Yes, probably. Amusingly, I have "Tale of the Fox" listed in my Funny Animals and More weekly animation column as the earliest French, not German, anthropomorphic feature with no humans. The Starewiczs did the animation production in Paris during 1929 & '30, then moved to Germany to produce the sound tracks for a multilingual release. The German release in 1937 (with Nazi funding) was the first, although the 1941 French release seems to be the only one available today; and it was still the earliest French anthro feature.
One of the most recent French animated features, "Loulou, l'Incroyable Secret/Wolfy, the Incredible Secret", which has no human characters, got an American release on On Demand TV and DVD just this year.
Yes, probably. Amusingly, I have "Tale of the Fox" listed in my Funny Animals and More weekly animation column as the earliest French, not German, anthropomorphic feature with no humans. The Starewiczs did the animation production in Paris during 1929 & '30, then moved to Germany to produce the sound tracks for a multilingual release. The German release in 1937 (with Nazi funding) was the first, although the 1941 French release seems to be the only one available today; and it was still the earliest French anthro feature.
One of the most recent French animated features, "Loulou, l'Incroyable Secret/Wolfy, the Incredible Secret", which has no human characters, got an American release on On Demand TV and DVD just this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaFjkU306rE
Fred Patten