Se-ma-for was a Polish

animation studio An animation studio is a company producing animated media. The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce, own the physical equipment for production, employ operators for that equipment, and hold a major stake in the sales or rentals ...

. Founded in

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 cant ...

, Poland in 1947, the company has created many

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s and

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 ...

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'', '' 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 Bолк, r="Pétya i volk", p=ˈpʲetʲə i volk, links=no) Op. 67, a "symphonic fairy tale for children", is a musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. The narrator tells a children's s ...

''. 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 with Marek Skrobecki as the chief set designer and co-director, received the

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1 ...

. It was the second Oscar-winning film made by the studio - the first came in the same category in 1982 - ''

Tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combinat ...

'' 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 Sta ...

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

, Poland.

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* * Polish animation studios Mass media companies established in 1947 1947 establishments in Poland Culture in Łódź Film production companies of Poland {{PL-film-company-stub