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Slavko Vorkapich was a film director and editor, university professor and painter. After finishing primary education he became student of a well-known regional high-school , where he made his first steps in art and drawing.
With scholarship received from Matica srpska, Serbia highest cultural and scientific institution at the time, Vorkapich went to Budapest, Hungary, where he studied art.
Then, after the beginning of the He managed to enter Art Academy in Paris, but soon after, he moved to Montparnasse among other Avant-garde artists.
He took part in 1917 and 1919 collective painter exhibits.His dream to go to the United States was fulfilled in 1920.
Although he started his film career as a painter and an actor, he became best-known as a special effects expert, film artist, film teacher, director, editor and became one of the most respected filmmakers in the period between the two World Wars. Vorkapich made a great number of documentaries and experimental films, that served as classical film models for all future filmmakers..An effects technique, the vorkapich, is named after him. His protege, Art Clokey, learned kinescope animation techniques under him and went on to create the Gumby animated series. During 1950s he was in Yugoslavia where he made one of his last full-length movies Hanka.Slavko Vorkapi? died in Spain on the estate of his son on October 20, 1976.
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