Professional Practise 1
World Animation
South Africa
- William Kentridge, an artist known in South Africa, gave voice to political themes and oppression through various works. He released an animated short in 1989 named Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris. It is made using charcoal and erasing and re-drawing on the same surface.
Czechoslovakia
- Karel Dodal, a Czech filmmaker, specialising in Animation, studied the Animated Shorts of Felix the Cat to learn animation. He and his wife, Hermina Tyrlova formed a studio together, making advertisements and political animation, such as The Secret of the Lucerna Palace (1936) and Ideas in Search of Light (1938).
- Unfortunately, I was unable the find both animations, but only screenshots of them.
Israel/Australia
- Yoram Gross worked in live-action in Poland, his home country, before moving to Israel in 1950. He created the first feature-length animated film there, a stop-motion feature, Joseph the Dreamer in 1961.
- In 1968, he moved to Sydney, Australia, where he opened a studio with his wife, Sandra Gross. They produced the feature-length film, Dot and the Kangaroo (1977), which used combined media.
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