Painted in 1888, it was first screened on 28 October 1892 using the
Théâtre Optique process, which allowed him to project a hand-painted colored film, before the invention of
cinematograph. No copy exists, as Reynaud threw all but two of his picture bands into the
Seine river as he was suffering of
depression at that time.[1]
Was thought to have been discovered at a flea market at the
Shitennō-ji temple in Osaka in 2007, but the discovered film later turned out to be another unknown work because a plot description and a series of
stills of the 1918 film that differed considerably from the discovered film were found in a contemporary magazine.[5]
A partly animated
documentary film created with the goal of bringing
Einstein's theory of relativity to the broad public. Part of the film was used to create
Max Fleischer's The Einstein Theory of Relativity. As part of the research carried out by the 3sat station, an English copy of the film was filmed in 2005 with the
British Film Institute, which was provided with English and English language interludes and "speech bubbles". However, the original version of the film is lost.
A 1923 animated short, directed by
Quirino Cristiani. It is a parody of the boxing match between
Jack Dempsey and Argentine boxer
Luis Ángel Firpo. At the time the picture was very popular with Argentinean audiences.[7]
The film was released with a
Vitaphonesound-on-disc synchronization system soundtrack, making the film generally credited as the first animated feature film with sound.
Would have been the Soviet Union'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
World War II, with only two and a half minutes surviving.
Was supposed to be Italy's first animated feature, but it was never finished and is now thought to be lost. Only the script and a few still images survive.
Berthold Bartosch worked on this feature film in
Paris until he fled the city in anticipation of
Nazi occupation during World War II. He left the unfinished film at the
Cinémathèque Française upon fleeing, but it was destroyed during the occupation. Less than 30 minutes of the film had been completed when it was destroyed. Only a few still images survive.
Film was taken away from director
Richard Williams and released as The Princess and the Cobbler in
South Africa and
Australia and Arabian Knight in
North America; heavily edited versions with much of the already-filmed footage cut out. Unofficial restorations of the original film are available.
A watercolor-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 U.S.S.R.. About 40 minutes were finished before
hyper-inflation hit Russia in the
economic crisis of 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.[16][17]
1990s
Year
Film
Director
Country
Notes
1991
Treasures under a mountain or The Hobbit / Сокровища под Горой
1991: The Argus International Animation Studio began to work on this animated movie, based on The Hobbit by
J.R.R. Tolkien, but soon after the
dissolution of the Soviet Union, the project was cancelled, and only six minutes were completed.[18]
A 2000 American
3D[19]animatedanthology film shown in
IMAX and
IMAX 3D, presented by Intel. The film was cited as the first
3D animated film presented in IMAX, as presented on its website. There are no plans to release the film on home video as of 2023.
Since the initial release, aside from few screenings across Europe, the film did not get an international theatrical release or home media release. Nowadays, the only things related to the film that are online is the trailer, sound test animation, some screenshots[20] and a collection of children's books.[21] There has been some evidence to suggest that it was released on DVD in North Korea, but nothing conclusive.[22][23]
Based on Part 1 of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series, Phantom Blood. The film was released on February 17, 2007, to commemorate JoJo author
Hirohiko Araki's 20th year of publishing. Animation was handled by
Studio A.P.P.P. The film had a limited screening in Japanese theaters. While the film remains unreleased on home video, several dozen screenshots exist, as well as roughly 18 minutes of footage in the form of two trailers and a 16-minute collection of various scenes without dialogue. The collection surfaced online in 2012 after allegedly being given out to an
Academy of Art University student by their professor (who apparently had connections to those who worked on the film) as part of a sound design project.
2010s
Year
Film
Director
Country
Notes
2011–2012
The Power of Zhu/The Secret of Zhu/Journey to GloE
Cepia LLC created The Dream Garden Company for 4 films[24] with distribution by
Universal Pictures.[25] On September 27, 2011, the
ZhuZhu Pets franchise first full-length feature film Quest for Zhu was released
straight-to-DVD. A second full-length feature film, The Power of Zhu, probably in the works and has a trailer,[26] potentially being released on DVD sometime in 2012 as well as a third film The Secret of Zhu that featured the voices of
Brad Garrett and
Ken Jeong[27] and fourth film Journey to GloE.[28] However, as of February 2014, no other films or even plans for films have been released for The Power of Zhu, although it was completed and was "secretly distributed" to TV stations in France and Brazil under the title Amazing Adventures of Zhu.[29][30]
Originally set for release on February 7, 2020 alongside the Jewelpet Attack Travel! anime film,[32][33] it was eventually delayed indefinitely due to production issues.[34][35]Attack Travel! would later get a standalone release during a
Niconico livestream on May 14, 2022. During that livestream, it was confirmed that Kukurirauge would not be released at any point in the foreseeable future.
Originally scheduled for a December 2022 release on
HBO MAX, it was canceled by
Warner Bros. Discovery before in August 2022, citing cost-cutting measures and a refocus on theatrical films rather than creating projects for streaming.[36][37]
In August 2018,
Warner Bros. Pictures announced the development of a
Wile E. Coyote project, titled Coyote vs. Acme, with The Lego Batman Movie director
Chris McKay as producer and Jon and Josh Silberman writing the screenplay and
Will Forte cast as Wile E. Coyote.[38] The film was originally scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on July 21, 2023, by
Warner Bros. Pictures.[39] On April 26, 2022, it was taken off the release schedule with Barbie taking over its original release date.[40] On November 9, 2023, it was announced that even though the film had been completed, it was shelved with the company taking an approximately $30 million tax write-off.[41]
On December 8, Deadline Hollywood further reported that the film had been screened for more studios including
Paramount Pictures and
Sony Pictures. Of these, Netflix and Paramount have made bids, with the latter including a theatrical component; Amazon is still interested despite making no formal bids; and Sony and Apple are not planning to make bids. Since then, no new distributor officially won the rights to the film.[42] On February 9, 2024, TheWrap reported that Warner Bros. has rejected the bids from
Netflix,
Amazon MGM Studios and
Paramount Pictures. Warner Bros. wanted $75-$80 million to sell the film, but the bidders couldn't come up with that, so a Warner Bros. executive said that because of all the problems with this film, Warner Bros. wants to end with this problems and won't sell the film, but will be make this film to a
tax loss.[43]
^"알라딘: 검색결과 '왕후심청'" [Aladin: Search results 'Empress Simcheong']. Aladin (in Korean).
Archived from the original on January 15, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
^Gardner, Eriq (August 3, 2015).
"Universal Sued for "Secretly" Distributing Children's Film Overseas". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2 January 2018. Through its own investigation, Cepia learned that Universal International had distributed the Amazing Adventures of Zhu to at least two television broadcasters without Cepia's knowledge or approval." Cepia adds that the "unilateral actions were especially harmful" because the television airings in Brazil and France "destroyed the potential DVD/Blu-Ray market" and further, "led to its availability on the Internet for free download.