Aleksandr Ptushko (April 19, 1900 in Lugansk, Ukraine--March 6, 1973 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet animation and film director. April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Luhansk (Ukrainian: Луганськ, Luhansk; Russian: Луга́нск, Lugansk) is a city in southeastern Ukraine. ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Moscow (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskvá) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... The history of Russian animation is a very rich, but so far nearly unexplored field for Western film theory and history. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...

Filmography

• The New Gulliver, 1935, animation
• Sadko, 1953, fairy tale
• Ilya Muromets, 1956, fairy tale
• Sampo, 1959, mythological tale

Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a... A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ... A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ... Sampo is also a Finnish company in banking and insurance. ... This article is about a system of myths. ... Story has several different meaning as outlined below. ...

External links

• Aleksandr Ptushko (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0699693/) at the Internet Movie Database