Se-ma-for was a Polish film and

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. Founded in

Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...

, Poland in 1947, the company has created many

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s and

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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 shut down in 2018. Its most famous productions include the children's shows: '' Miś Uszatek'', '' Tots TV'', '' Przygody misia Colargola'', '' The Moomins'' (pol. ''Opowiadania Muminków''), ''Troubles the Cat'', '' Przygody kota Filemona'', '' Przygód kilka wróbla Ćwirka'', '' Zaczarowany ołówek'', and the film ''

Peter and the Wolf ''Peter and the Wolf'' ( rus, Петя и волк, Pétya i volk, p=ˈpʲetʲə i volk) Op. 67, a "symphonic tale for children", is a Program music , programmatic musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. The narrator tells a ...

''. 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 Culture was established. In September 2016, the studio and the Animation Museum moved to the WIMA post-industrial complex at al. Piłsudskiego 135. In 2017, the studio was moved to the building at ul. Sienkiewicza 100, where it operated until May 2018. In May 2018, after the president's resignation and his departure from Poland, the studio's activity was suspended.

''Peter and the Wolf''

In February 2008, one of its short animated films, ''

'' directed by Suzie Templeton and Marek Skrobecki as the chief set designer and co-director, received the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It was the second Oscar-winning film made by the studio - the first came in the same category in 1982 – '' Tango'' by

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 Stat ...

. The principal photography was shot entirely in within the Se-ma-for animation studios in

, Poland.

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