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Harry Wild (2022)
Disappointing
The premise of the series sounds good, but the stories are not well developed. The plots have an artificial structure.
Short cuts and sheer coincedances are made to finish the story within the 50 minutes time frame.
In the first episode a reference to an obscure play from the 16th Century are made and only Harry (a retired professor in Literature) sees the connection. In another episode she is an expert in Russian Literature with connections to Dostojevski, and Harry is the only person to make the links As she suddenly sees the connection with a corpse found in the water with a WW2 operation.
There is potential but they should expand the episodes and remove those artificial shortcuts.
La rosa di Bagdad (1949)
La Rosa di Bagdad: digitally restored
Based upon the Stories of 101 Nights this is a simple tale.
A young musician, Amin, who secretly is in love the singing princess Zeila. He steals a magic ring from the caliph's adviser Jafar, made for him by the sorcerer Burk. Amin is caught and physically changed, so no one recognizes him. An old lady, Fatima, gives him Aladdin's lamp with the ghost, with whom he saves the princess from the spell of the ring and out of the hands of Jafar.
The animation is inspired by Disney's "Snow White" and "Pinocchio". The backgrounds are beautiful, thanks to Technicolor. They are paintings of themselves.
Recently digitally remastered and available with Italian sound and subtitles. Some releases claim to have English subtitles, as well. as an extra a documentary on the making of this animation (in war time), no subtitles here.