CHAPTER 9
Bruno Bozzetto*
BRUNO BOZZETTO BEGAN HIS artistic career in 1958 with Tapum! The History of Weapons. He was only twenty years old, and for four years he had been making narrow gauge films, learning and experimenting with animation techniques on his own. The film is admired everywhere, receives awards (in Mulhouse and Rapallo), and is favourably reviewed. In the traditionally poor panorama of Italian animated films, the name of the young Milanese became an obligatory point of reference from the first moment.
The second part of the 1950s is perhaps the most tumultuous period of Italian animation. Once the stammering of the pioneering generation had ended, and the attempts at full-length films had failed (La rosa di Bagdad ...
