A country fly abandons her husband a baby to become a dancer in Paris. She turns down offers of a poor beetle only to fall into the clutches of an evil spider.
I had the pleasure of looking at a color print of this Starewicz animation; it was likely originally a stencil-color effect. It differs from the usual Starewicz movie in that the insects have more human-looking masks than usual, and the story is melodramatic, its humor in the insectile details that the animator -- who began his movie career as an entomologist trying to film insects' movements. Its humor arises from the fact these are insects acting out the hackneyed drama, with Starewicz' impeccable stop-motion effects.
I had the pleasure of looking at a color print of this Starewicz animation; it was likely originally a stencil-color effect. It differs from the usual Starewicz movie in that the insects have more human-looking masks than usual, and the story is melodramatic, its humor in the insectile details that the animator -- who began his movie career as an entomologist trying to film insects' movements. Its humor arises from the fact these are insects acting out the hackneyed drama, with Starewicz' impeccable stop-motion effects.