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El Apostol
El Apostol (The Apostle) is a 1917 Argentine animated cartoon, and also thought to be world's first animated feature film. It was written and directed by Quirino Cristiani, and consisted of a total of 58,000 frames played over the course of 70 minutes (which would have meant 14 FPS). The film was a satire, with President Hipolito Yrigoyen ascending to the heavens to use Jupiter's thunderbolts to cleanse Buenos Aires of immorality and corruption. The result is a burnt city.
The film is believed to have been well-received by audiences at the time. Despite this, no known copies of the film have survived, so it is now considered a lost film.
See also
List of animated feature-length films
List of lost films
External links
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