Жүктеп алу "Gigantor Who? Roots of Kids Anime Robots - Restored Original Japan 1956 Anime with 1963 English Trak"

The original Gigantor series was actually called Tetsujin 28-go when it was released in Japan in 1956. Then Fred Ladd had the idea of dubbing this strange (to US audiences) half hour cartoon series into English, packaging it with Speed Racer and searching for a US and Canadian Distributor. He found the Peter Rodgers Organization and made a deal. The US version with English language and edited for violence debut on US Television in 1964. Kids loved Gigantor and made it an instant hit, but parents hated it, protested the violence and widely laughed at it for the terrible English script and the feeling the voice actors had no idea what they were actually saying. The other problem with this series is that in Japan it was already going on 10 years old, and was very dated to them. It was being eclipsed by The Big World of Little Adam later called Astro Boy in the US. You can see how this series evolved into Astro Boy, the boy in this series that controlled Gigantor with a remote control (Huge and Tesla like) simply became Astro Boy the Boy Robot. Interesting Trivia fact is that this same group under Fred Ladd were the ones working on Pinocchio in Outer Space, a movie also available on this channel. The difference with Astro Boy was Ladd formed a company with Al Singer called Delphi Associates, Inc - and hired much better Voice Over actors! Bottom line was that there were 52 episodes of Gigantor made in Japan in the 1950s and it did not matter how much of a hit is was in the US Mitsutru Yokoyama had moved on to Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion and Gigantor was done! It was soon lost to time. A new series for Gigantor was produced in Japan in 1980 and later dubbed into English (better this time) but only got as far as Sci-Fi Channel from 1993 to 1997 as part of their midnight cartoon hour. Another twist in the Gigantor story was in July of 1994, Fox Family Films, a division of 20th Century Fox acquired the rights to do a live action "Gigantor" motion picture with an anticipated budget of over 50 million dollars! the executive producers were Fred Ladd and Aeiji Katayama and Mitsuteru Yokoyama the original Japanese company that originally developed Gigantor in the 1950s. Wonder where the movie is? Well it is one of those Hollywood stories, the funding was pulled when the Speed Racer movie ran over budget to south of 100 million and took in less than 14 mill at the box office. Then Mitsuteru went bankrupt, and the other executive producers simply went away. last bit of trivia, do the names Fred Ladd and Al Singer sound familiar, look the history of Filmation in LA. Maybe that is why so many series form Filmation have been compared to minimalist anima - it was there roots! OK one more bit of trivia: even though Tetsujin 28-go, the original name of Gigantor series literally translates to Iron Man - but even though the series was first published in 1956, there was no burn convention, so Marvel Comics has a few things to say about its US name, Iron Man (our Iron Man in the US that we all know and love) was originally released in 1963 and predated the 1964 publishing of this series so the US copyright could not be Iron Man thus the name Gigantor, that name has absolutely nothing to do with the original series, as well the scripts do not actually fallow the same plot in Japan that they do here in the US. What we did to make this very nice version of: Gigantor Who? Roots of Kids Anime Robots - Restored Original Japan 1956 Anime with 1963 English Trak: The Copies I am working from are from the 1956 series in Japan, with the violence left in, it is not violent at all compared to US cartoons today! But here you see how the series was intended to look on TV when it was sent from Japan for its US TV run, however what you saw in the us, and her on YouTube was an edited version of these cartoons, with much of the "violence" removed to satisfy the 1964 era censors! This is not the best anima TV ever made, but is is the first show made specifically for TV, not the first in the US the first in the World, 1956, the year before I was born! Thomas R Reich PhD Cartoon Crazys Channel