Cameraman's Revenge & Other Fantastic Tales
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Actor: Ladislaw StarewiczBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Cameraman's Revenge & Other Fantastic Tales
Movie Review: Great ideas come from the past!
Summary: 4 Stars
Cold wars apart, "The Cameraman's Revenge & Other Fantastic Tales" gives us a great complement for the already aesthetically enjoyable collection (visually, narratively and musically), "Masters of Russian Animation" vols. 1-4 (available through Amazon.com).
Even if I may not agree with the "beautiful tinted" status given by Film Preservation Associates and Image Entertainment to some shorts originally in black and white, it is good to acknowledge the DVD editors efforts to get together some of Starewicz's outstanding operas.
"Fetiche Mascotte" (1933) deserves a special mention. Maybe just a simple coincidence, but its narrative feels like a great source of inspiration to modern animation plots like Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993), -which, by the way, has a devil character quite similar to one appeared in this Starewicz's short- and John Lasseter's "Toy Story" (1995). However, this is only a personal point of view.
Good sound clarity during the whole DVD, makes me wonder how great it would be to have equal image quality clear of dust spots, and missing or blurry frames (maybe in future editions or new collections).
I hope Film Preservation Associates and Image Entertainment keep their interest in a second volume of Starewicz's shorts including "Lucanus Cervus" (1910), "Prekrasnaya Lyukanida" (1910), "Strekoza i muravey" (1913), "Devi gory" (1919) and the great "Le Roman de Renard" (1930).
Summary of Cameraman's Revenge & Other Fantastic Tales
The legendary Ladislaw Starewicz created some of the most imaginative and loveliest works of puppet animation ever filmed. While working in Russia, he directed his first classic "The Cameraman's Revenge" (1912), a story of love and infidelity among the insects, and the recently rediscovered "The Insects' Christmas" (1913), a dazzlingly beautiful film of the yuletide celebrations of a Christmas-tree ornament and his tiny friends. After relocating to Paris, Starewicz made the political allegory "Frogland" (1922), the gorgeous hand-colored fable "Voice of the Nightingale" (1923), the irresistible "The Mascot" (1933) and the snowland fantasy "Winter Carousel" (1958). Starewicz's grasshoppers, dogs, frogs, dolls and other creatures portray heroics and follies with an exuberance of humor and invention. A delight for viewers both young and old!Animation DVD Video
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