We got a lot of those Yugoslavian cartoons from Zagreb Film on Danish tv in the '70s, I particularly remember "Professor Balthazar":

Bal, Bal, Balthazar,
Bal, Bal, Balthazar!
Balthazaaar!
Balthazar!

from youtube:

dvdlab2
July 05, 2007

Our DVDlab company from Rome is finishing digital restoring of whole popular series "Professor Balthazar". Soon will be possible to see all 49 episodes on tv and dvd. This is a demo of digital film restoration process with MTI Correct DSR. Long live (our) Professor Balthazar!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB-zGFwLWcM[/youtube]

more goodness dubbed in Swedish:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48MsjE_D55Y[/youtube]

Never seen it. The animation style is identical to early short segments on Sesame Street, though.

American educational channels sometimes ran programs of European and other off-Hollywood animation. Presumably that included some of those highly praised Yugoslavian cartoons. I vaguely recall seeing some of them as a child and being totally baffled by them. The main one I remember was an animated version of Poe's "Masque of the Red Death." Which IIRC I learned much later was indeed a Zagreb Studios product.

Also while growing up I watched "Tom and Jerry" cartoons, some of which, in either the late 1950s or the early 1960s, were produced in Czechoslovakia. They had the most horrible-sounding music and sound effects. It sounded like they must have been using prewar Soviet equipment they had dredged up from somewhere. Which is what the few Zagreb cartoons I can recall seeing sounded like too.

Yes, Czechoslovakia was the other leading Eastern European country in animation, they also produced some fascinating puppet and stop motion films IIRC.

Yes, we got Professor Balthazar" in the UK too.
Can't remember any other foreign made cartoons,or maybe I can.
My favourite was Mr.Benn.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GXfUN1grtA[/youtube]

Certainly in terms of music one theme that sticks in my mind was a German made show about a group of crime solving kids called "Kim And Co" circa mid-70s.I used to watch it during the summer school holidays.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQxPiVdUqH8[/youtube]

Yes, the credits are in German, but it says it is based on the book series "Kim & Co." by Jens K. Holm, and there was such a series of boy's novels in Denmark that were popular in the '60s and '70s, also translated into German, as a lot of Danish fiction has been.

Some Danish editions:



And a German edition:

Many of these puppet animation films were based on old folklore tales including the rather unfortunately titled "O mistru Hanusovi" translating into "About Master Hanus" (1976)





Not animation but again based on folklore,I also remember "The Singing Ringing Tree" According to the British Film Institute, it was made in in 1957 in East Germany and was show many times in the 60-70s on British TV.




[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi-mqUXchVE[/youtube]

I also haven't seen any Yugoslav cartoons, either!

Have you ever heard of Jan Svankmajer?

http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Krist%C3%83 ... 6305779635

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5wHMgTPF-s[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNUZJ3_Scnw[/youtube]

Yes, I'm pretty sure I've seen something by Svankmajer, might even have taped a film off tv. How about the Brothers Quay? They experiment with animation as well. They and Svankmajer are the masters in their genre.