I seem to remember films like this playing frequently on local commercial broadcast stations back in the 1970s and ’80s, although I don’t recall which ones I might have seen back then. Five of the titles under discussion here were directed by Leif Gram.
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Most of them were based on English literary works and were adapted for animation by John Palmer, who does a pretty good job of condensing complex historical adventure narratives into 48-minute films designed for one-hour syndicated TV slots on Sunday afternoons during holiday seasons. I then decided to watch the rest of the films in the Classic Adventures set and devote a blog entry to the seven titles from API that I hadn’t previously written about. This time, I was compelled to check out the rest after I watched “The Legend of Robin Hood” (1971) from this set, a viewing prompted by my curiosity to see an animated version after I watched several episodes of the old black-and-white live-action British TV series, “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1955-60), which starred Richard Greene as Robin and which I used to watch on TV as a kid.
I watched a few of these some years ago and even did blog entries on two of them, “Swiss Family Robinson” and “Call of the Wild,” in both of which I compared them to anime versions of the same stories from Japan.Īnd I watched “Ben-Hur” around the same time. Eight of the ten were produced in the 1970s by an Australian company called Air Programs International (aka API Television Production) and share key creative personnel and voice actors, accounting for stylistic similarities among the eight.
I have a box set of “Classic Adventures,” consisting of ten 48-minute animated adaptations of classic literary adventures, nine based on novels and one based on a true-life account.
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