Haru no Rondo
春のロンド
Toshie Kusunoki, a popular singer of the early 1960s, performed the song "Haru no Rondo" in a music video produced for NHK's Minna no Uta program. The short film was created by Otogi Production, a studio known for its pioneering work in Japanese animation, and aired as a single episode in 1963. The video combined Kusunoki's vocal performance with animated visuals, likely reflecting the cheerful and seasonal theme of the song.
The music video is now considered lost media, with no known surviving copies in any archive or private collection. Its exact contents, animation style, and visual direction remain unknown to the public, making it a subject of interest among anime historians and lost media enthusiasts. The loss of this work represents a gap in the early history of Japanese music videos and television animation.
