The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox

The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015), whose creation was intended to revolutionize the animation industry.

Documentary History

Jacques Chaussepied

(Self - Narrator (voice))

Christine Dejoux

(Self)

Maurice Corbet

(Self)

Pierre Mandrin

(Self)

Bernard Spehner

(Self)

Jean-Baptiste Garnero

(Self)

Serge Bromberg

(Self)

Melinda Littlejohn

(Self)

Francis Coupigny

(Self)

Marco de Blois

(Self)

Jocelyne Tournet-Lammer

(Self)

Marcello Zane

(Self)

Geoffrey Nathanson

(Self)

Gerald Scarfe

(Self)

Paul Demeyer

(Self)

Jean Dejoux

(Self (archive footage))

Peter Foldès

(Self (archive footage))

Claude Piéplu

(Self (archive footage))

Jean Yanne

(Self (archive footage))

Daniel Prévost

(Self (archive footage))

Pierre Schaeffer

(Self (archive footage))

Pierre Sainderichin

(Self (archive footage))

Jacques Rouxel

(Self (archive footage))

Kaj Pindal

(Self (archive footage))

Robert Benayoun

(Self (archive footage))

René Borg

(Self (archive footage))

Danièle Gilbert

(Self (archive footage))

Robin Williams

(Self (archive footage))

Chuck Jones

(Self (archive footage))

Mia Farrow

(Self (archive footage))