BSA206, film history, international animation collaborations, 23 May, 2016

France/Russia animation

Ladislaw Starewicz
first film The Tale of the Fox completed in 1930
features anthropomorphic animals wearing clothes and standing upright

He also created an anti-semitic version (1943) that attracted the patronage of the Nazis.

France/Czech Republic
Berthold Bartosch
moved to Berlin 1919 and worked with Lotte Reiniger, Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter and Walter Ruttman
moved to Paris 1930 and made L'Idee based on book of woodcuts by Frans Masereel
drawings on multi levels of glass and achieved soft lighting effects by backlighting and smearing glass with soap

France/Russia/USA
Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker
used pinscreen devidce made of hundreds of pins that slid in and out of grid to produce relief shadow images when lit from side
Night on Bald Mountain 1932
influenced Disney's Fantasia
Le Nez

Joy of Living 

Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin

Japan
toy box: picture book 1936 Momotaro v. Mickey Mouse
popular folk talk character who appeared in propaganda cartoons to motivate japanese to arm for war