''Sin dejar rastros'' (Spanish: "Without a Trace") is a 1918

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Argentine animated feature film. It was written and directed by

Quirino Cristiani Quirino Cristiani (July 2, 1896 – August 2, 1984) was an Italian-born Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound, even though th ...

. The film used cutout animation.

Plot

The plot revolved around the recent incident involving the German commander Baron von Luxburg who sank an Argentine ship intending to frame the

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for the act. Reports from survivors helped everyone to realize what had truly happened.

Reception

The film was not as successful as Cristiani's previous film ''

El Apóstol ''El Apóstol'' (English: ''The Apostle'') is a 1917 lost Argentine animated film using cutout animation. Italian-Argentine immigrants Quirino Cristiani and Federico Valle directed and produced, respectively. Historians consider it the world's fi ...

'' from 1917, since ''Sin dejar rastros'' was confiscated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by order of President

Hipólito Yrigoyen Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen (; 12 July 1852 – 3 July 1933) was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union and two-time President of Argentina, who served his first term from 1916 to 1922 and his second ...

. It is unknown if any copies of the film exist, and is considered a

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