Benjamin Rabier - L'Homme qui fait rire les animaux

Everybody knows the “Laughing Cow” but few people know the man who created the logo: Benjamin Rabier (1864-1939), a French artist who did drawings for comic book albums and animated cartoons and, in the process, virtually revolutionized the world of children’s illustration in the early 20th century. Rabier pioneered animated cartoons well before Walt Disney. He invented the character “Tintin Lutin” who inspired Hergé’s famous “Tintin,” and drew “Gédéon le Canard” (Gideon the duck) and, of course, “La Vache qui rit” (the laughing cow). He has gone down in history as "the man who made the animals laugh." This 53 minute film examines the life of this extraordinary artist.