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Viktor MINAKHIN
Виктор МИНАХИН
Viktor MINAKHINE
USSR, 1968, 1.24mn
Black and white, silent, animation
Kitty
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Кошечка
Le Petit chat
Koshechka
Directed by :
Viktor MINAKHIN
(Виктор МИНАХИН)
Writing credits :
Nikolay KONSTANTINOV
(Николай КОНСТАНТИНОВ)
Cinematography :
V. ZHURKIN
(В. ЖУРКИН)
Plot synopsis
In 1968, Russian scientists made a mathematic model of a walking cat on a BESM-4 computer. It “rendered” the resulting animation to a printer and was then photographed by motion picture camera.
“Kitty”: One of the First-Ever Computer Animations
Commentaries and bibliography
Кошечка
[Про первый советский компьютерный мультфильм 1968 г.]
, etudes.ru, 2008
Николай Константинов: "Знает ли кошка, что она не настоящая?" [Про фильм "Кошечка",1968]
, offline.computerra.ru, 2006
Selected in the following festivals or events :
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Russian or Soviet animated films (1906-1991)
, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
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Animated film directors. Russia-USSR 1906-1991
, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
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