Kaiser (film)
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''Kaiser'' is a
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animated Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most anim ...
film, directed by the
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Álvaro Marins, the Seth, in 1917. It is considered the first cartoon produced in Brazil. The film premiered on January 22, 1917, at Cine Pathé in
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, months before
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declared war on
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and started its participation in
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. It consisted of a
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, showing the emperor
Wilhelm II Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (german: Kaiser) and King of Prussia, reigning from 15 June 1888 until his abdication on 9 November 1918. Despite strengthening the German Empir ...
putting on his head a helmet that represented the control over the world. Then, a
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grew and swallowed the German leader. Since 1907 the Brazilian cinemas already presented/displayed animated vignettes in the closure of the newsreels. However, ''Kaiser'' was the first Brazilian autonomous animation to be shown. The whereabouts of the work were already unknown 20 years after its release. The film was not preserved and is now a
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, leaving only a still frame.


Legacy

Unfortunately, the film was not preserved and was lost forever, leaving only a reference image of the work. To honor the artist and his creation, the director of the film '' Luz, Anima, Ação'', Eduardo Calvet, invited 8 Brazilian animators of different techniques: Marão (
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), Zé Brandão ( digital 2D), Still (animation on paper), Pedro Iuá (
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), Marcos Magalhães (animation in film), Diego Akel (
pixilation Pixilation is a stop motion technique in which live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames. The actor beco ...
), Fábio Yamaji (light painting) and Rosana Urbes (metalanguage). It was shown in August at
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2013.


See also

* History of Brazilian animation *
Brazil during World War I During World War I (1914–1918), Brazil initially adopted a neutral position, in accordance with the Hague Convention, in an attempt to maintain the markets for its export products, mainly coffee, latex and industrial manufactured items. Howev ...


References

{{Authority control History of animation Lost animated films Lost Brazilian films 1910s animated short films Brazilian animated films 1917 animated films 1917 films 1917 short films 1917 lost films Brazilian short films Cultural depictions of Wilhelm II Films about royalty