Ladislav Starevich

Ladislav Starevich (1882-1965) was a stop-motion, puppet animator, who even though he was born in Russia, he was raised in Lithuania, Kaunas city. In Lithuania he is proudly considered to be a Lithuanian animator, although there is only a hand full of work he did when he lived in Kaunas. He was offered to work at Disney but refused it because he did not want to be consumed by a company and wanted to shine as an individual.  His animation featured insects and animals, actually he made his famous short film called the Cameraman's Revenge by replacing insects legs with wire and attaching it to their thorax with wax. he came up with this idea while working as a director in the Museum of Natural History in Kaunas. At the time everyone was amazed by his animated insects and called Starevich "The Beetle Tamer". Starevich's animation is considered to be on of the catalysts for Soviet Russian animation.