Wladyslaw starewicz biography of albert einstein
The Cameraman's Revenge, a tale of infidelity and its consequences told entirely with dead bugs for actors....
In his spare time, he experimented with stop-action films using beetles, which he articulated by wiring the legs to the thorax with sealing wax! This, of course, led to his big breakthrough, released by the Van Kanjonkov Studio of Moscow: "The Battle of the Stag Beetles", the first puppet-animated film.
[Note: Emile Cohl previously used stop-motion animation to make a public service announcement film, "The Animated Matches," in 1908...
Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
Starewicz was the first to do anything more advanced (i.e., using puppets, telling a story) with the technique.]
Starewicz' popularity grew quickly...
his third film, "The Ant & The Grasshopper", earned him an honor from the Tsar himself. At that time Starewi