Background
IVANOV, Aleksandr was born on June 5, 1899.
IVANOV, Aleksandr was born on June 5, 1899.
Graduate Tambov Teachers’ Training Institute and Tambov Art Studios.
Worked as cartoonist for newspapers Gudok, Rabochaya Moskva, et cetera From 1923 specialized in cartoon films. One of first Soviet cartoon-film artists.
1924 did animation sequences for film K nadzemnym pobedam (Victories on Land). 1926 founded animation studio at Sovkino Film Studios, where he produced propaganda films. Also drew political posters and cartoons, notably ’’Political Toys” (1925), ’’Second Industrialization Loan” (1928) and ’’The Chinese-Eastern Railroad” (1929).
Productions: Vor The Thief) (1935, co-production). Lisa-stroitel’ (Builder-Fox) 1936). Lyubimets publiki (The Popular Favorite) (1937).
Votshebnaya fleyta (The Magic Flute) (1938). Okhotnik Fyodor (Theodore the Hunter) (1939). Ne toptat’fashistskomu sapogu nashey Rodiny (Don’t Let Fascist Boots Trample Our Fatherland) (1941, co-production).
Lisa i drozd (The Fox and the Trushj (1947). Kvartet (Quartet) (1948). Champion (The Champion) (1948).
Zay i Chik (Rab and Bit) (1952). Krashenyy lis (The Painted Fox) (1953). V lesnoy chashche (In the Depths of the Forest) (1954).
Trubka i medved’ (The Pipe and the Bear) (1955). Podpis’ nerazborchiva (The Illegible Signature) (1955). Lesnaya istoriya (The Forest Story) (1956).
Chudesnitsa (The Sorceress) (1957), et cetera
Communist Party member from 1955.