Upa en apuros

Upa en apuros
Directed byDante Quinterno
Written byDante Quinterno
Edited byTito Davison
Music byMelle Weersma
Release date
  • November 20, 1942 (1942-11-20) (Buenos Aires)
Running time
12 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

Upa en apuros is a 1942 Argentine short animated colour film written and directed by Dante Quinterno.[1] The film premiered on November 20, 1942 at the Ambassador cinema in Buenos Aires. At the 1943 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Quinterno won the Special Prize (Premio especial) for the film due to it being the first animated colour film in Argentine and Latin-American cinema.[2]

It's an adaptation of the Argentine comic strip Patoruzú.

  1. ^ "Upa en apuros" (in Spanish). Cinenacional.com. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  2. ^ "Historia de la Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la República Argentina" (in Spanish). Puestaenescena.com.ar. Retrieved 27 May 2014.