Chinese animation and anime before anime – 1940-1949

In my series of posts about the Golden Age of Animation, I listed all my favorite cartoons from the big American animation studios. It’s time I take a look at the rest of the world’s part in the history of animation. While the animators from the U.S. were definitely more advanced at this point in time, there’s plenty of interesting works to be found on other continents. In countries like Russia, China, Japan,… animators were doing groundbreaking work to develop read more