Animation: A World History

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, my gratitude goes to my contributors, especially to the memory of Francesca Pirotta, who didn’t live long enough to see the book published.

Second, no endeavour would have been successful without the help of the filmmakers themselves, whom I will not list in a page that doesn’t deal with their art.

With warmth and generosity, the following people made it possible to create this book. (The list is voluntarily and freely chaotic.):

John Canemaker, Heitor Capuzzo, Michael Barrier, Leonard Maltin, Rastko Ćirić, Adam Abraham, Ron Diamond, Amid Amidi, Chris Robinson, Marcin Gizycki, Don Crafton, Lara Ermacora, Michal Husák, Anna Catella, Clarissa Filippini, Michel Roudévitch, Alice Dugoni, Andrew Osmond, Ricardo ...