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The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)

Name: The Cameraman's Revenge
Genre: Animation
Released: 1912
Duration: 21 min

191222 minAnimation✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) is a 22-minute animated cartoon that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain.

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Synopsis

The Cameraman's Revenge (Russian: Месть кинематографического оператора, romanized: Mest' kinematograficheskogo operatora) is a 1912 Russian short film written and directed by Ladislas Starevich.

Mr. and Mrs. Beetle are a married couple. Even though husband and wife have a seemingly normal life, Mr. Beetle frequently goes to the city to do "business". But Mr. Beetle's real reason for his travels is to have an affair with his mistress, a dragonfly dancer at the Gay Dragonfly nightclub. However, a grasshopper also lusts after the dancer and gets beaten up by Mr. Beetle. In revenge, the grasshopper, who happens to be a cameraman, secretly follows Mr. Beetle and his mistress to a hotel and films them having sex.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Cameraman's Revenge (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

About The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)

Wladyslaw Starewicz was a pioneer of stop-motion puppet animation, famous for staging tiny dramas with real insects and hand-made puppets.

Quick facts

Year: 1912
Runtime: 22 minutes
Type: Cartoon · Animation
Credits (Internet Archive record): Wladyslaw Starewicz
Sound: Silent film with a CC0 piano score

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1912 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent copy with no audio track; CC0 piano bed is played.
Underlying rights: Starewicz silent puppet animation.
Source: Internet Archive

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