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  • The Wild Robot
    animation
    / Animation in Europe

    Alexandre Alexeïeff, developed the pinscreen, a board perforated by some 500,000 pins that could be raised or lowered, which created patterns of light and shadow that gave the effect of an animated steel engraving. It took Alexeïeff two years to create A Night on Bald Mountain (1933), which used…

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    Alexandre Alexeïeff, developed the pinscreen, a board perforated by some 500,000 pins that could be raised or lowered, which created patterns of light and shadow that gave the effect of an animated steel engraving. It took Alexeïeff two years to create A Night on Bald Mountain (1933), which used…

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