The Cameraman's Revenge

Mr Beetle keeps a dragonfly dancer, Mrs Beetle keeps a painter, and a grasshopper with a camera films the husband's hotel visit and screens it at the local cinema. The beetles are dead ones, wired at the joints and moved a frame at a time; Władysław Starewicz had tried to film live stag beetles and found they would not perform under lights, so he built his own. The joints are wire and the jealousy is not, and the fight is the proof. Khanzhonkov, Moscow, 1912, thirteen minutes.