Argentine Animated Features – Part 5: 2000-2003
Part five of my survey of Argentine animated feature films – today with films from such diverse directors as Juan Antin and Manuel García Ferré.
Part five of my survey of Argentine animated feature films – today with films from such diverse directors as Juan Antin and Manuel García Ferré.
Part four of my survey of Argentine animated feature films, today with films from the Patagonik group and Manuel García Ferré – featuring Dibu and Manuelita.
Continuing my chronologic survey of Argentine animated feature films, today with films by Carlos Marquez and Manuel García Ferré.
Manuel García Ferré (1929-2013) was roughly the Argentine Walt Disney. His main characters appeared in their own TV series and theatrical features; his supporting characters appeared in everything.
Argentine (or Argentinian) feature animation has been long over-looked, despite their claim to producing the first animated feature (in 1917)! Here begins a look at, and filmography of, the animated features that emerged from this South American country.
What do Walt Disney, Saul Steinberg and Hugo Pratt have in common? Short answer: Mr. Civita.
And so we conclude our brief two-part article on Azaro, Melgarejo and Bisso. Three geniuses in their own right.
In the latter years of the 60’s cartoons and comics were being watched keenly and closely by the intelligentsia – believe it or not!
The career of Guillermo Mordillo, who briefly worked for Famous Studios, was one of the best known Argentine cartoonists of the 20th century.
The abandonment of the animated feature film after 1918 did not mean that Argentina quit making cartoons.