About the Animator:
Jirí
Trnka (24 February 1912 Plzen - 30 December 1969 Prague)
was a Czech puppet maker, illustrator, motion-picture
animator and film director, renowned for his puppet
animations.
He
graduated from Prague School of Arts and Crafts. He created
a puppet theater in 1936. This group was dissolved when
World War II began, and he instead designed stage sets
and illustrated books for children throughout the war.
After the war ended, Trnka established an animation unit
at the Prague film studio. Trnka soon became internationally
recognized as the world's greatest puppet animator in
the traditional Czech method, and he won several film
festival awards. One animator called him "the Walt
Disney of the East". He won an award at the Cannes
Festival in 1946, just one year after he began working
in film. His films were mostly made for an adult audience.
Beginning in 1948, the communist Czech government began
to subsidize his work, although this did not seem to affect
the message or style of his work. He also created animated
cartoons. He wrote the scripts for most of his own films.
He died of heart trouble in 1969.
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Trnka - Walt Disney of the East!
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