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Se-ma-for
Se-ma-for was a Polish List of animation studios, animation studio. Founded in Łódź, Poland in 1947, the company has created many animated cartoons and stop motion animations for young and older audiences. The name, meaning literally ''Se-ma-phore'', is an acronym of ''Studio Małych Form Filmowych'' - Studio of Small Film Forms. The studio was defuncted in 2018. Its most famous productions include the children's shows: ''Miś Uszatek'', ''Les Aventures de Colargol, Przygody misia Colargola'', ''The Moomins (TV series), The Moomins'' (pol. ''Opowiadania Muminków''), ''Troubles the Cat'', ''Kot Filemon, Przygody kota Filemona'', ''Przygód kilka wróbla Ćwirka'', ''Zaczarowany ołówek'', and the film ''Peter and the Wolf (2006 film), Peter and the Wolf''. Józef Skrobiński worked at this studio for some time. From June 2008 to September 2016, the studio was located at ul. Targowa 1/3 on the premises of the old EC1 heat and power plant, where the National Center for Film Cul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter And The Wolf (2006 Film)
''Peter & the Wolf'' ( pl, Piotruś i wilk, links=no) is a British-Norwegian-Polish stop-motion animated short film released in 2006. Written and directed by Suzie Templeton and scenography by Marek Skrobecki, it was made in Se-ma-for Studios in Łódź and has been shown in cinemas, sometimes with live musical accompaniment. The film won the Academy Award for the Best Animated Short Film at the 80th Academy Awards. Plot On the edge of the vast forests of Russia, where wolves still roam, lies a little cottage surrounded by a big, high fence. This is where Peter lives with his grumpy grandfather. Peter is an 11-year-old boy who is constantly picked on by the town's people and his grandfather will not let Peter go out into the forest. Peter has a friend, the lovable Duck (a runner duck in this version), with whom he hangs around his grandfather's yard. A bird (a hooded crow in this version) with a broken wing arrives in the yard. Bird is impatient with Peter and signals him to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miś Uszatek
Miś Uszatek (''Floppy Bear'', literally ''Teddy Floppy-ear'') is a Polish character from the stop motion-animated TV series of the same name. He was created jointly by Polish writer Czesław Janczarski and cartoonist Zbigniew Rychlicki.Muzeum Zabawek w Kielcach: Miś Uszatek Miś Uszatek's first appearance was in a Polish comic magazine for children, " Miś", on 6 March 1957. Later, he was the main character of several children's books, which were translated into many languages. However, Miś Uszatek became very popular in 1975, when Animated Forms Studio ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Zbigniew Rybczyński (; born 27 January 1949) is a Polish filmmaker, director, cinematographer, screenwriter, creator of experimental animated films, and multimedia artist who has won numerous prestigious industry awards both in the United States and internationally including the 1982 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for ''Tango''. He has taught cinematography and digital cinematography, and has worked as a researcher of blue and greenscreen compositing technology at Ultimatte Corporation. He is renowned for his innovative audiovisual techniques and for his pioneering experimentation in the field of new image technology. In March 2009, Rybczyński returned to Poland, taking up residence in Wrocław, where he has set up the Center for Audiovisual Technologies (CeTA) at the site of the city's historic Feature Film Studio. The center, which officially opened in January 2013, includes a state-of-the-art studio designed by Rybczyński for the production of multi-layer f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moomins (TV Series)
''The Moomins'' ( Polish: ''Opowiadania Muminków'', German: ''Die Mumins'') is a stop motion animated children's television series based on the Tove Jansson's Moomin series of books which was produced by Se-ma-for and Jupiter Film between 1977 and 1982 for Polish, Austrian and German television. The series was later sold to other countries including the UK. The British version was adapted by Anne Wood at FilmFair for ITV Central and broadcast in the UK. Series 1 was first shown on Monday 24 January 1983 at 4:15 pm and series 2 on Monday 7 January 1985 at 4.15pm on Children's ITV, and series 2 was repeated in 1986. The series was last repeated in its entirety in 1988. It was narrated by British actor Richard Murdoch. This series was the third series to be made based on the Moomin books. Two more were subsequently made. It is one of the two best-known Moomin series (along with the Japanese-made anime version ''Moomin'' (1990). The 1977–1982 stop-motion version has been criti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marek Skrobecki
Marek Skrobecki (born September 18, 1951 in Kalisz) is a Polish director of animated films, mainly using classical puppetry techniques. He works with the film studio Se-ma-for in Łódź. Biography He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts In Łódź. In 1990 he finished at the Faculty of Film Animation at National Film School in Łódź. He received grants from the British Council and worked at Jim Henson's Creature Shop and Aardman Animation in 1992. In 1988 he made his first film ''Episode''. Then he tried to draw cartoons for children's films. However, in 1992 with Se-ma-for cooperation he produced the film ''D.I.M'' having created human-size puppets for it. His technique was very innovative in the animation world and was successfully used in the future production, for example in ''Ichthys''. In 2006 he produced with Suzie Templeton a Polish-British co-production of ''Peter and the Wolf'', which was awarded the 2007 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. He worked wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaczarowany Ołówek
Zaczarowany ołówek (''Enchanted Pencil'') is a Poland cartoon from 1964 to 1976 made by Se-ma-for. The series had no dialogue. It tells a story of a boy named Piotr (Peter) and his dog, aided by an enchanted Pencil A pencil () is a writing or drawing implement with a solid pigment core in a protective casing that reduces the risk of core breakage, and keeps it from marking the user's hand. Pencils create marks by physical abrasion, leaving a trail ..., which can materialize anything they draw. There were 39 episodes total. The first 26 episodes have no linking story, but the last 13 are centered on the heroes' quest to save a shipwrecked refugee. They were remade into a movie in 1991. *Script: Adam Ochocki *Art: Karol Baraniecki *Music: Zbigniew Czernelecki and Waldemar Kazanecki External links * 1964 Polish television series debuts 1976 Polish television series endings 1960s Polish television series 1970s Polish television series 1960s animated televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Animation Studios
The following lists of animation studios presents current and former organizations similar to Studio, artists studios but principally dedicated to the production and distribution of animated films. Such studios may be actual production facilities or corporate entities. The countries with the most listed, active studios, are Japan, United States, Canada, United Kingdom and South Korea, but studios are found across all continents. Active studios Defunct studios See also * List of Japanese animation studios * List of animation distribution companies * Film genre * Motion graphic design References {{DEFAULTSORT:List of animation studios Animation studios, * Lists of companies by industry, Animation studios, List of Animation-related lists, Animation studios ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Łódź
Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canting arms, canting, as it depicts a boat ( in Polish language, Polish), which alludes to the city's name. As of 2022, Łódź has a population of 670,642 making it the country's List of cities and towns in Poland, fourth largest city. Łódź was once a small settlement that first appeared in 14th-century records. It was granted city rights, town rights in 1423 by Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and it remained a private town of the Kuyavian bishops and clergy until the late 18th century. In the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Łódź was annexed to Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia before becoming part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw; the city joined Congress Poland, a Russian Empire, Russian client state, at the 1815 Congress of Vien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stop Motion
Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back. Any kind of object can thus be animated, but puppets with movable joints (puppet animation) or plasticine figures (''clay animation'' or claymation) are most commonly used. Puppets, models or clay figures built around an armature are used in model animation. Stop motion with live actors is often referred to as pixilation. Stop motion of flat materials such as paper, fabrics or photographs is usually called cutout animation. Terminology The term "stop motion", relating to the animation technique, is often spelled with a hyphen as "stop-motion". Both orthographical variants, with and without the hyphen, are correct, but the hyphenated one has a second meaning that is unrelated to animation or cinema: "a device for automatical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Aventures De Colargol
''Les Aventures de Colargol'' is an animated television series which ran for 53 episodes of 13 minutes each, created by Albert Barillé after the Colargol created by Olga Pouchine and broadcast from November 9, to 1974 on the Deuxième chaîne de l’ORTF. The series has been successfully exported to many countries. In Quebec, it was broadcast in the fall of 1973 in the "Bagatelle" program block on Télévision de Radio-Canada. Background In 1969, Albert Barillé, independent producer, financed the series himself (in the face of opposition by French channel ORTF) and entrusted the production to Tadeusz Wilkosz, founder of the Polish studio Se-ma-for. Synopsis The happy and singing adventures of a bear cub named Colargol Colargol is a fictional bear created by French writer Olga Pouchine in the 1950s. Colargol first became famous through a series of children's recordings by Philips Records in the 1960s. It is the story of a little bear who wants to sing and tra ... w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kot Filemon
Przygody kota Filemona (''The Adventures of Filemon the Cat'') is a Polish animated cartoon. It ran for 39 episodes between 1972 and 1981. Production The series was created by Marek Nejman, a Polish screenplay writer, and produced by animation studio Se-ma-for in Łódź, Poland. Up to the 13th episode the series was called ''Dziwny świat kota Filemona'' (''The strange world of Filemon the Cat''). In the 1990s one full-length film and two more short ones were made. Animator Andrzej Bzdak took part in this project. Description The two main characters are: Filemon, a little white kitten, young and naïve; and Bonifacy, an old, serious black tomcat. Other characters are: the Grandmother, the Grandfather, the Puppy, a fox, mice, 'monsters from the attic', and other creatures. The cartoon is rich in elements of Polish folk legends and traditions. ''The Adventures of Filemon the Cat'' was narrated by actresses Teresa Sawicka (episodes 1-13) and Barbara Marszałek (episodes 14-39). E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Przygód Kilka Wróbla Ćwirka
Przygód kilka wróbla Ćwirka (A Few Adventures of Sparrow Tweet) was a Polish cartoon from 1983-1989 made by Se-ma-for Se-ma-for was a Polish List of animation studios, animation studio. Founded in Łódź, Poland in 1947, the company has created many animated cartoons and stop motion animations for young and older audiences. The name, meaning literally ''Se-ma-ph .... External links * Fictional passerine birds Polish children's animated television series 1989 Polish television series endings {{poland-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
