Animated films

[Jenal]

Hi,



I posted this quite a while ago now but unfortunately haven't had any replies. I thought I would try posting it again.



There are 2 films that I remember from my childhood but cannot remember the name of either one of them. Hopefully someone out there can help me out. Sorry if the details are a bit vague.



(1) It is an animated film about a young/teenage boy and girl, presumably brother and sister. They are on a beach and regularly dive in the sea. Near the beginning of the film, one or both of them create a dolphin figure out of sand on the beach. Later in the story they both go diving from a boat out at sea, and see lots of sharks. All I remember is that there are hammerhead sharks who sort of fight with each other. I saw this in the 1980s sometime.



(2) It is another animated film about a little girl. Either she owns the dog or it is just with her in the film, but the dog is a Saint Bernard breed of dog and he has a red barrel thing around his neck/collar. The girl is climbing a mountain trying to reach the top where there is a red flower with some sort of special magical powers. If I remember correctly, there are also a couple of baddies trying to get the flower before the little girl. I also saw this film in the 1980s sometime. The animated characters look like something drawn from Pokemon or that film called ‘Spirited Away’. I believe this is the sort of films made by Miyazaki.



Any help on either of these would be really good.



Thanks.

[Sgt Sunshine]

Hi,



I posted this quite a while ago now but unfortunately haven't had any replies. I thought I would try posting it again.



There are 2 films that I remember from my childhood but cannot remember the name of either one of them. Hopefully someone out there can help me out. Sorry if the details are a bit vague.



(1) It is an animated film about a young/teenage boy and girl, presumably brother and sister. They are on a beach and regularly dive in the sea. Near the beginning of the film, one or both of them create a dolphin figure out of sand on the beach. Later in the story they both go diving from a boat out at sea, and see lots of sharks. All I remember is that there are hammerhead sharks who sort of fight with each other. I saw this in the 1980s sometime.



(2) It is another animated film about a little girl. Either she owns the dog or it is just with her in the film, but the dog is a Saint Bernard breed of dog and he has a red barrel thing around his neck/collar. The girl is climbing a mountain trying to reach the top where there is a red flower with some sort of special magical powers. If I remember correctly, there are also a couple of baddies trying to get the flower before the little girl. I also saw this film in the 1980s sometime. The animated characters look like something drawn from Pokemon or that film called ‘Spirited Away’. I believe this is the sort of films made by Miyazaki.



Any help on either of these would be really good.



Thanks.

Neither of those films, as far as I know, come from Studio Ghibli (Miyazaki)....
Here... List of animated feature films: 1980s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
may be a good place to start.....
I wish you best of luck...

[nyx]

"2" reminds me of the famous anime series "Belle and Sebastian" Belle certainly has a red barrel tied around her neck although her child friend is male.
I'm sure someone would have replied with this answer before now though? I remember this series well from my own childhood. There may be an episode
with the plot you describe. Here's a link to part of the first episode on youtube :
I would also, perhaps boldly, suggest that the animation style in the cartoon is quite similar to Hayao Miyazaki's work.

[oxfam1uk]

I remember that the Japanese TV series "Battle of the Planets" had an episode featuring a St Bernard dog (he was bionic, or some such nonsense), so that could be number 2.