Quirino Cristiani
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Quirino Cristiani was an Italian-born Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound: t
Photo of Quirino Cristiani for the Dibujantes Magazine, 1955
Cristiani showing in 1956 the cut and articulated figure of his satirical character El Peludo (based on President Yrigoyen); Cristiani patented these figures in 1916 for the realization of his films.
Hipólito Yrigoyen
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Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 1928 until his overthro
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…presented himself. The national elections of 1916 peacefully ended the 36-year-long rule of the Conservative Party and placed Radical Party leader Hipólito Yrigoyen in the president's seat. Yrigoyen favoured the lower middle class, especially in Buenos Aires, and granted unprecedented freedom to the press. The…
Yrigoyen, c. 1920s
Plaza Constitución railway station in 1920. Yrigoyen lived on the nearby Avenida Brasil until his death in 1933. Years later, his house was demolished to make way for the Arturo Frondizi Highway.
Ruins of Las Flores estancia, nearby one of Yrigoyen's properties
Plaque in the Constitución neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where Yrigoyen's house was located