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Tamsin Haggis's avatar

Wow, so interesting, thanks. Did you make the subtitled preview that came up first in Notes?

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Christopher Harding's avatar

Yes, I made it as part of my 'practice' for the upcoming Instagram channel...!

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Tamsin Haggis's avatar

It’s great!

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David Roman's avatar

you call this "one of the first" anime. Which was the first?

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Christopher Harding's avatar

Hi David, the earliest ones were short films going back to at least 1930 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmQs9cKajMs).

Across that decade, some of Japan's best-known cartoon characters made it into animations - like Norakuro the dog (inspired by Felix the Cat): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yso8KmYdUII.

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