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2017年3月5日—Thefirststop-motionanimationmoviewascreatedinKaunasin1910....Itwascalled'TheBattleoftheStagBeetles'or'LucanusCervus'and ...

The first stop-motion animation movie was created in Kaunas in 1910.

Stop motion animation has been a part of film history for a long time. Interestingly enough, Kaunas plays quite an important role here. The pioneer of the field, Vladislav Starevich, then director of the Museum of Natural History of Kaunas, created his first stop-motion movie in 1910. It was called The Battle of the Stag Beetles’ or ‘Lucanus Cervus’ and is unfortunately unavailable online. Heres the next one, released in 1912 - with English subtitles!

It’s quite impossible to state whether Starevich was - or considered himself - Lithuanian, Polish, Russian or French - as all of the countries were quite important in his life (this is also why his name is variously transliterated into English as Starewicz, Starevitch, Starewich and Starewitch, among other versions).

Born in Moscow into the family of Lithuanian Poles in 1882, Vladislav Starev...