Momotarou

Mostly short pieces of Japanese animation dating back to the early XX century. Pre Astro Boy works only. For those who want to explore the very beginnings of anime history before it took its current culture, tropes and technological advancements.

Collection of series and films that are actually lost, meaning that there is no known copy or footage available anywhere anymore.

As opposed to lists like this list https://myanimelist.net/stacks/29546 which include series where the footage or copies of the footage are known to exist but they just are not publicly available are not included here.

Actually Lost: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47057
Actually Lost 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47061

Partly Lost: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47060

Not Available on the internet: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/29546
Not Available on the internet 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/47062

Retellings of the folklore "Momotarō" or "Peach Boy". 🍑👦

Tags: Folklore, Folktale, Momotarou, Dog, Monkey, Pheasant, Hero, Giant Peach, Dumpling, Oni, Demon, Demon Slayer, Okayama Prefecture

Wikis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momotar%C5%8D
https://fairytale.fandom.com/wiki/Momotar%C5%8D_the_Peach_Boy

Also check NHK WORLD-JAPAN's Story Land (https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/storyland/):
Peach Boy
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/4040007/

Check the Interest Stacks Repository club for more:
Fairy Tales, Folktales and Folklores: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2170508

1910s Anime:

1917: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/70908

Like with 1917, this year only had one anime that isn't lost media. It seemed to be the year of Kitayama as alot of his work is lost media now. There are no anime in 1919 because they haven't been documented yet.