Last week I downloaded a bit-torrent of the complete series of ‘Mysterious Cities of Gold‘, an epic Japanise / French animation series from the 1980s. As a child, I allways regretted that when I was a child and this series was first broadcast my poor sense of timing meant that I missed most of the episodes. This weekend I dedicated myself to watching all 36 episodes of this cartoon, but now it’s getting late on Sunday night, I dont think my brain can take any more.
In case you do not remember, are too young to know, this series tells the story of three orphans, Estaban, Zia and Tao who are acompanied accompanied by Spanish Navigator Mendoza and his sailors Pedro and Sancho. Cities of Gold is approximately based on the historical novel The King’s Fifth by Scott O’Dell.
Having watched 28 episodes, that amonts to approximately 560 minutes of animated action:
Assuming that these cartoons are produced at a quarter of normal frame-rate (1 frame of animation for every 4 screen refresh at 25hz ), I have now gazed bleary-eyd at just over two-million frames of animation.
Guessing that each frame took at least five minutes to draw, composite and photograph, and animators work an approximately 9 hour day, then I have just binged my way through five man-years worth of animation.
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