Page "Cinema of Poland" Paragraph 6

The earliest surviving feature film, the Antoś pierwszy raz w Warszawie ( Antoś for the First Time in Warsaw ) was made in 1908 by Antoni Fertner.

The date of its première, October 22, 1908, is considered the founding date of Polish film industry.

Soon Polish artists started experimenting with other genres of cinema: in 1910 Władysław Starewicz made one of the first animated cartoons in the world-and the first to use the stop motion technique, the Piękna Lukanida ( Beautiful Lukanida ).

By the start of World War I the cinema in Poland was already in full swing, with numerous adaptations of major works of Polish literature screened ( notably the Dzieje grzechu, Meir Ezofowicz and Nad Niemnem.