Chapi Chapo is a French short stop-motion series. Created by Italo Bettiol and Stephano Lonati, with music by François de Roubaix, it premiered in 1974 on RF Television and ran for 60 5-minute ...

Italo Bettiol, the creator of "Chapi Chapo", a stop-motion animated series popular in the 1970s, died Wednesday at the age of 96 at his home in southern France, a family friend said. The Barron's news ...