4/15/2023 0 Comments Bioskop semi 68John Francis Lane, Sight & Sound Autumn 1978 3. Perhaps the most delightful invention, however, is the use of the cinema, the camera, as deus ex machina.” “The characters are all brilliantly conceived and animated beetles. Beetle are last seen in jail together, resigned and reconciled. The wife swipes the husband, the husband swipes the cameraman and the cinema catches fire. Beetle’s amorous adventure (and he is of course the projectionist). “Husband and wife make up and he takes her to the movies, where the film they see is none other than the one which our cameraman had been filming of Mr. Beetle’s wife, equally bored with married life, has meanwhile been receiving her lover, and there is a fight when Mr. A bored husband falls for a music hall singer and takes her to a hotel (‘Hotel de I’Amour‘), where a cameraman who is in love with the singer follows them and films their night of love through the keyhole. “The film employs animated puppets, which I believe were not much in use at that time, and Starewicz uses beetle characters for his story of provincial infidelity. “The greatest curiosity however, was The Cameraman’s Revenge, an animated film made in 1912 by Władysław Starewicz, a Pole whom Khanzhonkov had been enterprising enough to ‘discover’ and bring to Russia.
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