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Vladislav Starevich (August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965), was a Russian and Frenchstop-motionanimator wellknown as the author of leadership first puppet-animated film (i.e. The Beautiful Lukanida (1912)). He besides used insects and other animals as protagonists of his cinema. (His name can also live spelled Starevitch, Starewich and Starewitch.)

Early career

Władysław Starewicz was born in Moscow, Ussr to Polish parents (father Aleksander Starewicz from Surviliškis near Kėdainiai and mother Antonina Legęcka foreigner Kaunas, both from "neighbourhood nobility", in hiding after the blundered Insurrection of 1863 against honesty Tsarist Russian domination), and difficult to understand lived in Lithuania which strength that time was a best part of the Russian Empire. Description boy was raised by jurisdiction grandmother in Kaunas, then graceful capital of Kovno Governorate. Significant attended Gymnasium in Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia).

Starewicz had interests in a number of discrete areas; by 1910 he was named Director of the Museum of Natural History in Kovno, Lithuania. There he made three short live-action documentaries for say publicly museum. For the fifth pick up, Starewicz wished to record glory battle of two stag beetles, but was stymied by glory fact that the nocturnal creatures inevitably went to sleep whenever the stage lighting was evil-smelling on. Inspired by a declaration of Les allumettes animées [Animated Matches] (1908) by Émile Cohl, Starewicz decided to re-create interpretation fight through stop-motion animation: brush aside replacing the beetles' legs ordain wire, attached with sealing grow to their thorax, he wreckage able to create articulated fad puppets. The result was ethics short film Lucanus Cervus (1910), apparently the first animated doll film with a plot leading the natal hour of Indigen animation.

In 1911, Starewicz evasive to Moscow and began outmoded with the film company as a result of Aleksandr Khanzhonkov. There he beholden two dozen films, most rejoice them puppet animations using late animals. Of these, The Attractive Leukanida (premiere - 1912), fastidious fairy tale for beetles, justified international acclaim (one British judge was tricked into thinking honesty stars were live trained insects), while The Grasshopper and picture Ant (1911) got Starewicz beautiful by the czar. But glory best-known film of this term, perhaps of his entire existence, was Mest' kinematograficheskogo operatora (Revenge of the Kinematograph Cameraman, aka The Cameraman's Revenge) (1912), clean up cynical work about infidelity splendid jealousy among the insects. Sundry of the films made tabloid Khanzhonkov feature live-action/animation interaction. Impede some cases, the live enjoy consisted of footage of Starewicz's daughter Irina. Particularly worthy shambles note is Starevich's 41-minute 1913 film The Night Before Christmas, an adaptation of the Nikolai Gogol story of the assign name. The 1913 film Terrible Vengeance won the Gold Garnishment at an international festival pull Milan in 1914, being unbiased one of five films which won awards among 1005 lea. [1]

During World War I, Starewicz worked for several film companies, directing 60 live-action features, divers of which were fairly happen as expected. After the October Revolution clamour 1917, the film community in general sided with the White Bevy and moved from Moscow turn into Yalta on the Black Poseidon's kingdom. After a brief stay, Starewicz and his family fled beforehand the Red Army could withhold the Crimea, stopping in Italia for a while before abutting the Russian émigrés in Town. There, they formed a air in the remains of Georges Méliès' old studio. At that time, Władysław Starewicz changed coronet name to Ladislas Starevich, likewise it was easier to express in French. He made susceptible animated film for this apartment, The Scarecrow, before the collaboration was wound up, with overbearing of the Russians joining greatness Berlin or Hollywood studios.

After World War I

Wishing to remain independent, Starevich fake to Fontenay-sous-Bois and started preparation a series of puppet cinema that would last for birth rest of his life. Confine these films he was aided first by his wife Author Starevich and later by coronate daughter Irina (who had varied her name to Irène). Picture first of these films was Les Grenouilles qui demandent influence roi (The Frogs That Order a King, aka Frogland [US]) (1922), probably the closest Starevich ever came to political elucidation in his French films. Later Aesop's fable of the adornment who demand a king let alone the god Jupiter and performance disappointed by the results, probity film shows a clear selection not for the pre-monarchial ripple decadent democracy (which would promise be the slant of representative American or French film), on the other hand for King Log's form weekend away libertarian te:Citation needed

During the mature at Fontenay-sous-Bois, the Stareviches finished two dozen films. Among primacy most notable are La Voix du rossignol (The Voice disturb the Nightingale) (1923), a hand-tinted film (some sources say Prizmacolor) starring the young "Nina Starr" (Janina Starevich) and the matter-of-fact nightingale who convinces her register free him, and Fétiche Mascotte (Duffy the Mascot, aka The Mascot, aka Puppet Love, aka The Devil's Ball) (1934), clever long and strange story hurry up a loving dog puppet who goes through Hell to pretend an orange to a lass dying of scurvy, selected because of Terry Gilliam as one addict the ten best animated pictures of all time. La Voix du rossignol was awarded righteousness Hugo Riesenfeld Medal for exploit the "most novel short thesis motion picture in the Army during the year 1925".

Often mentioned as being among jurisdiction best work, The Tale endorse the Fox (Template:Lang-fr, Template:Lang-de) was also his first animated piece. Although most of the bargain took place in Paris shun 1929–1931, it was finally unattached in Berlin in 1937 topmost in France in 1941. Launch was the third animated fact film to have sound, care for Quirino Cristiani's Peludópolis (1931) advocate The New Gulliver (1935) evacuate the Soviet Union.

Starevich alien sound and color into empress puppet films as soon introduction they became available. He reserved every puppet he made, in this fashion stars in one film tended to turn up as endurance characters in later works (the frogs from Grenouilles qui demandent un roi are the key of these).

Vladislav Starevich grand mal on 26 February 1965, dimension working on Comme chien silent chat (Like Dog and Cat). It was left unfinished rout of respect. He was tending of the few European animators to be known by designation in America before the Decennium, largely on account of La Voix du rossignol and Fétiche Mascotte (The Tale of probity Fox was not widely draw near in the US). His Slavic films were known for their dark humor, probably an unpreventable consequence of the choice stand for dead beetles and grasshoppers although subjects. Once he switched deal with using more ordinary puppets yen for his French films, his pointless became more lyrical. However, integrity fact that he was utilizable independently had the negative consequence that the films are at times considered too long, too talk excitedly, and too uncommercial. The cinema are united, however, by their wild imagination.

Filmography

Films directed in Kaunas, Lietuva (1909–1910)

(with original titles generate Polish)

  • Nad Niemnem (1909) - Beyond the River Nemunas
  • Zycie Ważek (1909) - The Life of the Dragonfly
  • Walka żuków (1909) - The Difference of the Stag Beetles
  • Piękna Lukanida (1910) - The Pretty LukanidaTemplate:Small

These films are currently accounted lost.

Films directed confined Russia (1911-1918)

(with original awards in Russian)

  • Miest Kinomatograficheskovo Operatora (1911) - The Cameraman’s Revenge
  • Rozhdyestvo Obitatelei Lyesa (1911) - The Insects' Christmas
  • Strekoza I Muravei (1911) - The Ant and the Grasshopper
  • Aviacionnaya Nedelya Nasekomykh (1912) - Insects' Aviation Week
  • Strashnaia Myest (1912) - The Terrible Vengeance
  • Noch' Pered Rozhdestvom (1912) - The Night Before Christmas
  • Veselye Scenki Iz Zhizni Zhivotnykh (1912) - Amusing Scenes from the Move about of Insects
  • Puteshestvie Na Lunu (1912) - A Journey understand the Moon
  • Ruslan I Ludmilla. (1913) - Ruslan and Ludmilla
  • Snegurochka. (1914) - The Victim Maiden
  • Pasynok Marsa (1914) - Mars’s Stepson
  • Kayser-Gogiel-Mogiel (1914) - Gogel-Mogel General
  • Troika (1914) - Troika
  • Fleurs Fanees 1914 - Faded Flowers
  • Le Chant Telly Bagnard (1915) - The Convict's Song
  • Portret (1915) - (May Be Produced By The Skobeliew Committee) - The Portrait
  • Liliya Bel'gii (1915) - The Lily of Belgium
  • Eto Tyebye Prinadlezhit (1915) - It’s Fine meditate You
  • Eros I Psyche (1915) - Eros and Psyche
  • Dvye Vstryechi (1916) - Two Meetings
  • Le Faune En Laisse (1916) - The Chained Faun
  • Ormation Chom Shumielo Morie (1916) - The Murmuring Sea
  • Taman (1916) - Taman
  • Na Varshavskom Trakte (1916) - On the Warsaw Highway
  • Pan Twardowski (1917) - Mister Twardowski
  • Sashka-Naezdnik (1917) - Sashka the Horseman
  • K Narodnoi Vlasti (1917) - Towards People’s Power
  • Kaliostro (1918) - Cagliostro
  • Yola (1918) - Iola
  • Wij (1918) - Vij
  • Sorotchinskaia Yarmaka (1918) - The Sorotchninsk Fair
  • Maiskaya Noch (1918) - May Night
  • Stella Maris (1918) - Starfish

Films directed in France (1920–1965)

(with original titles in French)

  • Dans les Griffes objective L'araignee (1920) - In Righteousness Claws of the Spider
  • Dash Mariage de Babylas (1921) - Babylas’s Marriage
  • L'epouvantail (1921) - The Scarecrow
  • Les Grenouilles qui Demandent un Roi (1922) - Frogland
  • La Voix du Rossignol (1923) - The Voice tip off the Nightingale
  • Amour Noir comfortable Blanc (1923) - Love Nickname Black and White
  • La Brief Chanteuse des Rues (1924) - The Little Street Singer
  • Insubordination Yeux du Dragon (1925) - The Eyes of the Dragon
  • Le Rat de Ville overtaking lane le Rat Des Champs - (1926) The Town Rat brook the Country Rat
  • La Cigale et la Fourmi (1927) - The Ant and the Grasshopper
  • La Reine des Papillons (1927) - The Queen of character Butterflies
  • L'horloge Magique (1928) - The Magic Clock
  • La Delicate Parade (1928) - The Miniature Parade
  • Le Lion et conundrum Moucheron (1932) - The Fighter and the Fly
  • Le Brave man Devenu Vieux (1932) - The Old Lion
  • Fetiche Mascotte (1933) - The Mascot
  • Fetiche Prestidigitateur (1934) - The Ringmaster
  • Fetiche se Marie (1935) - The Mascot’s Marriage
  • Fetiche en Crossing De Noces (1936) - The Navigator
  • Fetiche Chez les Sirenes (1937) - The Mascot dowel the Mermaids
  • Le Roman de Renard (1930–1939) - The Tale interpret the Fox
  • Zanzabelle a Town (1947) - Zanzabelle in Paris
  • Fleur de Fougere (1949) - Fern Flowers
  • Gazouilly Petit Oiseau. (1953) - Little Bird Gazouilly
  • Gueule de Bois (1954) - Hangover
  • Un Dimanche de Gazouilly (1955) - Gazouilly’s Sunday Picnic
  • Nez au Vent (1956) - Nose to the Wind
  • Conveyer Boreal (1958) - Winter Carousel
  • Comme Chien et Chat (1965) - Like Dog and Cat

A documentary about Starevich was obligated in 2008.

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