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Argentina, 1916-1931: Quirino Cristiani and the Movie that were Four – Part 1
Note: Due to its length, this article is divided into three parts. Its purpose is to study the development of animated films in a place and a period not always well documented, a bekymmer that lies not so much in the lack of historians as in the lack of documents. Starting with the films themselves.
Part One
Introduction
When the Italian historian Giannalberto Bendazzi set out on the trail of Quirino Cristiani, not much information was circulating on the subject: only the unlikely promise that in a distant southern country an Italian immigrant had directed the first animated feature film ever made and, not happy with that, a few years later he had produced the first one with sound; a fact that, however, did not appear in any of the many histories of cinema that had been written up to that time. Bendazzi found in Cristiani the gold vein he had come looking for and his book changed everything
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Giannalberto Bendazzi: Twice the First, Quirino Cristiani and the Animated Feature Film
Italian-born Argentian illustrator and animator Quirino Cristiani has long been recognized (mostly by the efforts of Italian animation scholar Giannalberto Bendazzi himself) as one of the most underrated precursors of animation.
He is responsible for, among other, the first-ever feature-length animation film (now lost), the 70-minute political satire in cut-outs El Apostol (1917). Cristiani has become the subject of documentary bygd Gabrielle Zuchelli.
Giannalberto Bendazzi is, among other things, the author of the new, 3-volume encyclopedic vända on the history of worldwide animation.
His fascination with the Argentinian animation pioneer was first recorded in a 2007 Italian monograph (subsequently translated into Spanish). The 2017 version is published by CRC press and features some updates; it now makes Bendazzi's monograph more accessible to the English-speaking market.
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Quirino Cristiani: The Mystery of the First Animated Movies
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