The ''Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation'' (russian: Энциклопедия отечественной мультипликации;

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''Entsiklopediya otechestvennoy multiplikatsiyi'') is a collection of biographies and filmographies of the masters of

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Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

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. It was released at the

12th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film The 12th Open Russian Festival of Animated Film was held from March 1–5, 2007, in Suzdal, Russia. The winners for the main award categories were announced on March 4. The jury consisted of 33 professionals in professions related to animation. ...

in March 2007, and its general release happened on March 11.News release
at Animator.ru It is the first attempt at recording the complete history of Russian and Soviet animation.

Synopsis

The encyclopedia was written by Sergey Kapkov and compiled with the help of several journalists and editors over the course of a few years. A huge amount of information was gathered from interviews with living members of the profession. This was partly out of necessity because of the destruction of some archives in the post-Soviet period, notably that of

Soyuzmultfilm Soyuzmultfilm ( rus, Союзмультфи́льм, p=səˌjʉsmʊlʲtˈfʲilʲm , ''Union Cartoon'') (also known as SMF Animation Studio in English, Formerly known as Soyuzdetmultfilm) is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. Launched in ...

. В истории мультипликации почти не осталось тайн
''16-03-2007''. Утро. Letters with requests for help were sent out to all of the former Soviet republics, though in some countries such as

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and

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they were totally ignored.Энциклопедия мультипликации - впервые в России
. MIBF. Because so much information was dependent on oral sources, it was decided not to call it an academic edition. Kapkov said of the book, "we are not insured from some possible mistakes".

Content

The book contains 1050 biographies (each of which contains an exhaustive filmography) of people involved in animation of all sorts of different professions:Вышла «Энциклопедия отечественной анимации»
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Ladislas Starevich Ladislas Starevich (russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Старе́вич, pl, Władysław Starewicz; August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965) was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first pu ...

made the first Russian animated film with insect skeletons, to the present day.Энциклопедия отечественной анимации
''12-04-2007''. Utro-russia.ru The introduction, which summarizes this whole history, was written by Larisa Malyukova. Upon the book's release, many animators (especially from former Soviet republics) contacted the authors and provided additional information about themselves and their colleagues, as well as some factual corrections.

Reception

Because of this and the book's unexpected success at the book fair "Books of Russia" («Книги России»), future updated editions are planned.

References

External links

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070927225717/http://www.algoritm-kniga.ru/geuifbakiy/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=417&Itemid=32 Page at Algoritm-kniga Animation books Books about film 2007 non-fiction books Russian-language encyclopedias History of animation

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