Cartoon story "My First Brigade" by W. Kowanieko from the 1920s.

[LEGIONS, pictorial history]."Cartoon film" by Vladimir Kovanko entitled. "My Pierwsza Brygada. The history of the glory of the sons of the Fatherland written with bloody notes on the pages of Polish history" made by hand on a paper ribbon long. 18.5 m and 4.7 cm wide
The whole - drawings and text - made in ink. The first frames include the title of the "film", information: "Conceived and made by W. Kowańko" and presentation of the main characters: Józef Piłsudski, Malewski ("supporter of Austria") and his daughter Danuta, student Jerzy Koterski, member of the staff of the Austrian army Edward fon (!) Fersdort. The plot of the story begins at a time when "blood was pouring on Polish soil, towns and villages turned into cemeteries covered with rubble." Against the backdrop of the events of the First War there is a romance plot: fon Fersdort falls in love, asks his father for the hand of Danusia Malewska and is accepted by him. However, the heart of the young girl leans more towards Koterski, who courageously saved her, assaulted by a thug, from serious oppression. A great story stood in the way of the happiness of the young: the student joined the Legions and on August 6, 1914 set off with his unit towards the border of the Kingdom. Alone, Danusia firmly rejects her father's fervently supported (mainly for material reasons) candidacy for Fersdort. She leaves the family home and joins the Red Cross as a sister. Soon she goes to the front... The author leads his characters, not sparing them from dramatic experiences, through the battlefields of the Polish Legions, a hospital in the Carpathian Mountains, Szeszory in Ukraine. The story ends after the end of the First War, after the entry into Warsaw of "the Legions covered with glory, with the song 'We First Brigade'." At the end, the announcement of the next "program" titled. "With a bloody trail" by the fictitious "Brestfilm" production company. The last frame contains the address of the author of the film in the Officers' Settlement in Brest-on-the-Bug (the same address is placed on the reverse side of the ribbon, at its beginning). "The film" consists of 197 drawing frames and a slightly smaller number of frames with text. The paper ribbon was tightly rolled and placed in a cardboard box with a sticker with the title "We First Brigade." Box heavily rubbed, two ribbon tears glued, small paper folds in places.
W. Kowańko (1907-1968) - a native of Brest-on-the-Bug animation filmmaker known as "Polish Disney," cartoonist, caricaturist. "As a junior high school student [...] he constructed a camera on which he projected films made with his own hands on paper tape. He spent the interwar years traveling between Silesia, Krakow and Warsaw in search of a producer who would finance his ideas for cartoon films and a place where Poland's first cartoon film factory could be built" (sfp.org.pl). He made several cartoon films, known only by their titles and single frames. During the Second World War, arrested by the NKVD, he was a prisoner of the Arkhangelsk Gulag and worked on railroad construction. He left the territory of the USSR with the Andres army. Assigned to the Culture and Press Branch of the II Corps, he edited a soldier's newspaper, designed scenery for theater productions, and made short animated propaganda films. After the war ended, he stayed in exile in Argentina.