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Vladislav Starevich (August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965), was a Russian and Frenchstop-motionanimator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film (i.e.

The Beautiful Lukanida (1912)). He also used insects and other animals as protagonists of his films.

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(His name can also be spelled Starevitch, Starewich and Starewitch.)

Early career

Władysław Starewicz was born in Moscow, Russia to Polish parents (father Aleksander Starewicz from Surviliškis near Kėdainiai and mother Antonina Legęcka from Kaunas, both from "neighbourhood nobility", in hiding after the failed Insurrection of 1863 against the Tsarist Russian domination), and had lived in Lithuania which at that time was a part of the Russian Empire.

The boy was raised by his grandmother in Kaunas, then a capital of Kovno Governorate. He attended Gymnasium in Dorpat