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- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Although his name nowadays means very little except to animation buffs (and even they have to be pretty well informed), Wladyslaw Starewicz ranks alongside Walt Disney, as one of the great animation pioneers, and his career started nearly a decade before Disney's. He became an animator by accident - fascinated by insects, he bought a camera and attempted to film them, but they kept dying under the hot lights. Stop-motion animation provided an instant (if slow) solution, and Starewicz discovered that he had a natural talent for it. He subsequently made dozens of short films, mostly featuring his trademark stop-motion puppets, but also live action films (some blending live action and animation), moving to France after the Russian Revolution to continue his career. His longest and most ambitious film was the feature-length 'Tale of the Fox', which took ten years to plan and eighteen months to shoot. Starewicz' films were virtually one-man shows (writer/director/cameraman/designer/animator), though other important contributions (in front of and behind the camera) were made by his daughters.- Tuur Bouchez was born on 15 November 1898 in Grimbergen, Belgium. He was an actor, known for A Nice Case (1941), Prelude tot de dageraad (1959) and Schipper naast Mathilde (1955). He died on 28 February 1965 in Brussels, Belgium.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Writer
Rudolph Berliner was born on 8 May 1878. He was a composer and writer, known for The Great Shadow (1920) and The Road to Yesterday (1925). He died on 28 February 1965 in San Diego, California, USA.- Adolf Schärf was born on 20 April 1890 in Nikolsburg, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Mikulov, Czech Republic]. He died on 28 February 1965 in Vienna, Austria.