Ladislas Starevich (Russian: Ð'Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ñ Ð»Ð°Ì Ð²
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ì Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¡Ñ‚Ð°Ñ€ÐµÌ Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡, Polish: WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw
Starewicz; August 8, 1882 â€" February 26, 1965) was a Polish-Russian
stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first
puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida (1912). He also used dead
insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. Following the
Russian Revolution, Starevich settled in France.Władysław Starewicz
was born in Moscow to ethnic Polish parents from present-day
Lithuania. His father, Aleksander Starewicz, was from Surviliškis
near Kėdainiai and his mother, Antonina Legęcka, from Kaunas. Both
belonged to lesser nobility and were in hiding after the failed
January Uprising against the Tsarist Russian domination. The boy was
raised by his grandmother in Kaunas, then the capital of Kaunas
Governorate within the Russian Empire. He attended Gymnasium in Dorpat
(today Tartu, Estonia).Starewicz had interests in a number of
different areas; by 1910 he was named Director of the Museum of
Natural History in Kaunas, Lithuania. There he made four short
live-action documentaries for the museum. For the fifth film,
Starewicz wished to record the battle of two stag beetles, but was
stymied by the fact that the nocturnal creatures inevitably die
whenever the stage lighting was turned on. Inspired by a viewing of
Les allumettes animées [Animated Matches] (1908) by Émile Cohl,
Starewicz decided to re-create the fight through stop-motion
animation: by replacing the beetles' legs with wire, attached with
sealing wax to their thorax, he is able to create articulated insect
puppets. The result was the short film Lucanus Cervus (1910),
apparently the first animated puppet film and the natal hour of
Russian animation.In 1911, Starewicz moved to Moscow and began work
with the film company of Aleksandr Khanzhonkov. There he made two
dozen films, most of them puppet animations using dead animals. Of
these, The Beautiful Leukanida (premiere â€" 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. But the best-known
film of this period, was Mest' kinematograficheskogo operatora
(Revenge of the Kinematograph Cameraman, aka The Cameraman's Revenge)
(1912), a cynical work about infidelity and jealousy among the
insects. Some of the films made for Khanzhonkov feature
live-action/animation interaction. In some cases, the live action
consisted of footage of Starewicz's daughter Irina. Particularly
worthy of note is Starevich's 41-minute 1913 film The Night Before
Christmas, an adaptation of the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name.
The 1913 film Terrible Vengeance won the Gold Medal at an
international festival in Milan in 1914, being just one of five films
which won awards among 1005 contestants.
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ì Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¡Ñ‚Ð°Ñ€ÐµÌ Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡, Polish: WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw
Starewicz; August 8, 1882 â€" February 26, 1965) was a Polish-Russian
stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first
puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida (1912). He also used dead
insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. Following the
Russian Revolution, Starevich settled in France.Władysław Starewicz
was born in Moscow to ethnic Polish parents from present-day
Lithuania. His father, Aleksander Starewicz, was from Surviliškis
near Kėdainiai and his mother, Antonina Legęcka, from Kaunas. Both
belonged to lesser nobility and were in hiding after the failed
January Uprising against the Tsarist Russian domination. The boy was
raised by his grandmother in Kaunas, then the capital of Kaunas
Governorate within the Russian Empire. He attended Gymnasium in Dorpat
(today Tartu, Estonia).Starewicz had interests in a number of
different areas; by 1910 he was named Director of the Museum of
Natural History in Kaunas, Lithuania. There he made four short
live-action documentaries for the museum. For the fifth film,
Starewicz wished to record the battle of two stag beetles, but was
stymied by the fact that the nocturnal creatures inevitably die
whenever the stage lighting was turned on. Inspired by a viewing of
Les allumettes animées [Animated Matches] (1908) by Émile Cohl,
Starewicz decided to re-create the fight through stop-motion
animation: by replacing the beetles' legs with wire, attached with
sealing wax to their thorax, he is able to create articulated insect
puppets. The result was the short film Lucanus Cervus (1910),
apparently the first animated puppet film and the natal hour of
Russian animation.In 1911, Starewicz moved to Moscow and began work
with the film company of Aleksandr Khanzhonkov. There he made two
dozen films, most of them puppet animations using dead animals. Of
these, The Beautiful Leukanida (premiere â€" 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. But the best-known
film of this period, was Mest' kinematograficheskogo operatora
(Revenge of the Kinematograph Cameraman, aka The Cameraman's Revenge)
(1912), a cynical work about infidelity and jealousy among the
insects. Some of the films made for Khanzhonkov feature
live-action/animation interaction. In some cases, the live action
consisted of footage of Starewicz's daughter Irina. Particularly
worthy of note is Starevich's 41-minute 1913 film The Night Before
Christmas, an adaptation of the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name.
The 1913 film Terrible Vengeance won the Gold Medal at an
international festival in Milan in 1914, being just one of five films
which won awards among 1005 contestants.
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