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Emily Velasco

Does anyone out there in the Fediverse have an encyclopedic knowledge of Eastern Bloc cartoons?

My sister text me today to ask if I remembered a cartoon we watched as kids at our grandparents house (1990s Nickelodeon or Cartoon network).

She says it was a cartoon of mice that multiplied in time to the beat of the music that the cartoon was set to.

She says the music was an instrumental version of Arsen Dedic's "Kad bi svi ljudi na svijetu" and that the style of the artwork was similar to the 1961 Yugoslavian animation Surogat.

I have looked high and low on this internet for something that matches this description, and I have found that Arsen Dedic did write music for cartoons at times, like Detelcek from 1973, but I can't find anything about any mice!

I would love to get this mystery solved.

5 Sep 2024 at 23:37 | Open on social.afront.org
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ranjit
Emily Velasco
Pimentoad

@MLE_online @ranjit Off the top of my head I'm not sure.
Klasky Csupo was pretty tight with Nickelodeon for pretty much the entirety of the 90s. I know after they brought in Igor Kovalyov he convinced a lot of other former Soviet artists to come over and they brought their own works with them, some of which got air time in the US.

I'm about to do my cartoon stream thing, but I will do some digging later!

5 Sep 2024 at 23:54 | Open on triangletoot.party
Michael Ossmann

@MLE_online I don't know anything about the cartoon, but I just listened to "Kad bi svi ljudi na svijetu" and immediately recognized the tune as a variation of Skip to My Lou, an American folk tune. I looked up the discography, and Dedić credited the song to Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary). Perhaps something thought to be an instrumental version of the Dedić tune used on an American cartoon was actually an instrumental version of Skip to My Lou?

6 Sep 2024 at 1:59 | Open on mastodon.social
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