Wladyslaw Starewicz

Birthday: August 8th, 1882 Date of Death: February 26th, 1965 Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian Empire

Wladyslaw Starewicz (Russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Старе́вич; August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965) was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida (1912). He also used dead insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. Following the Russian Revolution, Starevich settled in France.

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