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Born August 1, 1901 · Kazan, Russian Empire [now Tatarstan, Russia]
Russian-born French experimental short artist who with his wife, American-born Claire Parker, invented the pinscreen animation technique. He is most known for designing the prologue sequence for Orson Welles's The Trial. He grew up in Constantinople, then the Ottoman Empire. His landmark work, Night on Bald Mountain (1933) was a fusion of musical piece and imagery, seven years before Wait Disney attempted the same piece as part of Fantasia (1940). Two years later he would produce the first promotional film in France made in color.
Three Moods
1980
Pictures at an Exhibition
1972

The Nose
1963
At the Pinboard
1960

Études des solides illusoires
1960

Cocinor
1957

Osram
1956

Pure Beauty
1954

Essais pendulaires
1951

En passant
1943
En passant: Making of
1943

Chants populaires nº 5
1943
About Gold
1939
Aroma
1939
Pulling Four Needles
1939
Card Game
1939
Jaffa
1939
Study on the Harmony of Lines
1938
Great Fires
1938
Huilor, de l'or
1937
Evian
1937

New Stars
1937
The Artist's Palette
1937
Deux amies
1936

Opta empfängt
1936
Lingner Werke
1936
Naissance de Vénus
1936
Davros Ronde
1936
Cenra
1936

Sleeping Beauty
1935

Parade of Hats
1935
The Throne of France
1935
The Two Armies
1935

A Night on Bald Mountain
1933