I remember watching this movie on VHS with my grandma when I was a little girl. Now she passed a few months ago and this is our first Christmas without her. I found this on RUclips on Christmas Day after forgetting the title for so long, I think this was my grandmother's Christmas present to me.
I still have the home video recording of this movie from when I was a kid. This movie ranked right up there with The Hobbit, Flight of Dragons, and the entire Star Wars trilogy for me. I can't believe I've finally found someone else who appreciates good entertainment from the classical times.
My great grandma used to have this on VHS, when I was maybe 4 or 5. I never knew the name of it, but I've been trying to piece it together so I've only been searching for key words since I was maybe sixteen. I'm now twenty two and I'm almost in tears from finally finding this. Thank you 100x. ❤️️❤️️❤️️
I had this movie on VHS as a child and was completely enamored by it, watched it hundreds of times. Came back all these years later because nostalgia. Thank you so much for posting!!
I love this movie sooo much. It's my favorite childhood movie. The way they animated the horses and pony in this is amazing. Such a heartwarming movie.
I remember this movie so much. My dad gave it to me and he would always tell me that he was the prince who went into the boiling water. He would joke around telling me that he would always take a bath in boiling water and then go to freezing water to stay young. I know it was a joke but still, he is 50 now and still looks like a 30-year-old man.
When i was younger i found this movie on an old VHS tape. I tried to find it for a couple of days and like most people who commented below i was overjoyed to actually find this movie. The internet is awesome. I love this fairy tale and i'm surprised Disney hasn't made a movie based on it. I enjoy the English voice acting i think they did a great job. I love the story overall and i believe it is wonderful and magical.
Thankyou thankyou thankyou! I grew up on remembering this cartoon. It was this, Wild Swans, The Last Unicorn, and Several others. As I got older, there was part of me that needed to find these cartoons. This was one of the last ones. I searched long and hard for this version of the cartoon and I am so grateful that you posted it. Btw, the princess singing still gets me every time!
+ApprenticeNostalgia Ditto!! The song that the princess sings has stuck with me till this day!! Love the movie!! Last Unicorn too..they are showing it on Netflix now
I seen this movie in the mid-sixties on WGN Chicago. It was shown on the children's show Garfield Goose with Frazier Thomas. The movie was in Russian with subtitles. Absolutely loved it. I loved Olivier and the Artful Dodger which was a sequel to the Olivier Twist story. It was part of the Saturday Superstar Movie lineup.
I have literally been searching for this movie for over 10 years. I watched it as a child, but was never able to remember what it was. After a while, I thought I just imagined the whole thing up. Every time I tried to google search it, Pinocchio always came up (not even sure why) Seriously though, when I found it I screamed and started crying I was so happy, then I immediately came to this video to watch it.Fun Fact: Within 5 minutes of finding this, I found Happy Ness: Secret of the Loch which is another movie I've been searching for years. This is going to be an amazing movie night.
Stormy oh my goodness!!!! happy ness is one I have been searching for for so many years!! I always thought it was called Happy the lochness monster. You are my hero
I’m so happy to hear other people thought they made it up or it was a dream - I thought I was insane! So glad to find this film again, brings back childhood memories
I am a HUGE fan of old-school fairy tales animated movies like this! Rankin-Bass, the Asterix films, Don Bluth, ETC. No matter how old or where in the world they came from, I love them to bits! Disney should seriously take notes.
I thank you so much for uploading this movie. I love it. And thank you for making it available to everyone. I'm 55 now, the last time I watch this movie, I was the little nerd running the movie projector in my summer school. I was in 4th grade. I've searched for it since, but hadn't found it till now. I thank you and thank you again, because life is beautiful :)
OH MY GOD I CANT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS IN RUclips THANK YOU! I am 18 and I had the disc of this when I was in kindergarten and its been like 13 years omg I used to watch this and "All dogs go to heaven" like everyday.
Omg, my older brother and I used to watch this on VHS when we were toddlers all the way up to our late childhood years! The Maiden Princess was always my favorite, but I loved how much Zip cared for Ivan. Thank you so much for uploading this because after our VHS copy got damaged, I thought I'd never see it again! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much! I've been really depressed lately and this blast from the past is exactly what my heart needed to keep moving forward. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
Thank you so much!!! This old cartoon has literally been haunting me for the last two years. I remembered little parts of this film as a kid and attempted to find the title to no avail. Google searches lasting over an hour yielded nothing for whale, ring, golden peacock, prince. I seriously thought I was going a little nuts finding this. Despite the little pops an crackles, you have uploaded a piece of history. Many thanks Nightingale for bringing back something I thought I would never see again. It's eerie and beautiful to see this again and I totally forgot how the music sounded, so beautiful. :)
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS VERSION!! I have loved this movie my whole life and our VHS copy died years ago. I've since given up finding a copy for myself, and then I stumble upon this. I can't wait to let my kids watch this.
When I was little in the 90s my mom rented a movie for me and said it was "My Little Pony", but it clearly wasn't. For decades I gave up on ever knowing what the movie actually was and just accepted that I was misremembering things and it was MLP. But now I finally fucking found it!
OMG!! Thank you SO SO much for posting this! This was one of the cartoons all of my cousins and I would watch at my grandparents!!! We all have such fond memories of watching all of the movies our grandparents had for us to watch!! It's been difficult trying to find them all again, so THANK YOU!!! 😁😁😁😁😁
Thank you and Thank you very very much, Nightingale, I was finding this cartoon very long time. It was remain in my memory. I can remember every scene of this cartoon. It is so classic. I will watch it again. Thank you so much for uploading it. 😄
I remember this from when I was a kid... I still have it on VHS, but unfortunately do not have a way to play it or anything. xD I'm so glad I found this! It was wonderful watching it and re-living these moments from my childhood. Thanks for posting! ^_^
I have been looking for this forever, thank you!! I never saw the movie but I had the soundtrack for some reason - brings back such great childhood memories!!
Then you can probably appreciate original version - the whole tale is a poem so every character is talking in rhymes. It also doesn't have those awful songs.
Thank you! I don't even know how I ended up with the VHS tape to begin with (probably because all but 2 of my cousins are 70's babies), but I'm glad I did. This is my backup in case either the tape or both my VCRs die
oh my gosh! I didnt realize this when I watched this as a kid...but the king is voiced by Jim Backus! (aka Thurston Howell III. from gilligans island! and Mr Magoo!)
Such a beautiful animation movie.. and beautiful music.. background music ..hats off to the team that worked behind and for the dubbing.. everything 👏👏👏💞💖👌
Thank you, thank you, thank you a thousand times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been looking for this for such a long time! It was one of my absolute favorites when I was a little girl! :D
Hello! Placing this comment here in hopes that someone might see it and recognize what I am searching for. I used to have a VHS with a collection of short animations on them. One story was the main story of this, the story of the green thumb, a story of a crying statue that no one visited, and a story of a prince capturing a beautiful glowing pony so he could have it all to himself only to turn it into a depressed pony and setting it free to be itself. Does anyone have a clue by chance what this VHS tape might be? It looked like it was made between the 1960s-1980s. The film is of stills and not of any movement except of maybe a bird flying overhead. I've been looking for at least a lead or a name for a year now and just wondering if anyone might know what I might be talking about... Also, thank you Nightingale205 for posting this. This was great to watch!
Hey guys. I remember watching this in early 80's. Its amazingI was searching for this for years :) thank you for uploading it brings back great memories
Thanks for this! I couldn't remember the title but I remember this film from my good ol' local VHS rental store days as a kid. Great memories-just subbed! :)
The original version was spoken in Russian right? That is how I remembered it. Saw it when I was little, about 40 years ago, never forgotten about it. Thanks for posting!
One of my favorites as a child, been looking for this for years! Thank you so much! Watching this as an adult, I didn't realize that witchy looking groom drowned, as he should, or what an ungrateful, greedy, gullible hog that little king was 😂 😂 nor how useless Ivan was. Poor zip, not only did she literally carry Ivan on her back, but she carried him figuratively, too! How silly!
+tverskojkozel the US :) had it on an old vhs tape as a little kid, I have absolutely no idea where it came from. Is the translation accurate to the original? :)
Ivan the Fool (Ivanushka the Fool) is one of the most popular heroes of Russian fairy tales. It embodies a special strategy, proceeding not from the standard postulates of practical reason, but based on the search for its own solutions, often contrary to common sense, but, ultimately, bringing success. Has some features of a "trickster". According to some versions, the name with the epithet "fool" is the name-amulet, which prevents the evil eye. According to another version of the "fool" - this is the property status of Ivan the fool. Since he is the third son, he does not have a share in the inheritance (stays in the fools). As a rule, his social status is low - a peasant son or the son of an old man with an old woman. In the family he was often the third son. Not married. With the help of magic tools and especially thanks to his "mind," Ivan the fool successfully passes all the tests and attains the highest values: he defeats the enemy, marries the royal daughter, receives both wealth and fame ... Perhaps Ivan the fool achieves all this, that he embodies the first (according to Georges Dumezil) magico-legal function, connected not so much with the deed as with the word, with priestly duties. Ivan the Fool is the only brother who speaks in a fairy tale. Ivan the fool unravel the riddles, that is, he does what the priest does in many traditions during the ritual dedicated to the main annual holiday. Ivan the Fool is a poet and musician; in fairy tales, his singing is emphasized, his ability to play on a magic flute or magic gusli, forcing a herd dancing. Ivan the Fool is the bearer of a special speech, in which, in addition to riddles, jokes, jokes, fragments are noted where either the phonetic or semantic principles of ordinary speech are violated, or even something reminiscent of wit; compare "extravagance", "nonsense", language paradoxes based, in particular, on the game of homonymy and synonymy, the polysemy and multi-referentiality of words, etc. (for example, the killing of a dragon by a spear Ivan the Fool describes as "evil from evil has died"). Ivan the fool is connected in the plot with a certain critical situation, completed by a holiday (victory over the enemy and marriage), in which he is the main participant. Similar stories have other European nations. For example, the German fairy tale "Hans Dumm" , the Italian fairy tale "Pietro pazzo" by , the French fairy tale "The Marriage of Jean Idiot"
I love this. I saw it in Russian first and I prefer the Russian track with subtitles, BUT it sure is nice to see it in English finally. The voices are just so strange to me.
I saw bits and pieces of this movie once, in the 80s, I think...maybe NBC on a Sunday Morning? Anyway, now I've finally seen it in its entirety for the first time! RUclips is a good thing, don't let anyone tell you otherwise! 😊
Hey guys! I'm russian and I love this cartoon, but listen - WE HAVE ANOTHER MUSIC IN OUR ORIGINAL VERSION! :D And I think, our songs sounds better. х) I hope, most part of you will find an original film to compare voices and songs. Please! xD I appreciate that you love russian animation, it's cool. I really sad about the fact, that we can't do great animation nowadays, but we trying to change it.
I grew up watching this version so for me it is hard to watch the original as the nostalgia just isn't the same. The songs and voices are great but I remember the songs I grew up with and those are the ones that take me back to that time.
Ponysynth One Official This is actually a remake of the same film by the same crew from the 1940s. (My sister is doing a report on this, that is the only reason I know.)
This carton is an adaptation of a fairy tale written by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov and first published in 1834. And even that story is based on even older story.
OMG this was one of my favorite movies growing up and I always felt like I was the only person who had seen it. Was beginning to think I made it up lol. So good!
Oh my lord, thank you so much for uploading this! All these years I've remembered absolutely nothing about it but a song that went "In the dark of the night" and the fact that I hated it and found it unspeakably, agonizingly boring. Not nearly enough pony.
There were TWO Russian versions of this. The first was animated in the late 40s, then over the years the negative deteriorated, and, as these were the days before digital restoration, they animated the whole thing over in the 70s, and that's the version dubbed for the US. The 40s version has since been restored.
Yep, because they couldn't re-release it in the 70s by popular demand due to not having the technology for restoration at the time, Ivan Ivano-Vano (the originals director) decided to remake the original with a few alterations here and there, like the scene with the whale being forgiven when he set the ships he's eaten free and getting the ring for the maiden in the ocean.
Wow, The Magic Pony. Creative translation in motion. Whatever language movie or cartoon is - it's always better in original. The only great dub I know is Disney - because they do it themself.
I'm from russia like original 1947 version and 1975 2nd, but this american adaptating translation is marvelous! The country music create wondeful atmosfer. I think it is great tallent to make such inspiring adaptation dub. the mult is watched in one breath
I didn't know there were so many English translation/variation of this animation. But I'm positive that this is the version I watched as a kid. The princess's song is what I remember the most! :)
I remember renting this edition from Family video as a kid. The Princess' song about being a lonely kid was always stuck in my head. I ended up finding one of the Russian versions on here a few years ago and it was interesting hearing the more traditional music than these groovy pop songs.
I too was trying to remember bits and pieces of this movie , to try and figure out how to search for it. The last time i tried was 5 years ago when i met my wife. I wanted to show her this movie which was part of my childhood. Today i came across a website which helped me find it in 5 minutes "www.whatismymovie.com" thanks for uploading @Nightingale205 feels great putting together the lost memories :)
It was so sad to reveal that the English dub had replaced ALL the songs from the original. The voices are different - that's OK, maybe even the prose translation instead of the poetric original is warrantable... but the amazing, fantastic soundtrack is lost! :( Why didn't they just adaptated the songs, without replacing the music with these pop melodies? I guess people besides Russia deserve the better.
Oh my god I’ve been looking for this movie for 20 years!!!
i have spent YEARS looking for this movie. thank you thank you thank you!
I remember watching this movie on VHS with my grandma when I was a little girl. Now she passed a few months ago and this is our first Christmas without her. I found this on RUclips on Christmas Day after forgetting the title for so long, I think this was my grandmother's Christmas present to me.
I still have the home video recording of this movie from when I was a kid. This movie ranked right up there with The Hobbit, Flight of Dragons, and the entire Star Wars trilogy for me. I can't believe I've finally found someone else who appreciates good entertainment from the classical times.
My great grandma used to have this on VHS, when I was maybe 4 or 5. I never knew the name of it, but I've been trying to piece it together so I've only been searching for key words since I was maybe sixteen. I'm now twenty two and I'm almost in tears from finally finding this. Thank you 100x. ❤️️❤️️❤️️
You are very welcome!
American: The king climbed out and was not younger, but much wiser
Russia: He’s dead, deal with it
Oh no! 6 year old Timmy is crying!
I had this movie on VHS as a child and was completely enamored by it, watched it hundreds of times. Came back all these years later because nostalgia. Thank you so much for posting!!
another one version) ruclips.net/video/qMr591yOEDk/видео.html
I love this movie sooo much. It's my favorite childhood movie. The way they animated the horses and pony in this is amazing. Such a heartwarming movie.
RIP Erin Moran who was the voice of the Princess in The Magic Pony.
Actually I Think She Voiced Zip!
I remember this movie so much. My dad gave it to me and he would always tell me that he was the prince who went into the boiling water. He would joke around telling me that he would always take a bath in boiling water and then go to freezing water to stay young. I know it was a joke but still, he is 50 now and still looks like a 30-year-old man.
When i was younger i found this movie on an old VHS tape. I tried to find it for a couple of days and like most people who commented below i was overjoyed to actually find this movie. The internet is awesome. I love this fairy tale and i'm surprised Disney hasn't made a movie based on it. I enjoy the English voice acting i think they did a great job. I love the story overall and i believe it is wonderful and magical.
The princess' song... I could listen to it all day. It's so beautiful. I've adored this movie since I was a young kid.
Thankyou thankyou thankyou! I grew up on remembering this cartoon. It was this, Wild Swans, The Last Unicorn, and Several others. As I got older, there was part of me that needed to find these cartoons. This was one of the last ones. I searched long and hard for this version of the cartoon and I am so grateful that you posted it. Btw, the princess singing still gets me every time!
You are most welcome!
+ApprenticeNostalgia Ditto!! The song that the princess sings has stuck with me till this day!! Love the movie!! Last Unicorn too..they are showing it on Netflix now
Me too!! even now the song that princess singing is still remain in my memory and I very glad to found this cartoon. 😄
ApprenticeNostalgia I used to have this movie years and years ago!!!! when VHS' were still a thing XD I miss it!
I seen this movie in the mid-sixties on WGN Chicago. It was shown on the children's show Garfield Goose with Frazier Thomas. The movie was in Russian with subtitles. Absolutely loved it. I loved Olivier and the Artful Dodger which was a sequel to the Olivier Twist story. It was part of the Saturday Superstar Movie lineup.
I have literally been searching for this movie for over 10 years. I watched it as a child, but was never able to remember what it was. After a while, I thought I just imagined the whole thing up. Every time I tried to google search it, Pinocchio always came up (not even sure why) Seriously though, when I found it I screamed and started crying I was so happy, then I immediately came to this video to watch it.Fun Fact: Within 5 minutes of finding this, I found Happy Ness: Secret of the Loch which is another movie I've been searching for years. This is going to be an amazing movie night.
Me TOO! I thought this movie was just the remnants of old childhood nightmares. I feel way less crazy now.
Stormy oh my goodness!!!! happy ness is one I have been searching for for so many years!! I always thought it was called Happy the lochness monster. You are my hero
Stormy same here 😀
Happy to help!
I’m so happy to hear other people thought they made it up or it was a dream - I thought I was insane! So glad to find this film again, brings back childhood memories
I've been looking for a copy of this for AGES!!! My childhood!!! Yes!!! Thank you oh so very much for uploading this!
I am a HUGE fan of old-school fairy tales animated movies like this! Rankin-Bass, the Asterix films, Don Bluth, ETC. No matter how old or where in the world they came from, I love them to bits!
Disney should seriously take notes.
That "lonely child" music playing in the background in various scenes... is absolutely haunting and mesmerizing. Love it!
I thank you so much for uploading this movie. I love it. And thank you for making it available to everyone. I'm 55 now, the last time I watch this movie, I was the little nerd running the movie projector in my summer school. I was in 4th grade. I've searched for it since, but hadn't found it till now. I thank you and thank you again, because life is beautiful :)
Ivan is so badass. He caught the phoenix, kidnapped the Queen and stole the King's fiance. Haha. But it is still a great animation.
She Didn't agree to Marry him unless he became young so technically she was never "his fiance" The Old Lech!" : P LOL
I also grew up watching this. I love it!
OH MY GOD I CANT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS IN RUclips THANK YOU! I am 18 and I had the disc of this when I was in kindergarten and its been like 13 years omg I used to watch this and "All dogs go to heaven" like everyday.
I've been looking for this forever
My favourite childhood cartoon ever😭 It was sold on dvds in early 2000's in Croatia. Love it❤️❤️❤️
Try to see the original version with english sub. It's here on youtube. Named The Little Humpbacked Horse
Omg, my older brother and I used to watch this on VHS when we were toddlers all the way up to our late childhood years! The Maiden Princess was always my favorite, but I loved how much Zip cared for Ivan. Thank you so much for uploading this because after our VHS copy got damaged, I thought I'd never see it again! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much!
I've been really depressed lately and this blast from the past is exactly what my heart needed to keep moving forward. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
Thank you so so much for uploading this!!! I have searched for years. I use to have it on VHS.. wore it out xD
Jennifer Raingarden this was my life on VHS,I'm just searching for people pinnochio
Jennifer Raingarden q
Great movie you can also find it under the title the hunchback horse
Thank you so much!!!
This old cartoon has literally been haunting me for the last two years. I remembered little parts of this film as a kid and attempted to find the title to no avail. Google searches lasting over an hour yielded nothing for whale, ring, golden peacock, prince. I seriously thought I was going a little nuts finding this.
Despite the little pops an crackles, you have uploaded a piece of history. Many thanks Nightingale for bringing back something I thought I would never see again. It's eerie and beautiful to see this again and I totally forgot how the music sounded, so beautiful. :)
You're very welcome! Glad I could help!!
Same!! I searched for years for the name of the movie until I looked for boy, donkey, Prince from oil water and milk.
power64 its been hunting me since i was about aged 7 or 8 and now i m 38...but i believe i watched the other 1... version 1948
I'm so grateful to you for posting this I've been searching for it for years
Oh this is SO amazing!! I had this movie as a little girl and loved it and haven't found it ANYWHERE!!! Thank you so much!!!
OMG i have been looking for this movie forever. this was one of my favorite movies when I was a child thank you
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!! I too grew up watching this!! I've been dying to see it again for years!!
You're welcome!
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS VERSION!! I have loved this movie my whole life and our VHS copy died years ago. I've since given up finding a copy for myself, and then I stumble upon this. I can't wait to let my kids watch this.
You're very welcome!
Omg... I Grew up on this. So glad I found it.
Memories of watching this repeatedly on VHS tape with my delighted little daughter, back in the '80's!
thank you!!! i absolutly loved this movie as a kid!
Thank you so very much for posting this. It's my most favorite movie from my childhood. Have been searching high and low.
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its been killing me for years trying to remember the name of this movie. SO glad i found it finally :D THANK YOU!!!
I watched this at my grandmother's house on VHS. Thank you very much for sharing it with us!
You're welcome!
When I was little in the 90s my mom rented a movie for me and said it was "My Little Pony", but it clearly wasn't.
For decades I gave up on ever knowing what the movie actually was and just accepted that I was misremembering things and it was MLP.
But now I finally fucking found it!
THIS MOVIE WAS MY JAM
Definitely buried in my memory, it was worth the watch. Cool little story.
OMG!! Thank you SO SO much for posting this! This was one of the cartoons all of my cousins and I would watch at my grandparents!!! We all have such fond memories of watching all of the movies our grandparents had for us to watch!! It's been difficult trying to find them all again, so THANK YOU!!! 😁😁😁😁😁
this is the children s movie
today s directors and story writers please learn from this
but don't copy it
after all master piece is the master piece
Thank you so much for uploading
Thank you and Thank you very very much, Nightingale, I was finding this cartoon very long time. It was remain in my memory. I can remember every scene of this cartoon. It is so classic. I will watch it again. Thank you so much for uploading it. 😄
Yes! I was looking for this version for a long time. Thank you so much for posting!
+tsaim03 You're welcome! Enjoy!
I remember this from when I was a kid... I still have it on VHS, but unfortunately do not have a way to play it or anything. xD I'm so glad I found this! It was wonderful watching it and re-living these moments from my childhood. Thanks for posting! ^_^
I watched this as a child in the 70s on KTLA Family Film Festival.
Love it reminds me of childhood. Thank you
This is my one year olds favorite movie she watches it every morning
I have been looking for this forever, thank you!! I never saw the movie but I had the soundtrack for some reason - brings back such great childhood memories!!
NotQuiteACougar NYC any chance u can tell me where I can find the soundtrack?
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!!
You're welcome!
oh and the song the women sings is what really helped me remember this movie. i LOVE THE SONG!!
!!!! I watched this so many times as a kid and it's so hard to find now, thanks for sharing!
Haven't seen this for an extremely long time, cna;t believe someone managed to get this on, this is AWESOME!!! :)
I don't care if people say the Russian one is better. I grew up with this English dub, so I like this one more.
Me too.
Then you can probably appreciate original version - the whole tale is a poem so every character is talking in rhymes. It also doesn't have those awful songs.
as someone who grew up watching both, this one is definitely better so that's ok 👌
I found a VHS copy of it from 92' and I remember watching this as a child. I was obsessed with it but my sister didn't care for it much.
Oh.My.God. Thank you so much! I used to have this movie on VHS! I loved it so much when I was a kid. :D
You're Welcome!
OMG!! I've been looking for this and haven't been able to find it anywhere (til now). Thank you, thank you, thank you 😍
You are very welcome!
such a master piece!!!!
always loved it when I was a child
now, my child is in love with it!!
I really enjoyed these shows and I wish they would air them again because they are enjoyable and fun to watch
Thank you! I don't even know how I ended up with the VHS tape to begin with (probably because all but 2 of my cousins are 70's babies), but I'm glad I did. This is my backup in case either the tape or both my VCRs die
There are so many of us, we should start a club! lol
oh my gosh! I didnt realize this when I watched this as a kid...but the king is voiced by Jim Backus! (aka Thurston Howell III. from gilligans island! and Mr Magoo!)
and Spalnik is voiced by Hans Conried, the voice of Captain Hook in Disneys Peter Pan.
Such a beautiful animation movie.. and beautiful music.. background music ..hats off to the team that worked behind and for the dubbing.. everything 👏👏👏💞💖👌
Thank you, thank you, thank you a thousand times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been looking for this for such a long time! It was one of my absolute favorites when I was a little girl! :D
Yupp, soviet russian animation was superb! Outstanding !
Hello! Placing this comment here in hopes that someone might see it and recognize what I am searching for. I used to have a VHS with a collection of short animations on them. One story was the main story of this, the story of the green thumb, a story of a crying statue that no one visited, and a story of a prince capturing a beautiful glowing pony so he could have it all to himself only to turn it into a depressed pony and setting it free to be itself. Does anyone have a clue by chance what this VHS tape might be? It looked like it was made between the 1960s-1980s. The film is of stills and not of any movement except of maybe a bird flying overhead. I've been looking for at least a lead or a name for a year now and just wondering if anyone might know what I might be talking about... Also, thank you Nightingale205 for posting this. This was great to watch!
One of my favorite cartoons of all time.
Lovely.
Hey guys. I remember watching this in early 80's. Its amazingI was searching for this for years :) thank you for uploading it brings back great memories
The animation is fantastic! It seems like a lost art.
Wow... may dad recorded this for me in early 80’s but we had it in russian 😃. Thank u!
THANK YOU !!! Been looking for this one for ages
Jade S. You're welcome!!
Thanks for this! I couldn't remember the title but I remember this film from my good ol' local VHS rental store days as a kid. Great memories-just subbed! :)
I love this movie.
In English! This makes me so happy.
The original version was spoken in Russian right? That is how I remembered it. Saw it when I was little, about 40 years ago, never forgotten about it. Thanks for posting!
my childhood!!!!
such a dear classic
One of my favorites as a child, been looking for this for years! Thank you so much!
Watching this as an adult, I didn't realize that witchy looking groom drowned, as he should, or what an ungrateful, greedy, gullible hog that little king was 😂 😂 nor how useless Ivan was. Poor zip, not only did she literally carry Ivan on her back, but she carried him figuratively, too! How silly!
+tverskojkozel the US :) had it on an old vhs tape as a little kid, I have absolutely no idea where it came from. Is the translation accurate to the original? :)
+tverskojkozel how interesting! I always thought the pony seemed more masculine
Ivan the Fool (Ivanushka the Fool) is one of the most popular heroes of Russian fairy tales. It embodies a special strategy, proceeding not from the standard postulates of practical reason, but based on the search for its own solutions, often contrary to common sense, but, ultimately, bringing success. Has some features of a "trickster". According to some versions, the name with the epithet "fool" is the name-amulet, which prevents the evil eye. According to another version of the "fool" - this is the property status of Ivan the fool. Since he is the third son, he does not have a share in the inheritance (stays in the fools).
As a rule, his social status is low - a peasant son or the son of an old man with an old woman. In the family he was often the third son. Not married.
With the help of magic tools and especially thanks to his "mind," Ivan the fool successfully passes all the tests and attains the highest values: he defeats the enemy, marries the royal daughter, receives both wealth and fame ... Perhaps Ivan the fool achieves all this, that he embodies the first (according to Georges Dumezil) magico-legal function, connected not so much with the deed as with the word, with priestly duties.
Ivan the Fool is the only brother who speaks in a fairy tale. Ivan the fool unravel the riddles, that is, he does what the priest does in many traditions during the ritual dedicated to the main annual holiday.
Ivan the Fool is a poet and musician; in fairy tales, his singing is emphasized, his ability to play on a magic flute or magic gusli, forcing a herd dancing. Ivan the Fool is the bearer of a special speech, in which, in addition to riddles, jokes, jokes, fragments are noted where either the phonetic or semantic principles of ordinary speech are violated, or even something reminiscent of wit; compare "extravagance", "nonsense", language paradoxes based, in particular, on the game of homonymy and synonymy, the polysemy and multi-referentiality of words, etc. (for example, the killing of a dragon by a spear Ivan the Fool describes as "evil from evil has died"). Ivan the fool is connected in the plot with a certain critical situation, completed by a holiday (victory over the enemy and marriage), in which he is the main participant.
Similar stories have other European nations. For example, the German fairy tale "Hans Dumm" , the Italian fairy tale "Pietro pazzo" by , the French fairy tale "The Marriage of Jean Idiot"
I used to watch this repeatedly... on Beta! Thank you, so much!
This Russian cartoons from the USSR from my childhood ! Russian Russian Russian fairy tales cartoons Russian culture ! Thank you with all my heart !
I love this. I saw it in Russian first and I prefer the Russian track with subtitles, BUT it sure is nice to see it in English finally. The voices are just so strange to me.
Never watched the Russian originally, just the English dubbed one, but even as a child the voices felt out of place lol. I still loved it though.
I saw bits and pieces of this movie once, in the 80s, I think...maybe NBC on a Sunday Morning? Anyway, now I've finally seen it in its entirety for the first time! RUclips is a good thing, don't let anyone tell you otherwise! 😊
Hey guys! I'm russian and I love this cartoon, but listen - WE HAVE ANOTHER MUSIC IN OUR ORIGINAL VERSION! :D And I think, our songs sounds better. х) I hope, most part of you will find an original film to compare voices and songs. Please! xD I appreciate that you love russian animation, it's cool. I really sad about the fact, that we can't do great animation nowadays, but we trying to change it.
I watched the original and had to turn this one off. The boy's voice is BEAUTIFUL! And the translations make far more sense.
I grew up watching this version so for me it is hard to watch the original as the nostalgia just isn't the same. The songs and voices are great but I remember the songs I grew up with and those are the ones that take me back to that time.
And it's called Little Humpback Horse...
@@BytomGirl made my day
Thanks. I grew up with this fairy tale and love the ballet based on it.
Well, this means, that MLP had a predecessor in 70's... Good to know something new...
Ponysynth One Official This is actually a remake of the same film by the same crew from the 1940s. (My sister is doing a report on this, that is the only reason I know.)
SunstarPhoenix
Now I'm more surprised :O
This carton is an adaptation of a fairy tale written by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov and first published in 1834. And even that story is based on even older story.
hi nice it is the best
Equisynth Studio MLP was'nt existed in the 70s. It was debuted in the 82s and it became overrated in 2010s.
OMG this was one of my favorite movies growing up and I always felt like I was the only person who had seen it. Was beginning to think I made it up lol. So good!
Oh my lord, thank you so much for uploading this! All these years I've remembered absolutely nothing about it but a song that went "In the dark of the night" and the fact that I hated it and found it unspeakably, agonizingly boring. Not nearly enough pony.
Holy fuck... I've been looking for this version for years!
There were TWO Russian versions of this. The first was animated in the late 40s, then over the years the negative deteriorated, and, as these were the days before digital restoration, they animated the whole thing over in the 70s, and that's the version dubbed for the US. The 40s version has since been restored.
Really?! I'd be interested to see the original. Any idea where I could find it?
+Jessica Sage Just search for it on RUclips. It was all I could find which is why I uploaded this version.
+Nightingale205 and I am so glad you did n_n this is the version I love and grew up with
Both variants of Russian animation were uploaded on youTube - " The Little Humpbacked Horse "
Yep, because they couldn't re-release it in the 70s by popular demand due to not having the technology for restoration at the time, Ivan Ivano-Vano (the originals director) decided to remake the original with a few alterations here and there, like the scene with the whale being forgiven when he set the ships he's eaten free and getting the ring for the maiden in the ocean.
Geeeeewiz!! I remember watching this on laser disc when I was a kid in the 80’s. 😂 back when life was simple.
I used to watch this on the family film festival every year on channel five
tysm for uploading this!!!
Wow, The Magic Pony. Creative translation in motion.
Whatever language movie or cartoon is - it's always better in original.
The only great dub I know is Disney - because they do it themself.
I'm from russia like original 1947 version and 1975 2nd, but this american adaptating translation is marvelous! The country music create wondeful atmosfer. I think it is great tallent to make such inspiring adaptation dub. the mult is watched in one breath
I didn't know there were so many English translation/variation of this animation. But I'm positive that this is the version I watched as a kid. The princess's song is what I remember the most! :)
I remember watching this when I was little in Russian.
I remember renting this edition from Family video as a kid. The Princess' song about being a lonely kid was always stuck in my head. I ended up finding one of the Russian versions on here a few years ago and it was interesting hearing the more traditional music than these groovy pop songs.
I too was trying to remember bits and pieces of this movie , to try and figure out how to search for it. The last time i tried was 5 years ago when i met my wife. I wanted to show her this movie which was part of my childhood. Today i came across a website which helped me find it in 5 minutes "www.whatismymovie.com"
thanks for uploading @Nightingale205
feels great putting together the lost memories :)
It was so sad to reveal that the English dub had replaced ALL the songs from the original. The voices are different - that's OK, maybe even the prose translation instead of the poetric original is warrantable... but the amazing, fantastic soundtrack is lost! :( Why didn't they just adaptated the songs, without replacing the music with these pop melodies? I guess people besides Russia deserve the better.