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From April 4 to 30 the Cervantes Institute along with the Pera Museum in Turkey will develop a children´s film cycle named Animadrid festival to mark the National Day for Children and Youth in Turkey. The Spanish animation film series is intended for all audiences.
Animadrid is an international animated picture festival that is held annually in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) and is organized by the Municipal Board of the City of Pozuelo de Alarcón and Vice President and Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Community of Madrid, to promote audiovisual entertainment and provide a meeting place for artists and audience.
The animation was born with cinema and the desire to bring realism to motion pictures. Background reports that Emile Reynaud spent 10 years projecting his images on the Grévin Museum of Paris, thanks to his invention of Praxinoscope in 1977. Since then and the invention of the Lumiere brothers, several lovers of motion picture ventured to develop the technique of animation.
However, the splendor of the animation was achieved by the brothers Max and Dave Fischer when using the technique perfected by Earl Hurd in Koko the Clown (1920) and the representation of the sexy singer Helen Kane, Betty Boop in (1930) whose poo-poo-pi-do sounds became a classic of American society.
Otto Messmer, avant-garde creator of the famous Felix the Cat for Pat Sullivan studies, revolutionized animation when giving personality and human features to animals, anticipating the creations of Walt Disney and other creators who gave life to cartoon animals. The success of his caricature lay in surreal fantasy Felix developed in his wild antics.
In 1950 the animated cartoon Gerald Mc Boing Boing from UPA Cartoons about a boy who only made some ??noise when talking and put their parents and medicine in check, won the Academy Award Oscar for best short film. United Productions of America (UPA) was one of the most interesting animation studios in their production of animated shorts. Founded in 1941, after the great strike of animators from Disney Studios, short animated films began producing with messages and themes considered too radical for a conservative industry. FBI investigations because of alleged communist connections made ??them lose the distribution contracts and they entered into a crisis, which led them to approach Colombia Picture, which would change the smart animation drawings by compliant animation that competed with other productions, such as the famous blind old billionaire Mister Magoo.
Animation is an art enjoyed by children and adults, that is why this cycle is an attractive meeting point for generations around movies: Balada de Benito, El ladrón navideño, Cortes celeste, Garto, Tadeo Jones, ¿Por qué?, Pocoyo y el circo espacial, Cuentos de A and Top Gum.
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