Wladyslaw Starewicz Collection (1882 - 1965) - 5-DVD Box Set ( The Scarecrow / Midnight Wedding / The Voice of the Nightingale / The Queen Of The Butterflies / The Mascot / Hangover / In the Spider's Grip / Eyes of the Dragon / Love in Black and White / The Mascot / The Ringsmater / The Mascot's Marriage ) ( The Navigator / The Mascott and the Mermaids / The Lion and the Fly / The Town Rat and the Country Rat / The Frogs who Desired a King (Frogland) / The Ant and the Grasshopper / The Old Lion / How Puppet Cinema is Born and Animated )

Wladyslaw Starewicz Collection (1882 - 1965) - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Scarecrow / Midnight Wedding / The Voice of the Nightingale / The Queen Of The Butterflies / The Mascot / Hangover / In the Spider's Grip / Eyes of the Dragon / Love in Black and White / The Mascot / The Ringsmater / The Mascot's Marriage
Alternate Title: The Navigator / The Mascott and the Mermaids / The Lion and the Fly / The Town Rat and the Country Rat / The Frogs who Desired a King (Frogland) / The Ant and the Grasshopper / The Old Lion / How Puppet Cinema is Born and Animated
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
Silent ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
496 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1920 - 1937 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Irene Starewicz

Written By:
Wladyslaw Starewicz

Actors:
Wladyslaw Starewicz ..... Gardener
Nina Star
Nina Star ..... Girl

Synopsis:

This remarkable box brings together 19 fabulous works of Ladislas Starewitch, conducted between 1920 and 1937 by the master of animation and grouped into 5 programs. These films are accompanied with many bonuses where we discover Starewitch working with Irene, daughter and collaborator, drive-puppets, alternative versions of the films and documents on the genesis of the animation work. L'épouvantail (The Scarecrow) / Le mariage de Babylas (Midnight Wedding) / La voix du rossignol (The Voice of the Nightingale) / La Reine Des Papillons (The Queen Of The Butterflies) / Fétiche Mascotte (The Mascot) / Gueule de Bois (Hangover) / Dans les griffes de l'araignée (In the Spider's Grip) / Les yeux du dragon (Eyes of the Dragon) / Amour noir et amour blanc (Love in Black and White) / Fétiche Mascotte (The Mascot) / Fétiche prestidigitateur (The Ringsmater) / Fétiche se marie (The Mascot's Marriage) / Fétiche en voyage de noces (The Navigator) / Fétiche et les sirens (The Mascott and the Mermaids) / Le Lion et le Moucheron (The Lion and the Fly) / Le Rat de ville et le Rat des champs (The Town Rat and the Country Rat) / Les Grenouilles qui demandent un roi (The Frogs who Desired a King (Frogland)) / La Cigale et la fourmi (The Ant and the Grasshopper) / Le Lion Devenu Vieux (The Old Lion) / Comment naît et s'anime une ciné-marionnett (How Puppet Cinema is Born and Animated)

The Scarecrow (1921)
A drunken gardener is challenged to a poker match by agents of the Devil; replete with location shots in Hades of the Devil giving orders to his agents on Earth.
Midnight Wedding (1921)
The film is a delightful tale of a spoiled wedding between child's toys which shows Starewicz's typical style of making amusing films appropriate for children without much sentimentality. As in many of his other films, his daughter Nina plays the role of the child.
The Voice of the Nightingale (1925)
A partly-animated short film, a fairy-tale-like telling of why the nightingale only sings at night. A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the nightingale and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not made to be captive but free. In return for its freedom, the nightingale loans the child its voice for use in the daytime, which is why nightingales only sing at night.
The Queen Of The Butterflies (1927)
A little girl acts out her role as Queen of the Butterflies until a spider arrives to complicate the situation.
***ATTENTION***The film is Silent with some brief French audio***This film Fetish 33-12 is the original version designed by Irene and Ladislas Starewitch before undergoing cuts by distributors. In 1933 Irene and Ladislas Starewitch produced and directed a film about 1000 meters long entitled intially 'LS 18'. Under pressure from distributors length has been greatly reduced, the film became Fetish Mascot, about 600 meters, distributed in 1934 , the first episode of a series. In 1954 L. Starewitch designed Hangover using images from 'LS 18', which were not included in Fetish Mascot. Just recently reconstruction of the original film was started by using multiple copies of Fetish Mascot distributed in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and negatives of Hangover, preserved in the archives of L. and I. Starewitch. In 2012 'LS 18' has found its length and assembly from 1933, hence the title Fetish 33-12.
The Claws of the Spider (1920)
In Dans les Griffes de l' araignée (The Claws of the Spider), Wladyslaw Starewicz shows the tragic end that awaits a fly who decides to leave his village for the bright lights of Paris.
Eyes of the Dragon (1925)
A prince, a princess, a dragon ... and of course a fabulous treasure, buried deep in a cave! A fairy tale in ancient China.
Love in Black and White (1928)
The misadventures of a traveling theatrical company, as the actors attempt to put on a show while romantic rivalries erupt backstage.
Fetish Adventures brings together five films made between 1933 and 1937 by Ladislas Starevich and her eldest daughter Irene.
The Mascot (1934)***French audio & Silent with English subtitles***
A toy stuffed dog has just been sewn together when it hears a young child ask for an orange. The child's mother explains that they have no money, and so she cannot buy any oranges. The dog is then packed up along with a box full of other toys to be sold, but it soon winds up in the street. The dog picks up an orange from a curbside stand, and hopes to take it home to the child. But that night, before the dog can get back to the child's home, it must face a series of strange and frightening adventures.
The Ringsmater (1934)***Silent***
Puppet cartoon: whilst child sleeps, Duffy a dog magically creates a circus for her.
The Mascott's Wedding (1935)***Silent***
The Navigator (1936)***Silent***
A dog's shipboard honeymoon voyage takes a turn for the worse when a fierce storm hits the ship.
The Mascott and the Mermaids (1937)***Silent***

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