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Valentina Brumberg
Валентина Брумберг
Life Time
2 August 1899 - 28 November 1975
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Those from film and television viewers who are under 40 and over 40 years old, probably in childhood watched the cartoons “Cat in Boots”, “Magic Wand”, The capricious princess and others created by director and animator Valentina Brumberg. But if the famous directors of the "big movie" many know at least by surnames, the creators of cartoons few remember. Valentina Burmberg was neither super famous nor particularly popular. Although cartoons created by Valentina Semenovna (often together with her
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Those from film and television viewers who are under 40 and over 40 years old, probably in childhood watched the cartoons “Cat in Boots”, “Magic Wand”,
The capricious princess and others created by director and animator Valentina Brumberg. But if the famous directors of the "big movie" many know at least by surnames, the creators of cartoons few remember. Valentina Burmberg was neither super famous nor particularly popular. Although cartoons created by Valentina Semenovna (often together with her younger sister Zinaida, also an animator) became classics of Soviet animation.
Valentina Brumberg was born in 1899. Together with her sister, they studied at the gymnasium (the year of difference) and sketched textbook fields with funny pictures, for which they received “full program”. Words such as animation and animation, the girls, of course, did not know, but, as Valentina later admitted, many of their then drawings became the basis for cartoons.
In 1924, Valentina graduated from VKHUTEMAS and worked in the first experimental animation workshop at the State Cinematography College. We are all used to cartoons “on TV” and few people know that animation was born on the stage. In 1927, director Natalia Sats first introduced animation in a play for children at the Moscow Children's Theatre. The Brumeberg sisters worked on the performances “The Negro and the Monkey” and “About Juba”.
Valentina experimented a lot, and the results of her experiments later became the basis of new animation styles. For example, the film “Big Troubles” in 1961 was created in the style of a children’s drawing.
Valentina Semyonovna worked almost until the last years of her life and until the last day she remained optimistic and surprised others with mischief and unpredictability. She wanted to take a picture in Giza riding a camel, and she climbed on it. Nothing particularly remarkable, except for what Valentine Brumberg was already over 70.