8Silent Latin America
Mexico
According to the Índice cronológico del cine mexicano,1 the first animated film of the country is Mi sueño, made in 1915 by an unknown author. The first animator whose name we know is Miguel Angel Acosta2 (or Alcorta), who animated some cut-outs in 1929 (Luis Strempler mentions ‘more than two hundred productions of animated films of about thirty seconds each’).3
According to Manuel Rodríguez Bermúdez,4 we must also mention painter and poster artist Juan Arthenack (1891–1940) among the pioneers. Arthenack collaborated with various magazines and developed some successful comic strips, such as Don Prudencio y su familia and Adelaido el conquistador. In 1919, he directed (and starred in) the live-action film El rompecabezas ...
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