Folk Tales (1940-es évek)

Jaschik regularly participated in exhibitions at the Kunsthalle and the Céhbeliek with illustrations from Hungarian folk tales. He illustrated both Elek Benedek's volumes of Hungarian and Székely folk tales.

Around 1940, Jaschik set his mind on making the first Hungarian cartoon, based on the American example, to promote Hungarian folk tales. "Unfortunately, the illustration of a folk tale on the basis of fine art has little success. Nor can we even think of propagating Hungarian folktales in illustrated editions, partly because there is a lack of the right publishing entrepreneurial spirit, and partly because adults are reluctant to read others. The film, on the other hand, is watched by many people, and relatively willingly. I would like to bring Hungarian folk tales to the status they deserve, just as Bartók and Kodály brought Hungarian folk music to triumph," he said in an interview in 1940. Finally, in early 1942, Jaschik began work on the film of the fairy tale "The Diamond Crane", the first frames of which were soon completed and moved around the canvas of the Jaschik studio. By the desolate spring of 1944, the complete film was finished.