북한 최초의 애니메이션 작품 연구

초록

North Korea was early in recognizing movies and animations as powerful means of instigating and refining the general public. Accordingly, in the case of North Korea, decisions were made and supports for the production of animations were pro- vided at the government level with definitive goals from the beginning. For such reason, the first animation in North Korea is an important starting point in understanding the identity of animation in North Korea. Since there are numerous and differing arguments on the year of the production and the title of the animation in South Korea, this Study aims to prove that the animation film <Golden axe and iron axe> and puppet movie <Amazing peach> produced in 1960 are the first animation works in North Korea through verification works. North Korea had at least 5 years of preparations for the pro- duction of these 2 animation works, including cultural exchange and cooperation with socialist countries such as the former USSR, China and Czechoslovakia at the time. Both of these works have the descriptive similarity that both are adaptations of tradi- tional fairy tales of Korea, which has become the characteristic descriptive format of the animations of North Korea thereafter. Moreover, the achievements and shortcomings il- lustrated in the formative aspects of the characters and backgrounds became an im- portant foundation for the progress of animation in North Korea.

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