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It reached the top five in the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Variety reviewed the film as having a clever found-object look appealing more to grown-ups, but the dialogue and ethnic-stereotype voice performances were a detraction. Videovision Entertainment acquired the worldwide distribution rights for the film. The film does not include a credit listing, as the filmmakers wanted to emphasise the core message of the film instead.

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The filmmakers also spent two years custom-building a motion camera out of bicycle parts because they did not have the funds to buy a professional one. The team sorted and selected junk items from a vacant lot next to their office. Director Roger Hawkins described this as wanting to achieve a fresh and unique style linked with Africa. The found-object aesthetic of the film has been described by the filmmakers as 'junkmation', a stylistic choice necessitated by budget considerations as well as inspired by the wire and metalwork of Africa's folk artists, who often transform discarded items into works of art.

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Music from the movie includes a range of singers including Zimbabwean cricketer Henry Olonga. The film was animated using stop motion animation and was made by a team of fifteen people between 19 across two studios. The group appeal to higher forces when confronted by various challenges such as being chased by hyenas, but eventually reach the Sky Kingdom. Along with other characters, they escape from the mines and are briefly imprisoned, and make a second getaway to search for a mythical Sky Kingdom. Three enslaved orphans (Blockhead, Lucky and Squidge) work in the goldmines in the Underground City ruled by the Evil Emperor, and wish for freedom from their gruelling situation.

The film has been described as an allegorical tale with the theme of 'believing is seeing'.

It also screened at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Seoul Animation Film Festival, The London Film Festival, The New York African Film Festival, Sithengi/Cape Town World Cinema Festival and Bath Film Festival. It was in the 2003 Montreal World Film Festival (African Horizons section) and premiered at the Durban International Film Festival in October 2003. It was based on a children's book of the same name by Phil Cunningham, who was also the film's producer. Produced in Harare, Zimbabwe, the film was the first full-length animated feature film to come out of Africa. Hopefully this will save someone else from scratching their head for too long.The Legend of the Sky Kingdom is a 2003 animated feature film directed by Roger Hawkins. This is a really simple solution to a problem which can throw you for a little bit. Once you do this you can drop the quote encapsulation as there is no longer a word breaker in the repository path. The problem turns out to be the spaces again and there’s an easy fix just replace each one of them with the “%20” URL escape character for the space symbol:

Unfortunately this is a totally unintuitive error message which required a bit of guesswork.

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That is until I actually tried to do an update on the working directory and I got “URL is malformed or the scheme or host or path is missing”, just like this:

I started out by encapsulating the externals path in quotes which appeared to work just fine: What we’ll get is an error message along the lines of “Error parsing svn:externals property on ”. The first problem is that whilst there are spaces in the repository path, we’re not going anywhere because the space character is used to delimit the path from the target folder. The context was I was adding an externals to a project from another repository and there were two little barriers that threw a spanner into the works.įor the sake of simplicity, here’s a recreation of the scenario:

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I hit a couple of little hurdles with Subversion this week which I thought I’d share simply because I couldn’t find much public information about it and it was only through trial and error it got resolved.

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