Zagreb school of animated films is an animation

Animation

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 film studio located in Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

, Croatia

Croatia

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 and is a part of the Zagreb Film

Zagreb Film

Zagreb Film is a Croatian film-producing company from Zagreb, founded in 1953. They have produced hundreds of animated films, documentaries, television commercials, educational films and several feature films....

 company

Company

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. It is represented by authors like Nikola Kostelac, Vatroslav Mimica

Vatroslav Mimica

Vatroslav Mimica is an award-winning Croatian film director and screenwriter.Mimica had enrolled at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine before the outbreak of World War II. In 1942 he joined Young Communist League of Yugoslavia and in 1943 he went on to join the Yugoslav Partisans,...

, Dušan Vukotić

Dušan Vukotic

Dušan Vukotić was an award-winning cartoonist, author and director of animated films from Yugoslavia. He is the best known member of the Zagreb school of animated films....

 and Vladimir Kristl. The first major success was a Grand Prix award in Venice

Venice

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 for the animated short Samac (Lonely guy) by Vatroslav Mimica, and their greatest work so far is an Oscar-winning animated short Surogat by Dušan Vukotić. The studio was established in 1956.

This school has given over 400 film titles to the European film heritage.

Literature

• Filmska enciklopedija I. i II., Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, gl. urednik dr. Ante Peterlić, Zagreb, 1986. i 1990.,
• Zagrebački krug crtanog filma I (Građa za povijest hrvatske kulture), pedeset godina crtanog filma u Hrvatskoj, almanah 1922.-1972., uredio: Zlatko Sudović, Zagreb 1978.,
• Škrabalo, Ivo
  Ivo Škrabalo
  Ivo Škrabalo was a Croatian film critic, screenwriter, and member of parliament.Škrabalo was born in Sombor, where he finished elementary and high school before moving to Zagreb in 1952...
  
  : 101 godina filma u Hrvatskoj, 1896.-1997., Zagreb, Nakladni zavod Globus, 1998.,
• Filmska kultura, broj 81-82, Zagreb 1972., 50 godina animacije,
• Holloway, Ronald: “Z” is for Zagreb, London, The Tantivy Press, London,
• Munitić, Ranko: Uvod u estetiku kinematografske animacije, Filmoteka 16, Zagreb, 1983.,
• Denegri, Jerko: Exat 51, Nove tendencije, umjetnost konstruktivnog pristupa, Zagreb 2000.,
• Bendazzi, Giannalberto: Cartoons, One hundred years of cinema animation, John Libbey & Company Ltd., London 1994.