Wojenne losy „polskiego Disneya”
“Polish Disney” On The War Front

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the wartime work of Włodzimierz Kowańko, a pioneer of animated film, draftsman, constructor and a soldier of Władysław Anders’ army. Using interviews, press articles, memoirs of other soldiers and drawings by Kowańko himself, Mróz tries to reconstruct Kowańko’s wartime wanderings after the defeat of the September campaign. At the beginning of the war, the artist travelled through the Siberian taiga as a Soviet prisoners and then he joined the Polish army. The article shows how Kowańko conducted his artistic activity despite the hardships of war and the situation of constant threats. The text is finally an attempt to define the way in which language-specific thinking in animation was present in his drawings and graphic, or theatrical work.

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