The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
Release date: 2022-05-12
Votes: 3
Genres: Documentary, History
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.
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