''The Cameraman's Revenge'' (russian: Месть кинематографического оператора, Mest' kinematograficheskogo operatora) is a 1912 Russian

short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

written and directed by

Ladislas Starevich Ladislas Starevich (russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Старе́вич, pl, Władysław Starewicz; August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965) was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first pup ...

. 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.

Plot

The film is based on the love collision of the Zhukov family (deer beetles), the artist Usachini (beetle-beetle), the grasshopper cameraman and the dancing dragonfly.

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* 1912 films 1910s animated short films 1910s stop-motion animated films Stop-motion animated short films 1910s Russian-language films Films directed by Ladislas Starevich Russian silent short films Russian black-and-white films Films of the Russian Empire 1912 short films 1912 animated films {{1910s-Russia-film-stub