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The Tale of the Fox: Watch Ladislas Starevich’s Animation of Goethe’s Great German Folktale (1937)

Johann Wolf­gang von Goethe — the very name bespeaks lit­er­ary mas­tery of the widest range. Not only did this best-known of all eigh­teenth- and — nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry Ger­man writ­ers reach into poet­ry, the nov­el, the mem­oir, auto­bi­og­ra­phy, crit­i­cism, sci­ence, phi­los­o­phy, and even pol­i­tics, but he did a bit of inter­pre­ta­tion of clas­sic folk­tales as well. The Faust and Sor­rows of Young Werther author wrote a par­tic­u­lar­ly last­ing ren­di­tion of the adven­tures of Rey­nard the Fox, a trick­ster from medieval Euro­pean myth. Had Goethe him­self lived into the 20th cen­tu­ry to expe­ri­ence the gold­en age of pup­pet ani­ma­tion, I feel cer­tain his artis­tic man­date would have com­pelled him to film a ver­sion of The Tale of the Fox. Alas, the lit­er­ary leg­end passed away in 1832, leav­ing the job, near­ly a cen­tu­ry lat­er, to Russ­ian ani­ma­tor Ladis­las Stare­vich (also spelled Wla­dys­law Starewicz).

Hav­ing pio­neered the form of pup­pet ani­ma­tion with his 1912 film The Beau­ti­ful Lukani­da, Stare­vich remains well-known among ani­ma­tion enthu­si­asts for shoot­ing his pic­tures with ani­mals play­ing the pro­tag­o­nist

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Have you already watched all the classic Christmas films? In search of something new (or rather, very old)? Look no further than The Insects’ Christmas, a six-and-a-half-minute stop-motion animated silent film from 1913.

The creator, Władysław Starewicz was born in 1882 to ethnic Polish parents in Moscow. Considered a pioneer in the early field of puppet animation, Starevich made his early films with Polish and Russian-language titles but then fled to France to avoid the Bolshevik Revolution. There he changed his name to Ladislas Starewicz and continued making films until shortly before his death in 1965.

One of his earliest films, The Insects’ Christmas showcases Starewicz’s eccentric style of using dead bugs and animals for stop-motion animation. If you aren’t squeamish about that, it’s actually quite a whimsical and lighthearted piece in which insects (and a frog) gather at the invitation of Father Christmas to celebrate the holidays in the forest.