History of Russian animation
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For a film, Ladislas Starevich wished to record the battle of two stag beetles, but was stymied by the fact that the nocturnal creatures inevitably went to sleep whenever the stage lighting was turned on.
Inspired by a viewing of Les allumettes animées [Animated Matches] (1908) by Emile Cohl, Ladislas Starevich decided to re-create the fight through stop-motion animation: he removed the legs and mandibles from two beetle carcasses, then re-attached them with wax, creating articulated puppets. The result was the short film Lucanus Cervus (1910), apparently the first animated puppet film with a plot and the natal hour of Russian animation.
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