Basically, for some time already I was trying to find the cartoon that i saw few times back in 2002-2004
After my post on r/tipofmytongue I found out that the cartoon I was looking for was named Zum-Zum, and that it was actually, well, lost media.
After translating the Russian lost media wiki page about the cartoon I got this description:
Zum-Zum (Latvian: Zum-Zum), also known as "Bee Zum-Zum-Zum" is a 1970 Latvian puppet cartoon about a bee and a wolf, broadcast in the 1970s in the USSR, created at the now defunct studio "Telefilm-Riga" by director and screenwriter Arvids Cepuritis.
It was initially assumed that this could be a cartoon from the "Forest Tales" series, but this version was refuted by the person who first began searching – user Hobotov.
Does anyone remember this cartoon and can provide more info? My grandma probably still has the VHS recordings my grandpa made in the soviet times with illegally imported Swedish equipment. Though those are in back in Estonia, and I'm living in Ireland.
by shalomxyzw
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Greetings, u/shalomxyzw! I have been searching for a recording of this cartoon [since 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/wibl3k/fully_lost_latvian_animation_film_zum_zum_1969/). I really hope that we will find a surviving recording.
The community has found quite a lot of information about the cartoon that you have already seen. So far, no recording of the cartoon has been found.
I’ve searched through several search engines, social networks, video and file hosting sites in different languages, written to a couple of archives, asked the AI - so far without result.
Special thanks to u/Dryu_nya for guiding me to your topic.
I want to note that in the process of searching I came across many other cartoons whose recordings are considered lost. I do not want to bother you, but I will note that the recordings that your grandmother may have saved may help solve more than one mystery! As exciting as it may sound 🙂
Best regards and good luck!
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