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 :
- Animated film directors. Russia-USSR 1906-1991, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian or Soviet animated films (1906-1991), kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023

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