A former professor at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and the Università degli Studi of Milan, Italian-born Giannalberto Bendazzi has been thoroughly investigating the history of animation for more than forty years. A founding member of the Society for Animation Studies, he authored or edited various classics in various languages, and has lectured extensively on every continent.

• Chapter 1 ◾ The Italians Who Invented the Drawn-on-Film Technique 1Chapter 2 ◾ Chromatic Music by Bruno Ginanni Corradini (1912) 11Chapter 3 ◾ The First Italian Animated Feature Film and Its Producer 21Chapter 4 ◾ Defining Animation: A Proposal 37Chapter 5 ◾ African Cinema Animation 47Chapter 6 ◾ Alexandre Alexeieff: Poems of Light and Shadow 65Chapter 7 ◾ The First Reviews of A Night on Bald Mountain 87Chapter 8 ◾ Dreams of Alexeieff 93Chapter 9 ◾ Bruno Bozzetto: His Early Years 97Chapter 10 ◾ Address: Rossi, Mitteleuropa 115Chapter 11 ◾ The Egg of Cohl 119

A former professor at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and the Università degli Studi of Milan, Italian-born Giannalberto Bendazzi has been thoroughly investigating the history of animation for more than forty years. A founding member of the Society for Animation Studies, he authored or edited various classics in various languages, and has lectured extensively on every continent.

• Chapter 1 ◾ The Italians Who Invented the Drawn-on-Film Technique 1Chapter 2 ◾ Chromatic Music by Bruno Ginanni Corradini (1912) 11Chapter 3 ◾ The First Italian Animated Feature Film and Its Producer 21Chapter 4 ◾ Defining Animation: A Proposal 37Chapter 5 ◾ African Cinema Animation 47Chapter 6 ◾ Alexandre Alexeieff: Poems of Light and Shadow 65Chapter 7 ◾ The First Reviews of A Night on Bald Mountain 87Chapter 8 ◾ Dreams of Alexeieff 93Chapter 9 ◾ Bruno Bozzetto: His Early Years 97Chapter 10 ◾ Address: Rossi, Mitteleuropa 115Chapter 11 ◾ The Egg of Cohl 119

A former professor at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and the Università degli Studi of Milan, Italian-born Giannalberto Bendazzi has been thoroughly investigating the history of animation for more than forty years. A founding member of the Society for Animation Studies, he authored or edited various classics in various languages, and has lectured extensively on every continent.

• Chapter 1 ◾ The Italians Who Invented the Drawn-on-Film Technique 1Chapter 2 ◾ Chromatic Music by Bruno Ginanni Corradini (1912) 11Chapter 3 ◾ The First Italian Animated Feature Film and Its Producer 21Chapter 4 ◾ Defining Animation: A Proposal 37Chapter 5 ◾ African Cinema Animation 47Chapter 6 ◾ Alexandre Alexeieff: Poems of Light and Shadow 65Chapter 7 ◾ The First Reviews of A Night on Bald Mountain 87Chapter 8 ◾ Dreams of Alexeieff 93Chapter 9 ◾ Bruno Bozzetto: His Early Years 97Chapter 10 ◾ Address: Rossi, Mitteleuropa 115Chapter 11 ◾ The Egg of Cohl 119