime News Network (English)
Dōbutsu Olympic Taikai in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 607 .
↑ Jonathan Clements : Anime - A History . Palgrave Macmillan 2013. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-84457-390-5 .
↑ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 432 .

[s607-1] Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 607 .

[clements2013-2] Jonathan Clements : Anime - A History . Palgrave Macmillan 2013. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-84457-390-5 .

[s432-3] Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 432 .