Comment by romanhn

1 year ago

Oh hey, that totally sounded familiar :) Pretty sure this is from Konyok Gorbunok (The Little Humpbacked Horse), a 1975 Soviet cartoon based on a famous Russian fairy tale. The bit you're describing is at 1:07:30 of https://youtu.be/fKc22eSL1gA.

This doesn't quite fit several of the points you remember (very much in line with the post!), so perhaps it was some other edition of that same story.

EDIT: so, I just plugged your description into ChatGPT and it gave the exact same answer, including an identical timestamp! Weird.

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Terretta  1 year ago

Good lord. When you apologized it "doesn't quite fit" I had lowered expectations -- but then I was watching GP's description come alive!

I can see the high collar getting misremembered as shoulder pads but the whole bit seems too dead on with the recollections to not be the match!

  • inanutshellus  1 year ago

    The heirloom I have is a small rug and it has horses and riders on it, with pointy boots and shoulder pads. So I'm guessing that's where the overlap came in but yes, this is it! It's "The Magic Pony" and the English version is online too!

inanutshellus  1 year ago

HOLY MOLY THIS IS IT! You're my hero! Forever!

The one I saw was dubbed in English but yes, this is it!

I'd forgotten his flying horse and that's the title! HA!

THE MAGIC PONY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0pY1P8Cw5o

I also didn't remember it as being an hour long. This is so exciting! Thank you!

> EDIT: so, I just plugged your description into ChatGPT and it gave the exact same answer, including an identical timestamp! Weird.

In my defense I pasted my post into chatgpt before posting it so that this wouldn't happen, and it suggested "The King's Daughter and the Three Cauldrons" and "The Three Brothers".

  • romanhn  1 year ago

    Haha, you're very welcome. The ChatGPT thing is odd in how close the answer was to my comment, including specific words I used. Makes me wonder about the likelihood of it being scraped and processed by OpenAI in the 10-15 minutes between posting the comment and trying it in ChatGPT. Or perhaps our brains are just LLMs after all :)