BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film

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Just a heads-up before I carry on with this one - the BAFTA database doesn't name the films' directors for several early years. In most cases it was pretty simple to dig the names up from IMDB or BCDB, but so far a few films have had to go uncredited.

The only lead I've got for 1954's Little Brave Heart is its entry in the BFI database, which has a brief synopsis and the name of the studio ("Moscow Cartoon Film Studios"). I tried to find information on that studio but it's a near Googlewhack, with no hits outside the BFI site.

Still, I cross-referenced the BFI's filmography with this handy database of Russian animation, and I'm now fairly sure that the studio is in fact Soyuzmultfilm. I have a hunch that the film in question is The Brave Man's Heart - it came out at around the same time, and judging by the pictures the protagonist is a young boy, so "Little Brave Heart" seems a plausible alternate title. But alas, unless I have anything concrete I can't really put any of this information on the Wiki.

Meanwhile, "Love and the Sepplin" is another near-Googlewhack. I have a suspicion that the name should be Love and the Zeppelin, which two sites give as the English title for this Czechoslovakian cartoon.

And finally, the 1957 nominee The Magic Flute would seem to be an episode of Gumby that aired that year. Seems odd that a single episode of a TV series qualified for a film award, though...

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Okay, I looked at the IMDB's BAFTA pages, and found some information.

Little Brave Heart isn't in the database, so no help there. The only new information is that the film was made in 1954 - but I'd take that with a grain of salt. All of the nominees that aren't in the database seem to be labelled with the year of the award, suggesting that whoever typed this up just bunged in the most likely-sounding year. Quite a few of the foreign-language films came out some time before they won BAFTAS, and Little Brave Heart could easily be one of them.

Love and the Sepplin is listed as "Love and the Seppelin", although this title doesn't turn up anything useful on Google - just more sites covering the BAFTAS. IMDB also says that the film is from Czechoslovakia. At this point I'm pretty certain that the film in question is actually Love and the Zeppelin, AKA Laska A Vzducholod, AKA An Airship and Love. But the question is, can I say so on the article? Over at Wikipedia this'd qualify as original research, which is frowned upon in those parts.

For the Magic Flute, though, I think the mystery's solved. According to IMDB this film is actually The Magic Fluke, a John Hubley short. Show of hands - do we go with IMDB, or the BAFTA database?

One last thing - IMDB says that The Travelling Rune, one of the films I added to the page today, is from Holland. That's all I've got.