Background
LEVANDOVSKIY, Vyacheslav was born in 1897.
LEVANDOVSKIY, Vyacheslav was born in 1897.
1918 studied at Kiev Theatrical Academy. 1920-1922 studied at Ukraine Academy of Arts.
1920 started work as set-designer at Kiev theaters. Worked for various publ houses as artist, specializing in illustrating children's books From 1925 set-designer at Kiev Film studios, All-Ukraine Film Board.
Made animated cartoons using flat puppets and appliques. Made puppets and mountings for photographing them. 1926 transferred to Odessa Film Studios, All-Ukraine Film Board, where he made his first film and first Ukraine animed cartoon “Skazka o solomennom bychke’’ (The Tale of the Straw BullCalf) (1927).
1927 returned to Kiev and used the same process to film another folk tale “Skazka o belke-khozyayushke i myshke-zlodeyke” (The Tale of the Kind Squirrel Hostess and the Villainous Mouse) (1928). 1932 returned to Odessa Film Studios where he started work on his first animated sound cartoon “Tuk-Tuk i yego Priyatel' Zhuk’ (Rat-Tat and His Friend Beetle), which was finished in 1935, 1933 artist for Mosfil’m Studios. Director, script writer, scene-painter and puppeteer, maker of puppets and various devices lor photographing them.
1942-1945 artist and designer at Academy of Architecture in Moscow. 1945 returned to Mosfil’m Studios. Worked as modeler and designer.