ABSTRACT
The first Lithuanian sound film The Dream of a Fatty was created in 1938. This satirical puppet-animation film, made more than a decade after the appearance of the first global sound films, met with great success. Its artistic qualities, fascinating puppets and original style still command attention, and it is worthy to be presented more broadly than as an example of regional film history. Although puppet animation in contemporary Lithuanian cinema does not occupy a prominent place, early Lithuanian cinema presentations were held in that genre. The first documented puppet-animated film Lucanus Cervus (1910) by Ladislas Starevich, the pioneer of 3D puppet animation, also was created in Kaunas, Lithuania (at the time a part of the Russian Empire).
