u/Longo_Bongo4

Nowadays, it is an accepted tradition that armies walk in lockstep during military parades, and as far as I know this has been a tradition since at least the Napoleonic Era. My question is if earlier military parades did the same or a similar thing and how far back this goes? Where roman legionnaires walking in lockstep during a triumph? Did the macedonian phalanx, which had to kind of walk in lockstep to be effective in combat also perform the same discipline in public showing (if they had a tradition of parades at all)? Can we even go back further to Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures, which, according to reliefs, also had a culture of military parade after a successful campaign? What about other cultures? Did chinese, korean and japanese armies have military parades in pre-modern times, and was walking in lockstep a part of that tradition? Same question for pre-columbian cultures in the Americas like the Aztecs and the Mayans.

Thank you so much in advance for your answers.

Hi there, I'm looking for a movie I saw as a child. It was an animated movie (2D, most likely hand-animated). I saw it maybe in 1998-2000, but it might be an older movie (or most likely is older, I saw it on German free TV which did reruns of older material quite often). If I had to guess the age I would say msot likely 60's to late 80's.

I only remember one scene, there were small aquatic creatures (maybe prawns or something similar) that went out on an all out attack, if I remember correctly against much bigger animals (maybe sharks or whales), there's a slim chance that it was humans or a human boat, I'm quite sure they passed a sunken wooden boat at one point. The animals were using something small as kind of a ship o submarine, maybe clams or walnut shells (though clams would make more sense I guess). Before the attack they were "sailing" on the open sea, maybe using tiny sails or oars. I think they also had tiny weapons, but most likely made out of natural materials you would find in the sea.

I think these critters also were in alliance with other animals and it cut between several "battle" scenes, not sure if any humans were involved, but most likely not.

The style and feel of the movie was quite serious, nothing like a Disney movie, more something akin to Ralph Bakshi or watership down.

There's a slim chance that it was an episode of an animated TV show, but based on my memory it was too long and too high quality to be that.

It was definitely more of a western style of animation, not anime or something else from east Asia. If I had to guess I would say American, central or east european/soviet.

Any ideas what that could be? I've had this scene stuck in my memory for ages and just can't find the answer. I tried tip of my tongue a while ago to no avail