When it delves into the annals of history of animation, It is inevitable that Walt Disney may have been who carried out the first animated film. But nevertheless, the answer is incorrect since the true hero in this sense is much closer than you think.

The name in question is that of Quirino Cristiani, an Italian nationalized Argentine, who put the story created and directed by Federico Valle in "The Apostle" image, animated film made in 1917.

For "The Apostle" Cristiani made 58 thousand drawings were employed producing the film, in time 12 months. In a game of comparison, this national film launched 20 years before "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Walt Disney.

It is said in this context that self Disney, while traveling in Spain, He tried to hire the painter and cartoonist, receiving a negative response since Cristiani had forged strong ties with Argentina.

What told the story of "The Apostle"? it was nothing less than a political satire based on Hipolito Yrigoyen. The plot narrated that the protagonist died and went to heaven, where he immediately began a lightning storm to clean up corruption in Buenos Aires.

Cristiani meanwhile also take place a year later the second animated feature world, "Without a trace" was perhaps more symbolic by the fact that the second creation of this type of content, because it was censored because of their social content and political (He is narrating an event of World War I.).

Unfortunately there are no copies of these films because of two fires in her study.

Since its arrival in the country, Quirino Cristiani always lived in Argentina until his death, occurred in the city of Bernal 1984.

CAPTION: Quirino Cristiani working in the studio