Vladislav starevich biography books
Vladislav starevich biography books
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Starewicz, Wladyslaw
Russian animator Wladislaw Starewicz (1882-1965) was an early pioneer of stop-motion animation, the technique of using hundreds of individual frames or photographs to create the illusion of movement.
His first works used dead insects whose limbs had been reattached with glue so that they could be manipulated into different poses, but by the 1920s and 1930s Starewicz was creating elaborate animal puppets for his fairy-tale-based fables.
“Though often bizarre and not infrequently unsettling, Starewicz's work is exhilarating in its energy, inventiveness, and sardonic humor,” noted an International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers essay.
Starewicz was born in Moscow on August 8, 1882, to Polish-Lithuanian parents whose ancestry included Russian and French relatives.
Both parents, Aleksander and Antonina Legiecka Starewicz, were from landowning families in what later became Lithuania; at the time, the area was part of imperial Russia. He was raised by his gr