Do you know what was the first Russian cartoon?
The premiere of “The Beautiful Lucanida, or the War of the Mustachioed and the Horned Man” took place on April 8, 1912, and director Vladislav Starevich used to create animation not from cartoon characters or from puppets, but from real dissected insects. The audience was sure they were watching an ordinary movie with trained insects!
Many things have changed since then. Soviet cartoons became real works of art – carefully thought out and beautifully drawn. It seems to us that we remember each of them frame by frame, but is that so? Let’s check!
Let’s start!
Let’s warm up: what cartoon is this final scene from?