The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)

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The Cameraman's Revenge (Russian: Месть кинематографического оператора, romanized: Mest' kinematograficheskogo operatora) is a 1912 Russian short film written and directed by Ladislas Starevich. It, along with other works by Starevich, stands out in the history of stop-motion animation for its use of actual dried insect specimens (beetles, grasshoppers, dragonflies, etc.) as articulated stop-motion puppets portraying all of the characters.

Synopsis adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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The Cameraman's Revenge dates from 1912.

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