Three Tales (anime)
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was a black and white Japan
ese anime
aired in 1960. It was the first domestic anime ever televised.
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. In total, the show was 30 minutes long. 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. 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
.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
aired in 1960. It was the first domestic anime ever televised.
Background
The show was an experimental anthologyAnthology
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...
broadcast on the NHK
NHK
NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
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. In total, the show was 30 minutes long. Though it is questionable as to how wide spread the anime actually was, since NHK
NHK
NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
was only broadcasting to 866 TV sets as of 1953. 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
Analog signal
An analog or analogue signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal. It differs from a digital signal in terms of small fluctuations in the signal which are...
color broadcast until September 10, 1960 at 8:55pm 9 months later in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
and Osaka
Osaka
is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
.
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 | Hirosuke Hamada |
| Story 2 | オッペルと象 | Oppel and the Elephant | Kenji Miyazawa Kenji Miyazawa was a Japanese poet and author of children's literature in the early Shōwa period of Japan. He was also known as a devout Buddhist, vegetarian and social activist.-Early life:... |
| Story 3 | 眠い町 | Sleepy Town | Mimei Ogawa |
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 Osonoe | |
| Director, Supervisor | 中原収一 | Shûichi Nakahara | |
| Director, Supervisor | 和田誠 | Makoto Wada Makoto Wada is a Japanese illustrator, essayist and film director.After graduating Tama Art University, he established himself as a graphic designer. As an illustrator, he drew many cartoons and caricatures for Shinichi Hoshi and Haruki Murakami.... |
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| Original Story Author | 浜田広介 | Hirosuke Hamada | |
| Original Story Author | 宮沢賢治 | Kenji Miyazawa Kenji Miyazawa was a Japanese poet and author of children's literature in the early Shōwa period of Japan. He was also known as a devout Buddhist, vegetarian and social activist.-Early life:... |
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| Original Story Author | 小川未明 | Mimei Ogawa | Bimei Ogawa |
External links
- 3-tsu no Hanashi in Animemorial (contains a screenshot)