<P> The world's first animated feature film was El Apóstol (1917), made by Italian - Argentine cartoonist Quirino Cristiani utilizing cutout animation . Cristiani also directed the first animated feature film with sound, Peludópolis, released with a vitaphone sound - on - disc synchronization system soundtrack . Unfortunately, a fire that destroyed producer Federico Valle's film studio incinerated the only known copies of the movies, and they are now considered as lost films . </P> <P> In 1932, the first short animated film created entirely with technicolor (the trichromatic procedure (green, red, blue), whose use required a triple photographic impression, incorporation of chromatic filters and cameras of enormous dimensions) was Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, directed by Burt Gillett . </P> <P> Films at the time were no longer than one reel, although some multi-reel films had been made on the life of Christ in the first few years of cinema . The first feature length multi-reel film in the world was the 1906 Australian production called The Story of the Kelly Gang . </P> <P> It traced the life of the legendary infamous outlaw and bushranger Ned Kelly (1855--1880) and ran for more than an hour with a reel length of approximately 4,000 feet (1,200 m). It was first shown at the Athenaeum Hall in Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia on 26 December 1906 and in the UK in January 1908 . </P>

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