’70s animated film about a boy who gets frozen in a block of ice?

This movie has been haunting me ever since I saw a snippet of it on a cruise in Nova Scotia in the 1970s. I don’t know if the movie was from the ’70s or earlier, but here’s what I remember of it:

  1. The characters had big, Speed Racer-like eyes;
  2. The boy was friends with a young girl.
  3. Somehow, they end up in a cave (I think) where the boy gets frozen in a block of ice.
  4. The girl cries as she watches him freeze.

That’s all I got, because we had to leave the ship right after that scene. I think the movie was in English, but I was so young when I saw it, it could easily have been in French or Japanese.

Does anyone recognize what I’ve described? If so, you’ll be solving a 40-year mystery for me!

Thanks!

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