The first Korean feature-length animation film Hong Gil-dong was restored in 4K! The film was directed by Shin Dong-heon, who adapted his younger brother’s famous comic series, Lucky Adventurer, Hong Gil-dong from 1965, and released it in Korea two years later.
The lost original negative was made from military giant celluloid films. Korean Film Archive (KFA) collected a Japanese version of 16mm film from a private archive in Osaka, Japan in 2007. They enlarged the images and developed them into 35mm film. Last year, KFA restored the film and sound digitally and synced it with the original Korean sound negative which was preserved in their archive.
Photo credit: Korean Film Archive
Watch now! Hong Gil-dong:
https://youtu.be/wcXignso3pk
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What is Korea’s first feature-length animation film?
https://eng.koreafilm.or.kr/kmdb/trivia/funfacts/BC_0000005070
