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Go check out the full test for Studio Ghibli director Yoshifumi Kondo’s take on an animated Little Nemo in Slumberland. It’s amazing:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=3342755205038857742<\/a><\/p>\n And if you want to see a higher quality video (that mysteriously has about a minute of footage cut out of it…) check out:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fnL-6yLzgWA<\/a><\/p>\n It’s pretty darned cool.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Edit: <\/strong>I decided to do a little more digging about this film clip, and found out something interesting. According to Nausicaa.net<\/strong><\/a>, one of the best fan-sites around (and devoted entirely to Studio Ghibli):<\/p>\n “Little Nemo” was an American\/Japanese joint project, and [Hayao] Miyazaki and [Isao] Takahata were involved in the pre-production stage during 1982 and 1983. However, due to creative differences with the American producers, both quit the project. It was finally made into a movie with different staff members and released in 1989…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The film is currently out of print though it was apparently released on DVD in 2005… It was originally released on laser disc, and as a bonus, the laser disc includes two early animation tests for the film…<\/p>\n So it seems likely that this clip is from the Japanese LD release… I wonder if the test by Osamu Dezaki is available online as well? I’ve done a cursory search, but no luck.<\/p>\nThere is a rumor that two pilot films in the Japanese “Nemo” LD box set were done by Miyazaki and Takahata, but they were actually done by Yoshifumi KONDOU and Osamu DEZAKI, respectively.<\/div>\n