Miaou! - Le Roman de Renard - Ladislas Starevitch

[lyonlamb]

I'd love to have this song on mp3 and play it from time to time.

[Lyeserka]

Vladislav Starevich (August 8, 1882 - February 26, 1965), born Władysław Starewicz (Russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Старе́вич), was a Russian and French stop-motion animator who used insects and other animals as his protagonists. (His name can also be spelled Starevitch, Starewich and Starewitch.) .... people READ MORE

[sialababamak537]

Starewicz was Pole not Russian.

[slonique]

@sialababamak537 Fair enough, yes, he was Pole) But he was born in Moscow, he lived and worked in Russia until 1917.

[sialababamak537]

@slonique

He couldn't be born in Poland because Poland was re-established in 1918. But because there was no polish state it doesn't mean there was no Poles.

[slonique]

@sialababamak537 @sialababamak537 Of course he could have been born in Poland) But he was born and raised in Moscow. Frankly, I don't care what nationality he was. After all it was France that became his home. But thank you, I will add to the description a reference to his Polish descent.

[LordHamlet99]

Although the animation was finished in Paris after an 18-month period (1929-1930), there were major problems with adding a soundtrack to the film. Finally, funding was given for a German soundtrack and this version had its premiere in Berlin in April 1937. Released eight months before Disney's Snow White, it is the world's sixth-ever animated feature film (and the second to use puppet animation, following The New Gulliver from the USSR).

[sylus53]

c'est tres romantique , quelle séducteur ce chat !!

[RobearInOjai]

The King decrees that from that day on all the creatures of his kingdom shall live in peace and brotherly love... and become vegetarians! No longer will predators eat their prey, no longer will prey live in fear of being eaten. In the second scene the crafty Fox sings a love song to the Queen, singing "I love only Thee, Meow, Meow!" A truly magical story.

[ohhellolife]

@RobearInOjai Aww, so cute!!

Do you know the French lyrics to the cat song? It sounds so pretty!

[DeGiftDerGoden]

Veerluchten en naar Vjìlheen daart nana, hösgörlhemn! I like this films so much, they give me a feeling of muppety.

[genesisplan]

W O W!... I'm in shock. Incredible.

[cedeniro]

How cool is this? AWESOME!

[chachours]

J'adore !!!! Dommage qu'il ne soit plus diffusé !!

[chachours]

I love it !!!!!

[kailyprower]

Amazing O_o

You even see them breath :o

Now where can you see that today really :3

[Moresch]

C'est magnifique!

[kimonui]

The best film I have seen all hour. and furthermore,

Я потрясена! Просто чудо!!!!

[aaronthebox]

dude this is hella cool

[woodgrainlove]

this stuff looks amazing!

[pinkwerewolf]

very cool

[CultureJudge]

Masterpiece, such a strong, dark, witty fable - puts all of Western cute-animal animation films to shame. Plus, there are some technical aspects of his animation that remain, to me, quite unfathomable - and which one sees in no other stop-motion anywhere. One of which is the amazing blurred-motion effect he achieves at times (like when the cat jumps up here), which looks like real-time movement, but can't be, because of other ongoing stop-motion elements in the shot.

[FilmTraum6]

Fantastic !Love it!

[Milynia]

What year is this from?

[DrunkenDarkSoul]

1937 tale of the fox

[PuzzlingEvidenceTV]

Dead meat is not useful under hot lights for the days at a time this sort of work demands. Models are easy to make, and are more practical. Fur might be real, as well as the insects...

[Vornava]

Я потрясена! Просто чудо!!!!

[chiclemutante]

Tu sais bien que je t'aime, miaou, miaou!!

I've read Ladislas used dead animals for the animations.. I wonder if the singer cat is a real one :(

[slonique]

oh yeah!) dead animals!

3 identical dead animals of different size for each character :)))

[pavlovich74]

LOL! He has however used dead insects.

[pavlovich74]

Such wonderful animation. I wish the artist could have stayed and worked in Russia, Oh well, ce la vie.

[slonique]

I wish he was known and appreciated in Russia at least nowadays (

but he is still not.