Princess Iron Fan | Tie Shan Gong Zhu (1941) [DivX5, 416p]  

Well I used colormatrix mode Rec.709->Rec.601
I could also crop the right side and the bottom more, but then it would be overcroped like the one offered here and also not widescreen anymore. The black bar on the right is moving, sometimes it fills sometime not, same for the upper black bar.

PS: The first commercial japanese anime was "Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki" (January 1917)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imokawa_Mukuzo_Genkanban_no_Maki
And the oldest japanese anime ever made is "Katsudō Shashin" (1907)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsud%C5%8D_Shashin

Some increase of brightness would not hurt either. Of course, not to the extent it was done in the encode currently being offered.

This article is more or less true and most of the information included is corroborated by other sources. Other titles from 1917 include
Hanawa Hekonai, Mieto no Maki (Sword of Hanawa Hekonai) animated by Kouchi Junichi at Kobayashi Shōkai
and 猿蟹合戦, Sarukani Gassen (sic.) (Battle of a Monkey and a Crab), directed by Kitayama Seitaro.
- all three of these titles, and their dates can be corroborated elsewhere, though none of the films have survived.


This article is decidedly shady and the 1907 claim is widely disputed, the claim is said to have come from excited press reports at the time of the films' discovery. It consists of fifty frames drawn directly onto a strip of celluloid, and has been dated to 'around' 1915 and almost certainly not before the 1914 screening of the French animation, 'Fantasmagorie' by Émile Cohl, which so shocked and impressed Japanese viewers at the time.

Personally, as I did a whole term paper on the subject of anime and manga, I believe that this work deserves to be accepted.  This is singularly the precedent to anime as it is now, and to not include it simply because it isn't Japanese would be a shame.  In fact, this is also histroic as this is the first ever fully animated feature-length film.

Hm?

There is a number of animated feature-length films that were made before Princess Iron Fan.

El Apóstol (The Apostle, Argentina, 1917.) - a lost film
Sin dejar rastros (Without a Trace, Argentina, 1918.) - a lost film
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Germany, 1926.)
Peludópolis (Argentina, 1931.) - a lost film
Novyy Gullivyer (The New Gulliver, Soviet Union, 1935.)
Le roman de Renard (The Tale of the Fox, France, 1937.)
Die sieben Raben (The Seven Ravens, Germany, 1937.)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (USA, 1937.)
Gulliver's Travels (USA, 1939.)
Pinocchio (USA, 1940.)
Fantasia (USA, 1940.)

In fact, this is also historic as this is the first ever fully animated feature-length film made in Asia.

It is not purely animated film.

The film was made almost entirely with the use of puppet animation. Except for the scenes that featured Vladimir Konstantinovich Konstantinov, who played Gulliver.

I know. I watched it.
http://multiki.arjlover.net/multiki/novui.gulliver.avi

Here's a better link.

http://multiki.arjlover.net/info/novui.gulliver.avi.html

After all the debate about this film, it is not Japanese Animation.  But, it is well worth being here.  Too bad the same isn't true of other non-Japanese animation recently presented here.  I was under the impression that Anime from Japan was all this site was permitting. Maybe it should consider other groundbreaking animation from elsewhere, such as Fantastic Planet.l

A small file with some art for the movie: http://ifile.it/g8y904d

Thank you for the find, though it would make more sense as an image archive...  

I don't have original images. I cut that fragment from the other rip of the movie I had.