![]() Of these, The Beautiful Leukanida (premiere – 1912), first puppet film with a plot inspired in the story of Agamenon and Menelas, earned international acclaim (one British reviewer was tricked into thinking the stars were live trained insects), while The Grasshopper and the Ant (1911) got Starewicz decorated by the czar. There he made two dozen films, most of them puppet animations using dead animals. In 1911, Starewicz moved to Moscow and began work with the film company of Aleksandr Khanzhonkov. ![]() He also used insects and other animals as protagonists of his films.(…) “ Władysław Starewicz (1882 – 1965) was a Russian, Polish and French stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film (i.e. D: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Olga Obolenskaya, Lidiya Tridenskaya. B: Wladyslaw Starewicz, based on Nikolai Gogol’s story. ![]() Noch pered Rozhdestvom (The Night Before Christmas) ![]()
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