Filmography
Note: You may see slight variations on these film names in different sources. Keep in mind that these are translations from Russian, French, etc... I may have duplicates listed here because of that.
I also found numerous discrepancies with the years of release for a lot of these, so give a few years leeway either way.
The Battle of the Stag Beetles (1910)
Videography
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The LaserDisc of "The Cameraman's Revenge..." was recently released by Image Entertainment. This is the best presentation we'll probably ever see of these films. All are remastered to the nth degree, looking at least as good as they did upon release (I assume). This includes the longest version of "The Mascot" I've ever seen (longer than that on "Three Shorts" and "Weird Cartoons"), and many of the films are windowboxed to avoid cropping off peripheral information. "Frogland," "The Cameraman's Revenge," and "The Insect's Christmas" are tinted, a common practice with older black and white films to denote different moods, etc. "The Mascot" is presented in pristine black and white. "Voice of the Nightingale" is beautifully rendered from a HAND-COLORED print which Starewicz made. Unfortunately, the hand-coloring process seems to have damaged the film element a bit, because the image isn't as crisp as on the other films --- but the beautiful color pallete more than makes up for that. "Winter Carousel" is as candy-colored as ever, but with a sharp image which is a vast improvement upon the "Three Shorts" tape.
The VHS version was made from the same film elements, but of course isn't as sharp, since it's VHS. If you don't have a laserdisc player, it'll do you just fine.
Note that with the release of this disc, I've redone all sections of this site which deal with the films it includes.
(October 1999: The LaserDisc is out of print... VHS is the only way to get this now!)
Festival Films: 2841 Irving Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55408.
Image Entertainment #ID7394DS.
Bibliography
Masters
of Animation, John Halas: 1987, Salem House Publishers.
Cartoons:
One Hundred Years of Animation Cinema,
Video
Watchdog #8 (thanks, Alan Upchurch), 9 & 17.
Puppetography
The Museum of the Moving Image in London: I was there in 1989. Go there if you have any interest in stop-motion animation or cinema in general. Although the whole place was fascinating, the highlights for me were: assorted Starewicz puppets, Willis O'Brien's Mighty Joe Young puppet (the fur was rotting a bit), Ray Harryhausen's Kali from The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlett. Apparently, they now also have pieces by Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay.
The rest of the Ladislas Starevich site:
A Short Biography The Other "-Ographies" : Filmography, Videography, Bibliography and Puppetography (Revised 10/2/99) Frogland (Revised 10/2/99) The Mascot, a/k/a Puppet Love, a/k/a The Devil's Ball (Revised 10/2/99) Nose to the Wind Winter Carousel (Revised 10/2/99) The Cameraman's Revenge (Revised 10/2/99) The Insect's Christmas (Revised 10/2/99) Voice of the Nightingale (Revised 10/2/99) Tale of the Fox (Revised 10/2/99) Short Takes: "The Scarecrow", "Town Rat, Country Rat" Back to Animation of Heaven & Hell! Home Page E-mail me! timfitz99@hotmail.com
This page was created in October 1995.
Last updated November 29, 2001.
