Stefan Themerson - 1931 To 1935

1931 To 1935

During these years the Themersons lived and worked in Warsaw. Stefan contributed articles to various periodicals and prose and verse to school textbooks and wrote at least ten books for children which Franciszka illustrated. Pan Tom Buduje Dom is still in print in Poland. Stefan also experimented with photograms and the two of them made five short experimental films Apteka Pharmacy (1930), Europa (1931–1932), Drobiazg Melodyjny (1933), Zwarcie (1935) and Przygoda Czlowieka Poczciwego (1937). These were shown with other experimental films of the time. All except Przygoda Czlowieka Poczciwego, which remained in Warsaw, were lost in Paris in thw Second World War, but the script for Europa, based on a poem by Anatol Stern was later published by the Themersons' Gaberbocchus Press, illustrated by surviving stills from the film and Apteka was remade from descriptions of it when it first appeared, stills and storyboards. In 1935, with other young film-makers, they founded a cooperative, S.A.F (Spoldzielnia Autorow Filmowych].

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