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@Princess_Indigo @SelineSigil9 @CentreMyth @ElliottBlackwe3 @BenTheEpicure @RedRiverCroft @EnchantedEzine @AmandaBergloff @GothicBible Have a great weekend, Princess - and everyone else!
To all our friends in Russia, and beyond, if you are celebrating Christmas today, С Рождеством!
#WinterFolklore
'Новогоднее путешествие / The Christmas Visit / The Christmas Tree / New Year's Trip' (1959) dir. Pyotr Nosov.
@MorganScorpion @HorrorSpinsters @JamesUrbaniak @Scottreadsbooks @Glinner @willtij01 @timwaggoner @LadytronMusic @MadameGilflurt @CezarDelValle @min_labyrinth @TheMandelaMovie @boschbot @gentileschi_art @architecturehub @evilbmcats @MobyDickatSea @RedElephantF @_BCT_ Thanks so much for the festive shout-out!
You either know this one, or you don't.
The wolves are running...
#GothicAdvent.
#WinterFolklore
'The Snow Maiden / снегурочка/ Snegurochka' (1952) dir. Ivan Ivanov-Vano
It's re-animated Russian insects getting festive around the tree with Santa; transforming traditional #WinterFolklore into #GothicAdvent...
'The Insects' Christmas / Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa' (1913) dir. Ladislas Starevich.
One of the best snowman films ever made! Animated by the "mother of Czech animation" with her usual remarkable sensitivity:
#WinterFolklore
'Snehulák' (1966) dir. Hermína Týrlová.
In this scene alone we have a corpse, a thief, a ghostly apparition, a fiendish miser and a dreadful portent of doom...
a #GothicAdvent full house.
'A Christmas Carol' (1910) dir. J. Searle Dawley for Edison Manufacturing Company.
During mid-20th century, the General Post Office in UK commissioned short films as reminders for people to "post early for Christmas." This one is by the wonderful Lotte Reiniger ---
'Christmas is Coming' (1951) dir. Lotte Reiniger.
Originally a Ural fairy tale; reworked by Pavel Bazhov & published in 1938 in 'The Malachite Box' & later adapted as a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev - here we have one of the magical caves in:
'The Stone Flower / Kamennyy tsvetok' (1946) dir. Aleksandr Ptushko.