TALENT ANIMATION
Rein Raamat
Fathers
OF ESTONIAN ANIMATION Adventures of the Juku the Dog
April 30, 2021 marks the 90th anniversary of the first known Estonian animation film Adventures of Juku the Dog (1931) that was coincidentally discovered in the Central State Archive of the Russian SFSR fifty years after the film was made.
By Aurelia Aasa Photos Estonian Film Institute & Film Archive of the National Archives of Estonia
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dventures of a dog with long ears, inspired by Disney’s Mickey Mouse. The authors – Voldemar Päts, Elmar Jaanimägi and Aleksander Teppor – created a landmark that can be called the beginning of Estonian animation. However, experiments in the field of animation were interrupted by the war and the post-war public order; it was years later when Elbert Tuganov, Heino Pars and Rein Raamat started to create the surrealistic animation tradition that made the Estonian animation famous around the world. 2020 marked Tuganov’s 100th and Pars’s 95th birth an-
