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80sRebel
Jul 8, 2012, 10:59 PM
My sister and I and a user on Yahoo Answers are looking for this. I remember seeing a cartoon movie or special on Nickelodeon's Special Delivery, a weekend block of shows, in 1989 or 1990. The animation was kind of flat and the colors pale. I just remember a tall, thin white man with long white hair and thin black mustache in a tricorn hat, breeches, jabot, and frock coat falling off a ship possibly. He spun around and around in the ocean, and later merpeople were mourning him as he almost died. Sad music was playing as they carried him on a fancy canopied litter. My sister also remembers him wearing a red frock coat, and that his clothes looked like those of a British redcoat, and he also washed up on a beach. The user on Yahoo Answers thinks it may have been by the same studio that did Little Nemo, and described the man as "shrimpy". Based on the clothes, I'm thinking its taking place in the 1700s or so.

I remember the animation as somewhere between Jay Ward (Bullwinkle, Underdog) and Animated Investments/Atkinson Film Arts (80s Velveteen Rabbit, The Tin Soldier, Rumplestiltskin). So far I've tried Yahoo Answers, YouTube, Google, and any sites about Special Delivery, and imdb.com, as well as looking up Golden Studios, Filmation, Burbank Films Australia, Atkinson Film Arts, and Animated Investments. Does anyone know the title and where to find it?

jujubees
Jul 9, 2012, 07:08 AM
I thought m,aybe gulliver's travels Special Delivery (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Delivery_%28TV_series%29)
But not sure
So I suggest asking nickelodeon Show Title Needed (http://networkedblogs.com/zojfP)

straydog
Jul 9, 2012, 02:01 PM
Sounds like

The Fabulous Adventures
Of Baron Munchausen (79)
a.k.a. Les Fabuleuses Aventures du
Légendaire Baron de Munchausen

From Jean Image Studios

-view clip- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8Ff5GwAUU)
(French)


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jujubees
Jul 9, 2012, 03:28 PM
Sounds like

The Fabulous Adventures
Of Baron Munchausen (79)
a.k.a. Les Fabuleuses Aventures du
Légendaire Baron de Munchausen

from Jean Image Studios

-view clip- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8Ff5GwAUU)
(French)


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They had an animated version too? That would be too sweet to see? I wonder if it's on dvd.
Thanks straydog

straydog
Jul 9, 2012, 06:21 PM
it's a very old fable (several actually) and has been redone several times, including a very similar Russian fable The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship it's a bit like an early 16th century superhero team (x-men/avengers/jl etc.)