When no film was in production, Alosha was busy engraving, while Claire was busy with the minutiae of daily housekeeping. Both read a lot. He knew Russian, French, German, and English. She knew English and French and had learned Russian…
I met Alexandre Alexeïeff at the Abano Terme Animation Festival (Italy) in the spring of 1971. He was standing in front of the cinema hall, solemn and gracious at the same time. I introduced myself and he greeted me warmly.…
I must correct a mistake that I made and widespread. On the 1996 Spring issue of Animation Journal I published an essay entitled The Italians Who Invented the Drawn-On-Film Technique. The brothers Bruno and Arnaldo Ginanni Corradini, from Ravenna, had…
