The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox

May 12, 2022

0h 55m

★ 8.0

Overview

The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015), whose creation was intended to revolutionize the animation industry.

Genres

Documentary

History

Production Companies

AAA Production

Vià93

AKTV

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Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Jacques Chaussepied

Self

Christine Dejoux

Self

Maurice Corbet

Self

Pierre Mandrin

Self

Bernard Spehner

Self

Jean-Baptiste Garnero

Self

Serge Bromberg

Self

Melinda Littlejohn

Self

Francis Coupigny

Self

Marco de Blois

Self

Jocelyne Tournet-Lammer

Self

Marcello Zane

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