The Golden Age of Kazakh Animation

A land that was home for many singers, poets, composers and writers of the steppe, has given a birth to animation considerably late than any other parts. It is due to Russian influence Amen Khaidarov took courage to create first Kazakh animation in 1967 in studio of Almaty City, “Kazakhfilm”. I find a strange, yet interesting parallelism in Amen Khaidarov’s personality and Normen McLaren’s biographical parts related to the work in National Film Board. They have a lot in common. Both of them could not resist temptation to express themselves in animation for the first time in governmental studio. Both of them started everything from zero in this field, and eventually, after time-consuming and challenging tasks they deserved to be remembered for many generations. The first child of Kazakh animation was not created from vacuum. There is a solid fundament for the school of animators from every single part of USSR: “Soyuzmultfilm” acquired a prestigious status in animation art; Georgian, Ukrainian, Armenian studios independently built up their own animation different from their cinematography.