The first-ever Brazilian animated film, O Kaiser, was exhibited in a Rio de Janeiro theater on this day, January 22, in 1917.

O Kaiser was made by Brazilian cartoonist Álvaro Marins, who used the pen name Seth. His film, a political satire, highlighted the empire building-ambitions of Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II. The film is lost today; just one image from the film, printed in a newspaper, exists:

A couple years ago, a group of contemporary Brazilian animators made a film in tribute to Marin’s accomplishment: