Kujira (1952)

AlanDSouza1★ 7

From what I can determine, Kujira appears to be the first recorded anime on this site that has color processing applied on the film renders of the background art. This is yet another silhouette animation, a style that would quickly lose popularity as improved animation and recording techniques continued to be worked on. I suspect it was probably the difficulty of working with the new colored medium that forced a regression to more simpler silhouette techniques in this film The story seems a bit incomprehensible, not particularly helped by the terrible choice in background sound design. The auditory simulations of a shipwreck emphasized the chaoticnature of waves and ocean sounds accompanied by thunder, but the lack of sound mixing (I'm talking relative to the time period) makes it resonate in a messy cacophony of noise.