All the animation historians agree that Bill Tytla's trip to Europe was a determining step for his career but few people seem to really know what he did there.

I read on many websites that he had visited several European countries where he had studied art in France but this information was very vague and I was really dissatisfied with the lack of details.

Fortunately, thanks to John Canemaker I learned that during a stay in Paris, Bill Tytla studied sculpture briefly in a studio taught by Charles Despiau (1874-1946) however John does not indicate precisely when he entered and when he left.

Still, my contacts with Serge Bromberg allowed me to learn that the French animator Antoine Payen sought to hire Bill Tytla in the new studio he had just founded in Paris and John also indicated that the Russian embassy had contacted Tytla when he was in London to run an animation studio in Moscow.

But all this information remains extremely difficult to prove and I need concrete sources that can help me trace in detail Tytla's journey in the different European countries, that's why I come to contact American specialists because I think you have access to much more information than us on this subject.