Wladyslaw starewicz biography for kids

Wladyslaw Starewicz' childhood passion for entomology led his career: he began producing short documentaries in Moscow around 1909-1910, beginning with a documentary about insects in Lithuania. 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...

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Starewicz was the first to do anything more advanced (i.e., using puppets, telling a story) with the technique.]

 

 

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Starewicz' popularity grew quickly...

his third film, "The Ant & The Grasshopper", earned him an honor from the Tsar himself. At that time Starewi