Part 3: Strange Interlude
The abandonment of the animated feature film after 1918 did not mean that Argentina quit making cartoons.
The abandonment of the animated feature film after 1918 did not mean that Argentina quit making cartoons.
Part 2 of our three-part series of the earliest animated features ever created.
Argentina had not produced the first animated feature, as historian Giannalberto Bendazzi claimed, but – most probably – the first four.
Babbit traveled to Argentina in 1942 to consult on a cartoon short. Here’s the story on that.