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When the two trailblazers of animated film finally met in 1941,

the one named Walt Disney was quickly becoming a legend.

The other, an Argentine named Kirino Cristiani,

was on an equal but opposite trajectory toward obscurity.

Despite their different upbringings, the two men were attracted to film in similar ways.

For each of them, a childhood passion for drawing evolved into experimentation with political cartooning as the Great War

loomed over the world.

Driven by a well-developed perfectionist streak and a knack for innovative thinking, each of the

animators experimented with animated cutouts, then hand-drawn animation.

Their accomplishments in pioneering feature-length animated motion pictures

wowed their audiences and earned them praise in success.

Both were renowned in their day, but the American had become far better celebrated.

Disney had persisted through major challenges and found unalloyed success.

Cristiani had also overcome a number of steep obstacles, but found mostly bad luck. Although Cristiani earned fame for two milestone achievements, the first feature-length animated

motion picture, 1917, and the first one with a pre-recorded soundtrack,

1931, most of his films met with unfortunate ends.

As a result, his story has slipped into undeserved obscurity.

Kareno Kristiani was born on the 2nd of July 1896 in the town of Santa

Joleta, Italy, not far from Milan.

He was the youngest of five children born to Luigi Cristiani, a civil servant, and

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