Three Tales (anime)

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Three Tales
新しい動画 3つのはなし (Mittsu no Hanashi)
Genre	Fantasy
Movie
Directed by	Keiko Kozonoe
Studio
Released	January 15, 1960
Runtime	30 mins

Three Tales (Japanese: 新しい動画 3つのはなし) was a black and white Japanese anime aired in 1960. It was the first domestic anime ever televised.

1 Background
2 Story
3 Staff
4 Trivia
5 See also
6 References
7 External Links

[edit] Background

The show was an experimental anthology broadcast on the NHK channel. It was divided into 3 parts featuring individual short fairy tales. The first part of the show titled "The Third Plate" is technically the first anime segment ever televised^[1]^[2]. In total, the show was 30 minutes long^[3].Though it is questionable as to how wide spread the anime actually was, since NHK was only broadcasting to 866 TV sets as of 1953^[4]. There is no known estimate as to how much their infrastructure scaled just 7 years later. Though the best evidence pointing to the anime as being black and white comes from the NHK station record, which indicated they did not make their first analog color broadcast until September 10, 1960 at 8:55pm 9 months later in Tokyo and Osaka^[5].

[edit] Story

The story is an anthology of 3 separate fairy tales.

Story	Japanese Name	English Name	Original Story by
Story 1	第三の皿	The Third Plate	Kosuke Hamada
Story 2	オッペルと象	Oppel and the Elephant	Kenji Miyazawa
Story 3	眠い町	Sleepy Town	Mia Ogawa

[edit] Staff

Kenji Miyazawa would not live to see his story turned into an anime. Mia Ogawa would also pass away just 1 year after the show's first broadcast in 1961.

Function	Japanese Name	English Name	Alternate English Name
Director, Supervisor	小薗江圭子	Keiko Kozonoe
Director, Supervisor	中原収一	Shûichi Nakahara
Director, Supervisor	和田誠	Wada Makoto
Original Story Author	浜田広介	Kosuke Hamada	Hirosuke Hamada
Original Story Author	宮沢賢治	Kenji Miyazawa
Original Story Author	小川未明	Mia Ogawa	Mimei Ogawa

[edit] Trivia

It was broadcasted from 9:00 to 9:30am.
The show was presented by Meiko Takamura.
The opening is one of the first video footages using chroma key.

[edit] See also

History of Anime

[edit] References

^ Clements, Jonathan. McCarthy Helen. [2006] (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia: Revised & Expanded Edition. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5
^ "World Art Russian." World Art Three Tales Info. Retrieved on 2006-12-08.
^ "AllCinema Online." "AllCinema.net Japan." Retrieved on 2006-12-08.
^ Gravett, Paul. [2004] (2004). Manga: 60 years of Japanese Comics, UK: Laurence King Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-85669-391-0
^ "Wikipedia Japan." NHK article in Wikipedia Japan. Retrieved on 2006-12-08.