Quirino Cristiani was an Italian-born Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound, even though the only copies of these two films were lost in a fire.
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Quirino Cristiani'sfamily moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1900, and Quirino spent his childhood soaking up the fast pace and left-leaning politics of the great southern metropolis.
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Quirino Cristiani would get his character designs from newspaper cartoonist Diogenes Taborda Quirino Cristiani managed to accomplish his goal, doing the lion's share of the animation, the 58,000-frame El Apostol premiered on November 9,1917 and destroyed in 1926.
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Quirino Cristiani saw the incident as the perfect opportunity, and with a new set of producers created the world's second feature-length animated film, Sin dejar rastros in 1918.
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Quirino Cristiani felt that the man was too dominated by the corrupt leaders of the Radical party.
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Quirino Cristiani converted the operation over to sound partway through, including a few songs in the soundtrack .
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Quirino Cristiani never had another chance for greatness in animation.
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Quirino Cristiani made three more animated films in his life, none of which were memorable.
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When Walt Disney came to Argentina as part of his Latin America research tour, Quirino Cristiani showed his films to him, then sent him to cartoonist Molina Campos, the source of the gaucho segment in Saludos Amigos .
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