Vietnamese Animation

While the country was still divided, animation continued to develop, particularly in the North. In 1959, Le Minh Hien and Truong Qua, who studied at Soyuzmultfilm in Moscow, held training courses for young animators. Even before a State-sponsored studio opened in Hanoi in 1962, Le Minh Hien released What the Fox Deserves (1960). Filmed with makeshift equipment, it was an allegory for the necessity of working together to defeat the enemy. Animated puppets appeared in 1962 in a Vietnamese tale, The Hare Goes to School (1960), by the Czechoslovakian-trained Nguyen Tik.

Despite inexperience and a lack of means, work continued. In 1966,...