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In the middle of the 20th century, when the Disney animation dominated the world, the public had become accustomed to the narrative mode of Disney animation and the aesthetic standard of mainstream commercialization. The former Yugoslavia had a city named Zagreb, and their animations just like a warm wind blowing from southeastern Europe, stood out with its unique warm, humorous style, and was famous by its variety of animation styles. Zagreb school of animation began to enter the audience's sight. This paper through the study on Pioneer representative of Zagreb school of Animation-Bordo Dovnikovic’s personal work style, tries to analyze the humor wisdom of "small potatoes" behind Zagreb school of Animation works. In the simple stories, artists use their unique creativity and imagination to make rational thinking and humor, use exaggeration, satire, absurd and other humorous means to compose ridiculous and joyful works. It seemed easy, humor and laughable, but in fact it led to the heavy thinking of social status at that time, their unique and noble personal charms decided that the Zagreb school had an indispensable status and historical significance in the development history of the world animation. At the same time we should also combine with China's animation situation, take a look at the Zagreb school of animation and see what is worthy of our learning. Keywords—Zagreb School; Bordo Dovnikovic; humor; animation; politics I. INTERPRETATION OF THE "SMALL POTATOES"’ HUMOR IN ZAGREB SCHOOL Everyone who has seen the Zagreb animations will like their humor, but exactly what kind of artists could create this kind of humor? Lin Yutang in Discussion On the Humor said: "In fact, humor and irony are very close, but irony may not be the purpose. Irony always tends to be sour, after the sour and spicy state of mind is removed, then it will be humor. Humor is a bystander which just be cool and stand far away, always brings tears with laugh." 1 Zagreb school’s humor is this kind of thinking mode which simplifies what is complicated and full of wisdom and ambition. They are calm and gentle, was not enslaved by war life. It can easily resolve all kinds of embarrassment and difficulties, with a humorous attitude to live a better life. If you want to truly grasp the humor of a nation, you must know and understand the whole life of the nation. The humor of Zagreb animated film is the enrichment of Yugoslav people’s life attitude, which is they still maintain 1 From Lin Yutang’s "Humorous life” [M]. Beijing Drama Publishing House, 2002. P76 a unique and noble personality charm and optimism life attitude when they face the suffering. They displayed the real life of "small potatoes" with exquisite ideas to the audience. A. Bordo and His "Small Potatoes" Bordo said: "I think my audience is the protagonist of my movie because the audience like my movie, my movie is about their lives." 2 Most protagonists of Zagreb's animations are characters, and in a few cases are symbolic animals, themed by respecting the real life, showing the trivial matters around them and the feelings of ordinary people. The audience is also ordinary people, so they will have a strong resonance for the characters’ feelings and experiences. Of course, ordinary small potatoes also represent Bordo himself, the hero in his works Second-class Passengers has nobody to care about him, the steward did not come to check on him when it’s snowing, letting him buried in the snow. This role is lonely, and nobody care about him except a dog. The inspiration for Bordo to create the film is his personal experience, when he took a train through Annecy Switzerland, he saw a lot of passengers come and go, and he did not know who they were or where they were heading to. The train was full of strangers, on the trip he saw a lot of things, and although these are small things, it is the beginning of Bordo’s creation, and then the next step is how to enrich the idea. The film's screen style still used stage style, and only with one simple machine unit, you could see the hero with no characteristics entered the coach, and then you could see his life, see him talking to other passengers, including politician, astronaut, steward, policeman and football player, but all these people do not care about him; at last the hero ran out of patience with that politician and directly threw him out of the window, and killed him at the last stop of his trip. Bordo’s short film Ceremony is different from the tone of his other works, and the film has a huge drop between the two emotional poles. In the screen were still five small potatoes without features, patiently changing different postures, and voice-over seemed never satisfied with their poses. The audience thought they were taking photos and the other voice is the photographer, until they finally got the position which satisfied the over-voice and a gunshot, everyone fell down to the ground. So it was the course to shot the prisoner from the beginning. What should we say? A cruel reality Bordo could 2 From the "Zagreb, Once The Animation Paradise" of "Special Program for Tour of World Film" 456 2017 International Conference on Culture, Education and Financial Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2017) Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR), volume 103

Humor of qSmall Potatoesq -- The Study on Zagreb School of Animation from Bordo Dovnikovic