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    Jiří Trnka

    1912-02-24 (112 years old) in Plzeň, Rakousko-Uhersko

    A graduate of Prague's School of Arts and Crafts, in 1936 he created a puppet theater, which was disbanded after the outbreak of WWII. During the war he designed stage sets and illustrated children's books. In 1945 he set up an animation unit with several collaborators at the Prague film studio; they called the unit "Trick Brothers." Trnka specialized in puppet animation, a traditional Czech art form, of which he became the undisputed master. He also created animated cartoons, but it was his puppet animation that made him an internationally recognized artist and the winner of film festival awards at Venice and elsewhere. He wrote the scripts for most of his own films.

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    Jirí Trnka: Puppet Animation Master
    0 %|Jan 1, 1999
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    Jiří Trnka
    0 %|Jan 26, 1967
    Documentary
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    Skutečnost Noci svatojánské
    0 %|Jul 24, 1959
    Documentary
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    To jsou Bratři v triku
    0 %|Jan 1, 1957
    Documentary
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    Loutky Jiřího Trnky
    0 %|Jan 30, 1956
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