Seitarou Kitayama

Seitarou Kitayama was a first generation animator who made animations on his own not hired by larger corporations. He even founded his own animation studio which was closed due to lack of commercial success. He utilized the chalkboard technique and later paper animation with and without preprinted backgrounds. Yasuji Muratahttps://anilist.co/staff/127676/MurataYasuji Hakuzan Kimurahttps://anilist.co/staff/129464 Sanae Yamamotohttps://anilist.co/staff/125833 and Noburou Oofujihttps://anilist.co/staff/127519 were students of his and worked at his film studio. In 1923 the Great Kanto earthquake destroyed most of the Kitayama studio and the residing animators spread out and founded studios of their own knowing that one could make money with the production of animations. Source: AniDB