El Apóstol, first animated feature film
El Apóstol, primer largometraje de animación
- Date
- 9 de noviembre de 1917 · confidence high
- Place
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Credited to
- Quirino Cristiani
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A political satire of about 70 minutes on President Yrigoyen, made with articulated cut-outs animated frame by frame by Cristiani. It is considered the first animated feature film in history; no copy survives.
The film was lost in a fire in 1926; The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926) is the oldest surviving animated feature. Some critics have debated its length and the facts of its premiere.
What it led to
- Argentine animated cinema (Peludópolis, 1931, with sound)
- A forerunner of the animated feature worldwide