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Animated Cartoon Film Hall Popular with Schoolchildren
Pyongyang, February 1, 2006 (KCNA) -- A lot of schoolchildren on winter vacation visit the hall of the Korean April 26 Cartoon Film Studio in Pyongyang everyday to watch animated cartoons. "A lot" "everyday", huh... Now on the screen are several pieces of long cartoon films including "A Boy Defeats Robbers" and newly released animated films "Story on Traffic Order"(serial films), That's the one about the kid that saves North Korea by directing traffic on an empty street... "Cho Tong and His Father", "Three Ant Brothers" and "Newly Acquainted Friend". They sound boring. The animated films give the versatile knowledge of things and phenomena to children and also lessons that they should be possessed of kind and beautiful moral characters from younger days in humorous way. They are very popular among children for their successful depiction suitable to indoctrinate their psychology. The hall annually shows more than 400 pieces of animated propaganda films including "The Hedgehog Beats the Tiger", "Prince of Hodong and Princess of Raknang" and "Blue Springwater" (three parts) and "A Squirrel and a Hedgehog", "The Clever Racoon Dog" and "The Tinkling of a Bell" which are under serial creation A.K.A creation under the benevolent eye of Kim Jong Il.