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Topic: a 1941 German animated film called snowmanCHNEEMANN
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 12, 2015 10:41 AM
I've always wanted a print of this one. If it was color and sound I'd be all over it. Black and white and silent is two degrees of separation from the original, and at least one too many for me.
This is a Hans Fischerkoesen film. He was a commercial cartoonist who happened to be available when the Nazi government decided they needed a German Disney equivalent, so he went from doing advertisements to full theatrical cartoons for a couple of years, and they were very good and surprisingly apolitical given the people that were paying the bills!
I have a print of "Weatherbeaten Melody", which other than some negative damage in the first 30 seconds is a really great cartoon. Der Schneemann is one I've only seen on YouTube, but have been looking around for a Super-8 print ever since.
We are judged by the company we keep, so Hans Fischerkoesen spent a while in a Soviet interment camp at the end of the War. He was eventually released and returned to advertising.
I have two short reels of Ads. he did for the German service station chain ARAL and they are great: nice animation, good music, early 1960s Volkswagens and Mercedes Benzes.
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 969
From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted June 13, 2015 06:22 AM
Steven,are those ad reels in super 8? And who issued them?
I have both "WEATHERED MELODY" and "THE SNOWMAN",plus another one,TANZTEE, b&w from the early thirties,a long commercial with lots of early thirties mice in it. It is (or, was) available from Phil Sheard,who never bothered to advertise it properly,if at all.It is even misspelled as "Tanzee" in his lists. I have never seen a review of it anywhere,or it listed in second hand lists. Perhaps I was the only one who bought it (!) and it was the last film I ever bought new.
I am not sure if the b&w silent copy on ebay is of the Fischerkoesen film or of the earlier one by Ted Eschbaugh.
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