ANIMATED STATES: THE POLITICS, AESTHETICS, AND TECHNOLOGY OF SOVIET AND GERMAN CEL ANIMATION, 1930-1940
Journal: D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2018

This dissertation compares animation industries in the USSR and Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. The industrial turn in animation production that took place in both countries at the time was aesthetically and technologically inspired by American animators Walt Disney and the Fleischer brothers. Two studios, Soiuzmul’tfil’m and Deutsche Zeichenfilm GmbH, founded in the USSR and Germany, respectively, adopted the conveyer method based on the celluloid (“cel”) technique. While considering the hi