Berthold Bartosch
Berthold Bartosch ( December 29, 1893 in Polaun, Bohemia; † 13 November 1968, Paris) was a German animator and film director.
Life
Bartosch was unable to walk because of a life-long polio. He was in Vienna in 1911 a two-year internship as a draftsman in an architect. From 1913 - 1917 he studied architecture and art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Bartosch came to Berlin in 1920 and became a member of silhouette animation filmmaker Lotte Reiniger, among others, The Adventures of Prince Achmed and Doctor Dolittle and his animals.
1930 moved to Paris Bartosch. There he created the film The idea of a 30-minute animated film based on the eponymous woodcut novel by Frans Masereel. His figures were made of painted cardboard, the backgrounds of layers of tissue paper. Unlike Lotte Reiniger's silhouette films Bartosch worked with various lights to show the painted front of the figures. Smoke and fog he produced by soap foam on glass, he lit from below. Noteworthy is his use of a trick table a number of levels, with which he anticipated Disney's famous multiplane camera (he had a similar structure met at cleaner).
"The idea " is generally regarded as one of the first serious, even tragic animated films. He is also probably the first film ever to an electronic instrument employed in his music by Arthur Honegger composed the music for Ondes Martenot.
1935-1939 Bartosch worked on the anti-war film St. Francis or dreams and nightmares, but this was lost during the German occupation of Paris in the Cinémathèque Française. 1948 Bartosch worked for UNESCO in Paris and also taught George Dunning ( Yellow Submarine ).