Treasure Island (1988 film)

Treasure Island Ukrainian , Ostriv skarbiv Russian , Ostrov sokrovishch is a 1988 Soviet animated film in two parts based on the novel with the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. While the film combines traditional animation and live action, it does it in a very different way than the American film Who Framed Roger Rabbit which was also filmed in 1988, by predominantly incorporating live action sequences as episodes into the movie, as opposed to having a relatively seamless filmed picture with a number of handdrawn characters added into it.

Treasure Island was a product of collaboration of the two very well known people in the USSR David Cherkassky, a director, who, at the time of inception, produced a number of very popular cartoons, and Radna Sakhaltuev, a cartooninst, who had at that point in time a long and fruitful history of collaboration with David Cherkassky, as well as a history of being a cartoonist for a number of satirical magazines in Kyiv, where he became well known for his distinctive style. Their previous collaboration yielded some very fruitful results, including the cartoons about the Adventures of Captain Vrungel a Russian tall tales of the sea kind of book and Doctor Aybolit a more childrencentric cartoon. This allowed the duo to build up a reputation that allowed some extra freedom during their future work, and this credit was fully exploited during Treasure Island adaptation, which was very liberal as far as Soviet cartoons went.A distinctive feature of the cartoon was the inclusion of live action musical pauses songs, that were acted out by live actors, that explained, for example, why it is a bad idea to drink alcohol or smoke or why Jim Hawkins defeats all the pirates he meets because he works out daily. ........

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