Lost and Cancelled Animated Films

Release Date: 1917

The first animated feature film in history, it was produced in Argentina and was a political satire of the then president Hipólito Yrigoyen.
The film and all its recorded copies were apparently destroyed in a fire during 1926, and the rest of the celluloids from the tapes were reused to make combs.
During a subsequent interview, director Quirino Cristiani showed how he managed to create the animations for his film, which gives us an idea of what the finished film looked like.

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Date: 1967

Lost film made by the Toei animation studio, based on a puppet show broadcast on television in the 60s.
The film follows the adventures on an island called Gourd Island where dogs and humans face off in a war, this plot in turn is based on one of the arcs of this puppet show.
This film was broadcast a few times on Japanese television, but for a long time it would not be broadcast, the film resurfaced in 2010 thanks to someone who uploaded it on YouTube, unfortunately the film would be removed making it impossible to access it.
Some stills from the film were reused in a children's book that came out some time later where the story of the film was told.
In terms of videos, only the opening credits and ending credits recorded directly from television are counted.

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Date: 1983

Film directed by Héctor López Carmona, famous for being one of the first Mexican animated feature films in history.
This tape was drawn by architectural professionals; However, almost no one had experience working with animation, there have been testimonies that the film's director, Héctor Lopez, was unprofessional, having only experience as a cameraman.
The film with difficulties was released in 1983 in 12 theaters around Mexico City, unfortunately the public and the press did not give their approval to the film, mainly they described it as having a very poor animation and script, it was even He even pointed out that some frames were copied from the Flash Gordon series.
One of the most blunt and famous opinions was the one given by the animation expert Fernando Ruiz who commented: "There were five people in the room and after a while only me was left, and that was obligatory because I dedicate myself to this."
It is currently known that the original negatives of the film remain in the National Cinematheque of Mexico, but the rights belong to the widow of Pérez Aguirre, one of the film's writers, with whom unfortunately an agreement for the release has not been established. tape digitization.

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Date: 2000

Anthology film projected in theaters, being the first CGI animated film made to be seen with a 3D effect.
Most segments of the film can be found easily, because the film is mostly made up of segments from series, short films and other films that were made with CGI.
What is really missing from this feature film are the transitions between shorts, in addition to 2 short films that have not been published on the internet or in any other medium, these being: "Flipbook and Waterfall City" by Satoshi Kitahara and "Tonight's Performance" by REZN8.
Currently, the film has only been screened at a few events and exhibitions, so it is hoped that at some point the material will have a chance to resurface.

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Date: 2003

CGI film based on a video game with the same name created by Namco, the film was produced by Groove Corporation and in 2002 was released in Japanese cinemas, however, the film was never released in home format, so it is currently lost.
10 minutes of it are available on a DVD thanks to the fact that at the Tokyo International Anime Fair in May, as part of the advertising campaign, a DVD was released that included 10 minutes of it, however this DVD is currently also lost.
Additionally, Namco's official YouTube channel, during a special video about the video game Xevius, showed fragments of these films, suggesting that they still have said material.

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Date: 2009

Based on the Freaky Flickers toys, it was a film directed by Cary Howe.
The film followed the adventures of Aargh, a pirate with a mission to obtain treasure in order to pay a debt.
Initially the film would be a television series, but it was decided to convert it into a direct-to-DVD feature film, although it was later decided that it would also be released in some theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The most incredible thing about the matter is that this movie intended for theaters was being written, directed and animated by a single person.
When Cary Howe, during one night, left the editing in the hands of his partner David Kann, during the night the creator of the original Freaky Flickers, Peter Gantner, would have stolen all the copies of the tape and the production equipment, possibly in an attempt to sabotage it. , since much is unknown about this event.
A lot of material about it could be recovered on the film's website, from images to videos.

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Date: 2009

Mexican film directed by Benito Fernandez at the animation studio Ithrax Producciones.
The film sought to have a more mature tone compared to the majority of Mexican animated films that were released in the country, unfortunately in the future this would be a problem when distributing the film, since no company wanted to release it in Mexico, because they were afraid of release a more adult animation.
The idea for the film was initially the idea for a comic, but the creator Benito Fernandez instead decided to venture into capturing his animated story, which is set in the year 1490 where a noble merchant dies during a trip, but is resurrected 700 years ago. Years in the future transformed into a vampire.
This film combined the mythology of vampires and werewolves with a futuristic setting.
Although the film was not released, a board game inspired by the film was launched as part of the marketing campaign.
Later, the creator would work on 2 films, these being "Brijes 3D" and "Uma and Haggen", the director during an interview in 2021 commented that if his new film Uma and Haggen received enough support, he would try to relaunch Sabel Redemption

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Date: 2010

Dreaming Machine was a film that Satoshi Kon would direct before his death on August 24, 2010. The film would later be taken up by the Mad House studio. However, despite having storyboard notes made by Satoshi Kon, the film did not could be finished.
The project has not been completely cancelled, Maruyama revealed that the project will be picked up when a director talented enough to take it up is found, but in Japan there is no director who can match Satoshi Kon's talent for directing.
The film would be a road movie about 3 robots traveling in a world where humans no longer exist.
Some concept art was revealed over time, some were included in the French documentary "Satoshi Kon: la machine à rêves"

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Date: 2010

Educational film with a duration of 28 minutes, only published in the Miraikan Museum in Tokyo, Japan.
The film is about a girl named Nozomi who, during her vacation, must learn with the help of her grandmother about how iPS cells work.

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Date: 1940s - 2000s

Date: 1979-1986

If this film had been released, it could have been the first film made entirely in CGI animation, years before Toy Stroy did it.
The film follows the adventures of a pilot named Beeper who lives in a universe where all of humanity was destroyed during a third world war. The pilot will try to fulfill the mission of finding a surviving human being to share the history and knowledge of humanity.

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Date: Sometime in the 80s

Bobby's Girl would be a collaborative film between animators Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi parodying teen movies from the 80s.
The film was presented to the president of TriStar at the time, named Jeff Sagansky, who accepted the project and gave them a budget of $150,000. Unfortunately, when Jeff left his position and was replaced, they could not convince the new president to continue with the production of the film, being definitively cancelled.

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Date:1983

Project organized by Jhon Lasseter, who in 1983 had the idea of adapting the book "Where the Wild Things Are", Lasseter presented this idea to disney and one of the great innovations would be to present the film with 2D characters, but the scenarios would be rendered with 3D animation.
This animation TEST was shown on disney channel, and had the approval of both the public and the studio, which was impressed by this test; however, the film was canceled for unknown reasons, fortunately for lasseter time later had the opportunity to work in the Pixar Animation studio so the film of Where the Wild Things Are was set aside.

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Date: 1990-2000

Canceled film produced by Disney and developed by The Secret Lab studio, loosely based on the 1913 play Pygmalion, the film had different problems during its development, the team planned to give the film a more mature touch compared to the other Disney movies.
The fate of the film was marked when the vice president of Disney at the time, Roy Disney, was horrified when they showed it in the first animation test. He especially found a joke unpleasant where two homosexuals entered a sewer while one mentioned "have you ever been down a manhole before?"
Likewise, the Secret Lab studio closed after the failure of the Dinosaurs movie in 2000, definitively closing any opportunity to see Wild Life in action.

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Date: 1993

The film was devised by Richard Fleisher, the son of Max Fleischer who was the original creator of Bett Boop, the film would be a complete tribute to the entire Betty Boop franchise, and it would be a musical in which Betty Boop would look for a way to return to reunite with his lost father, with whom he starred in shows in his childhood.
The script for the film was completed, voices were recorded, and everything was about to enter the production process, but unfortunately problems arose during its development, among them, the change of the owner of the MGM company Cheryl Ernst Wells who supervised the development of the film, being replaced by Frank Mancuso. That added to the fact that Betty Boop's legal problems were distributed among 3 different properties, with which it was impossible to reach an agreement and ended up being imminently canceled.

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Date: 1998

Date: 2008

This film began production at the end of 2008, and would be a film based on the Wizard of Oz book, produced by The Magic Roundabout (Known for the infamous Doogal movie), and would be directed by John Boortman (Known for films like Excalibur , Deliverance and The Exorcist 2 ), this film being his first animated feature film.
The film was canceled just as The Magic Roundabout went bankrupt and was in a pre-production phase, and many concept arts and 3D models have been revealed thanks to artists Robert Nageli and Ariu Jean-Marc.

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